[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by chiefweasel

for #4, I can create a new folder on the website. What xml files would go in there?

It is actually just one file and it is what will let Hero Lab know where the import files are located when using the Secondary Update URL(Settings->Basic Settings->Specify Secondary Updates URL....) This easy to use feature built into HL will cause a new Download option to appear from within HL. So that the .hl file gets auto downloaded and installed.

Here is an example of the xml file would look like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document signature="Lone Wolf Updates" version="1">
<update
    name="d20 Community 10/4/2010"
    date="2010/10/04:1319"
    size="900"
    description="First release of Lawful_g's awesome d20 data set" uniqueid="0" filetype="3"
download="http://www.cheeseweasel.net/herolab/d20_20101004.hl"
    website="http://www.cheeseweasel.net/"
    companyurl="http://www.cheeseweasel.net/"
    priority="99" major="1" minor="0" patch="1" 
    folder="Pathfinder" special="" dynamic=""    
    />
</document>

So the Name/Description line is what a person would see form within HL. The download tag tells HL where to try and download the .hl file from. The website link tell HL where to open the web browser to if the user wants to download the file manually instead. The companyurl tells HL where to open a web browser to if the user asks to view company info.

I also think one person needs to be a focal point for source documents. A versioning system might help as well, that way we will know what the latest files are. There should also be a test team. and all changes for our sites go through them and get approved by them first. that way is any errors exist they will be spotted and can be corrected before the files go on to the user community.

I agree with this of course. Having some type of QA involved would be really nice. Two people said yes before in the Pathfinder forums. Will need to ask them if they want to help with this also. To do testing they would just need to run d20 in demo mode as the editor still works and one can get stuff to compile. They really don't care that they can't print or save characters for this.

Be good if they are interested to get them in on the ground floor.