RealmWorks CSV Import Tool

[Farling]

Version 1.11 has just been released.

If you have a directory full of HeroLab portfolios for all your favourite NPCs, then you can now load those portfolios as part of the CSV import.

The version extends the functionality of version 1.10 so that you can load data from individual files for any of the following field types: Portfolio, Statblock, Rich_Text, PDF, Audio, Video, HTML, Foreign.

(Only Portfolio has been specifically tested, but it should work for any of the other snippet types too.)

The Portfolio snippet should be a file with the .por extension.
Statblock snippets should be a file with the .rtf extension.

[Guyanthalas]

Sorry for getting back on this so late. Good thing (maybe) that Bishop had a similar problem. Nice work resolving it!

I downloaded the newest version and went to load my CSV file. It only shows one line from the CSV.

After messing around with the file for some time I think it has to do with the last column having " in it (long text description field). I added a new blank column to the end of the file and that seems to fix the import (all lines are showing up).

[Farling]

Originally Posted by Guyanthalas

After messing around with the file for some time I think it has to do with the last column having " in it (long text description field).

There was a bug in the CSV reader which didn't handle " at the end of a line properly.

[Farling]

V1.12 has just been uploaded, and it fixes a bug where " at the end of a line was not being handled properly.

[Acenoid]

noooo, i just downloaded the previous version. Now I have to download it again

[Bidmaron]

Well, you could always stay with the version that has the bug....

[Farling]

Originally Posted by Acenoid

noooo, i just downloaded the previous version. Now I have to download it again

At some point I will work on the installer so that it offers an upgrade solution.

[DickNervous]

Farling,

I was playing with the ability to import images, and the one thing I noticed is that you check for a physical file, which is great. Except that I was trying to use a web service that generates an image upon request, so there is no file to check for.

Any way that you could make it so that it would work with a URL. An example URL is https://travellermap.com/api/poster?...ma&style=print.

Thanks!

[Farling]

Version 1.14 has just been released which will convert URLs within a body of text into a clickable link within Realm Works.

The link detection might not be perfect, due to me having to find a suitable "regular expression" which satifies most possible combinations of URL patterns.

(DickNervous, this doesn't affect your request, which I'll look at another day.)

[Farling]

Version 1.16 has just been released to satisfy DickNervous's request (I used your example URL for testing).

When importing images, it is now possible to specify a web URL for the location of the image as an alternative to specifying a local file.

Note that the web URL must point directly at the image to be loaded (in techno-babble the http type must be "image/<something>").

Since web URL image fetching can be slow, the GENERATE button will now be disabled while the file generation is taking place. Once file generation is complete (or fails), the GENERATE button will return to being enabled.