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Valyar · March 10th, 2018, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by kbs666

This is likely where your lack of tags comes from. You used text snippets in places where tags would have worked fine. Any time a particular thing has a sharply limited number of possible options it makes sense to define a tag instead of using a text snippet. I don't know Dark Heresy but in D&D terms things like alignment or spell school should be tags.

Spot on. I was not "fluent" enough in Realm Works when I started, I was learning on the run, so I used snippets instead of tags. At that time it looked right and I was progressing well by doing bulk upload with the CSV Importer tool. Now I think the tags would have been the best choice for some snippets...

Anyway, sometimes you can't plan that much ahead and you have to get back to the drawing board and waste few hours to re-work things. I will have to figure out a quick way to change a snippet to a tag without pain and suffering.

I am excited.

Bidmaron · March 10th, 2018, 12:49 PM

I don’t think there is any easy way to do that through the interface. However I think it should be possible to make an export, use a converter tool, and then reimport with snippets that are text converted to tags

Valyar · March 10th, 2018, 01:16 PM

Any specific converter tool? Or we are talking theoretically?

Bidmaron · March 10th, 2018, 02:21 PM

You said you were a scripter. Such a tool does not currently exist

Farling · March 11th, 2018, 12:47 AM

An export of your topics/articles and then using an online XML to CSV converter might work for you.

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Originally Posted by Vargr

Most programming these days are in VBA.

I don't think this is true.

kbs666 · March 11th, 2018, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Farling

I don't think this is true.

Not remotely true.

Parody · 05:34 AM

I suspect Vargr was saying that most of the programming Vargr has done recently is VBA, not that VBA is what most programmers are doing. (The context was an answer to "Are you a computer pro, Vargr?" not anything about the industry.)

Vargr · March 14th, 2018, 08:05 AM

@Parody:

You are right; I was referring to myself - as in "now-a-days I do most of my programming in VBA" (Excel, to be exact).

It would be scary indeed if all the software out there was done in VBA...

Dark Lord Galen · March 14th, 2018, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Vargr

@Parody:

You are right; I was referring to myself - as in "now-a-days I do most of my programming in VBA" (Excel, to be exact).

It would be scary indeed if all the software out there was done in VBA...

LOL yea but wouldn't Microsoft love that!!....

Parody · March 14th, 2018, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Lord Galen

LOL yea but wouldn't Microsoft love that!!....

Maybe, but for VBA (not VB, not VBScript, not VB.Net or .Net in general, but VBA) to be dominant it would require an alternate history of the industry branching back in the Windows 9x days. Microsoft would have had to force scriptability on applications and make it much easier and cheaper to implement than the VBA libraries they offered at the time. Even then, I don't see how it'd beat out HTML/CSS/JavaScript. (You might have VBScript instead of JavaScript in this alternate history, I suppose.)

Current Microsoft wants everyone to use .Net languages and Azure services for their web applications and has been fumbling on consumer devices since Windows 8. The recent direction of going back to other architectures with a revamped shell, emulated Win32 on non-x86 devices, and similar may work if they stick with it, though I think it doesn't bode well for desktop users. (It's not always fun being the niche.)

Bidmaron Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 468 March 10th, 2018, 12:49 PM	I don’t think there is any easy way to do that through the interface. However I think it should be possible to make an export, use a converter tool, and then reimport with snippets that are text converted to tags
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Valyar Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 347 March 10th, 2018, 01:16 PM	Any specific converter tool? Or we are talking theoretically? The past is a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back.
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Parody Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Rochester, MN Posts: 1,516 March 11th, 2018, 05:23 AM	I suspect Vargr was saying that most of the programming Vargr has done recently is VBA, not that VBA is what most programmers are doing. (The context was an answer to "Are you a computer pro, Vargr?" not anything about the industry.) Michael Miller ESG Labs - Realm Works Locations App - Convention Events Last edited by Parody; March 11th, 2018 at 05:34 AM.
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