Couple of questions - Page 2

Mathias · July 26th, 2016, 11:50 AM

I'd use a single tag group, and use it only for this purpose. Then, you can write it in a simpler form:

Code:

(SkillTable.1 | !SkillTable.?)

So that requires that it either have the tag for table 1, or not have any table's tag at all.

Or even simpler if there's no way to get a skill other than by adding it to one of these tables, meaning every skill that could be shown here will have exactly one of these autotags:

Code:

SkillTable.1

ShadowWalker · July 26th, 2016, 10:06 PM

So I added SkillTable.1 .2 .3 etc to each of the tables and the problem now is that the chooser is empty of any skills.

Mathias · July 27th, 2016, 12:27 AM

This is why I shouldn't answer these questions quickly - list expression tests for that autotag, candidate expression does not, and should not inherit from the list expression. I'm sorry about that, I was just thinking candidate, because you can usually work with just that on most tables.

ShadowWalker · July 27th, 2016, 02:42 AM

So I put in the <candidate> with nothing in <list>
(SkillPools.1 | !SkillPools.?) and the choose list coming up empty
I've also tried SkillPools.1 with the same results, and empty choose list
Should there be something in <list>?

ShadowWalker · July 27th, 2016, 06:22 AM

I looked at the description of <list> and <candidate> on the wiki and they both talk about what gets listed in the choosetemplate for the user to pick from.
What I'm trying to do is to filter out items on the showtemplate.

from the above image. Notice was added to the table in the middle and what I want is for it to not show up in the two other tables.

Mathias · July 27th, 2016, 07:53 AM

Could you show me the entire candidate and list expressions for this table, please?

ShadowWalker · 08:36 AM

Table 1

Code:

      <candidate>
        <![CDATA[
          (SkillPools.1 | !SkillPools.?)
        ]]>
      </candidate>

Table 2

Code:

      <candidate>
        <![CDATA[
          (SkillPools.2 | !SkillPools.?)
        ]]>
      </candidate>

Table 3

Code:

      <candidate>
        <![CDATA[
          (SkillPools.3 | !SkillPools.?)
        ]]>
      </candidate>

There is nothing currently in <list>. I've tried putting things in there as well.
The skills component has both had and not had an indentity for SkillPools

At some point, once this is working, I need to add a !Skill.Hide into the mix as some skills are not supposed to be addable by the user.

Mathias · July 27th, 2016, 08:43 AM

Switch all of those to being list expressions, not candidate expressions.

Then, you'll add a new candidate expression, which is simply !Skill.Hide

P.S. There's a Hide group already defined in the skeleton files, which is intended for use in hiding things like this. I believe Hide.Skill is one of the tags that's already been defined in that group.

ShadowWalker · July 27th, 2016, 09:46 AM

It is. It's where I got Hide.Skill from.
I added it to those skills I wanted hidden, but it was still showing them so I figured I needed to put something in to do so myself.

ShadowWalker · July 27th, 2016, 09:50 AM

It is working. Thank you very much.

ShadowWalker Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 243 July 26th, 2016, 10:06 PM	So I added SkillTable.1 .2 .3 etc to each of the tables and the problem now is that the chooser is empty of any skills.
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Mathias Senior Member Lone Wolf Staff Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 13,213 July 27th, 2016, 12:27 AM	This is why I shouldn't answer these questions quickly - list expression tests for that autotag, candidate expression does not, and should not inherit from the list expression. I'm sorry about that, I was just thinking candidate, because you can usually work with just that on most tables.
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