A collection groups related papers inside a project.

Prerequisites

• A Whitepapper account
• At least one project

What a collection contains

• Papers
• A project-scoped unique slug
• Visibility (isPublic)

A collection belongs to exactly one project.

Visibility

Collection visibility is controlled by isPublic.

• Public: collection papers can be publicly accessible when parent project is public.
• Private: collection papers are not publicly accessible.

Propagation rules:

• Public collection sets non-archived papers to published
• Private collection sets non-archived papers to draft
• Archived papers remain archived

Slug

Collection slug is used in Dev API queries:

GET /dev/collection?slug=my-collection

Rules:

• Unique per project
• Auto-generated from collection name
• Duplicate manual updates fail with conflict

See Slug collision checks.

Description

• Max length: 50,000 characters
• Returned in Dev API responses
• Displayed in project collection listings

Limits

• Max 10 collections per project
• Error on limit breach: Collection limit reached (10) for this project.

Publishing behavior for papers in collections

A new paper inside a collection inherits collection visibility:

• Public collection: starts as published
• Private collection: starts as draft