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Adding Journal Entries to multiple heroes

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Just Pete

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I just found the ability to import multiple heroes into one portfolio, and was wondering if there is a way to add a journal entry to more than one (or all) heroes at a time.

This would really simplify adding XP gained by the group.
 
Basically he is wanting to combine several journals in to one across several characters in one portfolio. So XP, Gold and the actual Journal itself across several characters in one entry. Entering the information once and then making go across several characters
 
There isnt a method of doing this that i know of. I think it might become too problematic as well. if one char has several journal entries, would you merge all of them or have some type of filter? by the time you did this for all the chars involved it might hev been easier just to email the data to a central person.
 
chiefweasel said:
There isnt a method of doing this that i know of. I think it might become too problematic as well. if one char has several journal entries, would you merge all of them or have some type of filter? by the time you did this for all the chars involved it might hev been easier just to email the data to a central person.
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The Idea is that in many campaigns the Journal Entry is identical so what you put into one is put into another so being able to just input it once and "export" it to all the PCs in the campaign would be a great capability.
 
Yeah that's pretty much it.

What I envision is, when there are multiple heroes in a profile, a menu option to add a journal entry that would have check-boxes (or a similar selection ability) to choose which heroes the journal entry would be added to.

Then, when exporting a single hero, those journal entries would go along with them.

Mebbe in a future update...
 
Is this still not an available feature? I'm trying to add entries for the last few sessions to six of my PCs and it sure would be easier to add a few journal entries instead of a few entries times six...
 
Ualaa said:
Copy and Paste works elsewhere within HL.
I would assume it would work within a journal too.
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The problem is that the Journal entries include multiple separate fields .. for gold, for silver, for copper, for platinum, for experience, for the text notes, for the parts of the date. And the text notes requires opening a separate editing window.

Copy-and-Paste is not a good solution for repeating the same entries in 5 to 10 fields, especially if all characters are in the same portfolio. It is slightly better for copy-and-paste if they are in separate portfolios, I guess, but not much of an improvement.
 
Worst case, until LW has a new feature to support this, you could edit the XML inside the portfolio directly. Kind of an ugly hack, though.

A script could take some identifier (such as a tuple of hero name, game date, and real date) and find the relevant element in one XML doc and copy it to the others in the same portfolio (if it's not already there).

Putting a GUI front end on it would be possible, but probably not portable unless done in Java (too much work for a portable GUI in Perl or Python or Ruby; maybe Go or JavaScript though?).
 
It's what I've been doing.
Not that it is ideal, but a bit better than each one over and over.

Basically pick a field, enter a value, copy it.
Paste on each of the other characters.
Come back to the first, and enter a new value in the next field, copy and then enter it.
Go to the other portfolios, etc.

I'm using real date.
Name of journal entry (Session xx).
Not campaign date or an entry within the journal itself.
 
This is something I addressed in a reply in another thread.. suggesting a new hero type for "Party" that might be a basis for some "group operations" like journal postings.
 
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