Realm Works 1.0.30, 1.0.31, and 1.0.32 Now Available – With Custom Views

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Ask and you shall receive! As users introduce more and more topics into their realms, it can become cumbersome to sift through them all, especially when in the middle of a game session. This release introduces a solution – custom views.

With this update, all topics are now contained within the World Almanac, and the Story Almanac has been converted to a custom view that contains all the topics it previously held. Additional custom views can be created and assigned topics/articles in any combination you choose, with the option to add a few of the most frequently used views to the ribbon bar. Complete details on custom views can be found here on our forums and within Realm Works. To access the overview within the product, click on one of the small buttons to the right of the Mechanics Reference button on the ribbon bar and select either the Create View or Manage Views options. Within the dialog that appears, click on the help icon in the upper right.

While we’re thrilled to make custom views available, especially as this should improve users’ experience with Realm Works, we were unable to get one last aspect into this release – specifically, the ability to share custom views with players. Once this piece is implemented, GMs will be able to add the topics/articles they choose to shared views and players will be able to see the revealed topics within them.

Unfortunately, a key member of the team is going to be out of the country for the next couple of weeks, and we did not want to delay this update until after his return. We chose to move forward with the release as is, because we know custom views are going to be an invaluable benefit to the vast majority of our users.

Just like for GMs, all revealed topics are grouped under the World Almanac when viewed by players. For GMs with many revealed topics, this means that players may have a long list of topics to navigate through until they determine which topics they consider important enough to place into custom views of their own. If you’re a GM that currently relies on the Story Almanac to keep things filtered for your players, that capability will disappear until we can introduce sharing of custom views. For the time being, you may want to create a list of links to important topics from within your realm’s Starting Point topic. This will allow your players to go to one place to find and navigate to the most important content. They can then add these topics to a custom view of their own very easily.

We understand that this scenario is less than ideal, which is why shared custom views will be included in the next feature release following the team member's return. In the meantime, we look forward to hearing what custom views GMs are finding most useful in their realms.

Additional Enhancements and Changes
In addition to the custom views, we’ve also included a number other enhancements and changes in this new version of Realm Works. To see the full list, please take a look at the Release Notes available within the product. To keep up with the latest Realm Works news, make sure to “like” Realm Works on Facebook, “follow” @lonewolfdevel on Twitter, and/or “follow” Lone Wolf Development on Google+.

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Realm Works 1.0.31
A new update was released tonight (03/27/15), which should address a number of the issues that users ran into with the last update. If you still have issues following this new update, please update your support ticket by sending a follow-up email or send us a new bug report. To see the full list of fixes, please take a look at the Release Notes available within the product.

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Realm Works 1.0.32
Another new update was released tonight (03/31/15), which addresses a few remaining issues with all the new logic, including a sync problem that a few users have encountered. If you still have issues following this new update, please update your support ticket by sending a follow-up email or send us a new bug report. To see the full list of fixes, please take a look at the Release Notes available within the product.