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That said, I have experience with parsing & transforming data, as well as automatically scraping websites to get said data, so if either of you need anything specific, I might be able to help. Separately, I'd like to suggest reaching out to Nethys of the eponymous archives. I believe he already has a clean, sanitized, and source-linked database of everything that's CUP- and/or OGL-legal (possibly up to last summer) which he powers the website from. If he were willing, it should be trivial for him to export it in a form that you can easily apply your transform tools to. |
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I guess I'm trying to figure out why all of these elaborate import and export options are being created by users to move data; is there no plan to allow spreadsheet/csv imports at some point? This seems like basic functionality that is missing or is this intentional?
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Right now, they're focusing on the bread and butter of RW, the content market. They're also working on custom calendars, which has been a long-promised feature that initially gave them more trouble than they expected. I can't tell you what they might or might not do in the future, but in the meantime, some of us are trying to do what we can to facilitate things. Farling has has his XSLT script, which I'm sure works fine, but I like to do things a little differently than others sometimes, so I'm working on my own script as well. And that's really as far as it goes right now. We don't know all the future plans, but those of us who can help fill in some gaps right now are sharing what we can do. My script still has a some issues I have to figure out (not the least of which is that it expects an empty realm), and my aim is to iron those out, expand it for other types of topics (not just spells), and make it more modular and flexible. If LWD or someone else comes up with something better by then, so be it. But for now, I'll do what I can, and I'm excited that, though Rob may wish to discuss some concerns and coordinate some things, he is nonetheless supportive about our projects and our willingness to share. |
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RW's XML setup lets LWD define how you can tell Realm Works what each piece of data means. That allows interested folks to write the glue that goes between some set of data and how they want it to appear in RW. This flexibility comes at the cost of ease of use for the person who has to write the glue and perhaps for those using the results. There's also the ongoing side issue of duplication of effort for this particular system. If you were planning on incorporating purchased products in your own realms, you'll probably want to wait until those purchased products are available and the folks doing conversion have fixed their converters to make Articles/Topics that will integrate well. (Alternatively, you may decide to just buy LWD's version of them.) Last edited by Parody; February 23rd, 2017 at 10:10 PM. |
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There are other columns where you need the plain text, and other fields where maybe you need a tag for the basic data but also need an annotation added to appear next to the tag. The number of cases is so vast that no single tool could possibly provide this import capability without a mass of options to select between. For this reason, the task may as well be left to a separate tool (or collection of scripts) to perform this task. (Note that exporting a CSV from Excel as XML doesn't work very well, since it cheats when skipping blank cells in the grid making it more difficult to parse the resulting XML.) |
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Is there any text you could put into blank cells that could then be stripped out in Notepad++ or similar?
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OK my issue is, i bought some books for pathfinder with 'drawbacks'... on my PCs i made up i can not see these new features... but on new PC;s i can... please help me so i know how to import all my stuff so regardless, NEW or old PC's the data will be there...
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FWIW: When you purchase new products for a system in Hero Lab and then open an existing character portfolio, you'll need to reconfigure the character (Character/Configure Hero or Ctrl-K) and enable the new products if you want to have them available for that character. Make sure you save afterwards. Last edited by Parody; February 24th, 2017 at 11:23 PM. |
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is an general import of pathfinder monsters items etc already available now since we can import and export data now in realmworks? |
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