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f I understood, this is exactly how it's supposed to work. Let me explain:

Ever time you visit a page, that page's # is added to the "Previous Page List".

When you follow a "Previous Page" link, the last Page # on the list is removed and set as the destination page; the page with the Previous Page link is not added to the list.

So (and I think I'm repeating solo), if you have four pages: Page #1 through Page #4, and Pages #1-#3 have a link that links to the next page, and Pages #2-#4 has a "Previous Page" link, you should be able to go 1-2-3-4-3-2-1-2-3-4 all day long.

If it is not behaving that way, it is a bug. If you find it, please create a test case (in a game) and show it to me.

I question how many users would want this feature -- in fact, I'm sturrling to think of a use for it.

What if this feature was only avaible via scripting?

A General Reply to this type of question: to keep the UI simple and to save programming time. By making something only avaiable via script, there is no fields to add to any form.

still working on that -- take a read at this first article: http://chooseyourstory.com/help/articles/article.aspx?ArticleId=45

Havvy, UI == User Interface.

Today, if you wanted to use a Link Script to set the destination to the previous page (which u could obviously do with a normal selection), you would do : $DEST := @PREV

It would be easy for me to make it so you could do: $DEST := @PREV??, where ?? is a number representing how many pages to go back. So, let's say your "Previous Page List" is {1,2,9,8,11,23}, and you did $DEST := @PREV3. That would take you to page 8 and alter the list to be {1,2,9}.

HOWEVER -- I'm still not seeing why you would want this. IT seems risky to have. How do you know how many pages back to go? And if you knew that, wouldn't you know the actual page?

Did you know that, with scripting, you can "bookmark" a page? Here's how you would do it.

Link Script for "Enter The General Store": %LSPAGEID := $PAGEID

Link Script for "Leave the General Store": $DEST := "@P" + %LSPAGEID

Of course that's not included in the article, that's a more advanced concept.