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Hi folks,
I've managed to put together something which will take your existing Obsidian Portal information and migrate the data into Realm Works. The Basic Process 1) Go to Obsidian Portal and download a backup of your campaign. 2) Run my converter. 3) Import the generated .rwexport file into your RW realm. More Detail Step 1 - Obsidian Portal 1 - go the web page for your obsidian portal campaign. 2 - select "settings" in the left panel. 3 - select "Advanced" in the page's menu. 4 - select "download backup" Step 2 - Run my converter 1 - Download the convert.ps1 (a powershells script) 2 - Download the ob2rw-xsl1.xslt file (a XSL version 1.0 specification) 3 - Put these two files in the same folder (I use "Documents\Realm Works\Scripting". 3 - Right click on the convert.ps1 and select "Run with PowerShell" 4 - In the file selector dialog that appears, select the .ZIP file that was downloaded from obsidian portal Step 3 - import into realm works 1 - open an existing realm 2 - select import and choose the ".rwexport" file which was created using my converter 3 - tidy up the information inside Realm Works (optional) Extra Information 1 - The conversion process creates 5 new topic categories to handle the imported information (adventure logs, characters, items, wiki pages, forum posts) 2 - Pictures are not exported as part of the Obsidian Portal backup file, so they are not imported into RealmWorks 3 - the current version of the scripts will NOT work to re-import updates later (this is a future evolution). Access to the files: Download the ZIP file from https://github.com/farling42/RealmWo...elease_0.1.zip, then unzip the contents. Known Issues - Links are not converted, and remain as blue underlined text when RealmWorks automatically unlinks them. - No images are transferred, and links to images are not transferred yet. - Importing a subsequent OB backup creates duplicate topics. Last edited by Farling; October 15th, 2017 at 11:45 PM. |
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That is very cool! If I used OP I'd be one happy chica Thanks for sharing your work with the community =D
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From memory, Obsodian Portal does not support this so no. Once someone moves from Obsidian Portal to RW they will never want to go back! But yeah I understand the benefit this would bring. We could have a work around for player Web access until Web view arrives.
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You could take the EightBitz's HTML printing script and modify it to output separate HTML documents for each topic, and so build a web page to emulate your realm, if you really felt that you needed web right now.
Last edited by Farling; January 20th, 2017 at 02:14 PM. |
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That's eminently doable, if someone feels compelled.
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Thanks.
Awesome Job. Now if Realm Works would just allow me to use Import/Export on D & D 5th edition, I could actually use Realm Works and start working on my campaigns. |
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Obsidian Portal only allows a backup of the data to be made. There is NO facility to import data back into Obsidian Portal (even from the backup file).
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Apart from having an existing Realm, is there anything else you need to do in Realm Works?
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