Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,690
|
Quote:
Adding a field to the DB, a dropdown after the suffix and adding a bit of logic that all defaults to "global" constrains anyone who doesn't want to use it how? Look, I like this product and use it a lot and am one of your biggest boosters but I am also not just a programmer with 25 years experience. I'm a project manager with more than a decade in this sort of thing. I'm used to making end users happy and know the difference between something that sounds easy and something that is easy. You may not want to make the change for other reasons, I know of several, further cluttering the UI and the difficulty of explaining the concept to users are two, but bashing an honest suggestion over an area that is going to keep coming up once the CM goes live seems like a poor plan. my Realm Works videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZU...4DwXXkvmBXQ9Yw |
|
#21 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 781
|
Quote:
Exmortis aka "Scott" RW - Needs Rez spell HL - Game Master/Designer RPG Tools - Campaign Cartographer 3+, D20 Pro Ultimate Real Life - IT Security Hobby - Anything on water or ATV |
|
#22 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,690
|
Now I'm even more confused.
Why type all this? Surely every module you do has a map with all the locations marked on it already right? When I do something like this the first thing I do is get the map in RW and put pins into all the locations and create topics from there. I assume you're working from either the PDF or physical modules so that should be no problem. Once you do that you shouldn't need all of that "loc2 copy copy copy copy copy copy" stuff. It seems like you're making more work for yourself, IMO. You create all the blank topics, then you have to rename them, then you have to go and add your pins to the map later assuming I understand your workflow. my Realm Works videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZU...4DwXXkvmBXQ9Yw |
#23 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 1,147
|
@kbs666: I seem to work opposite from you. For me the map is always last thing I work on as it's the least essential. I've found it to be a lot faster to focus on specific tasks in series iteratively rather than trying to do it all at once for every topic. It takes me several passes but in the end it's more consistent and I'm not burned out half-way through anymore. I'm just one data point but I'm sure there are others that do it differently from both of us.
|
#24 |
Senior Member
Lone Wolf Staff
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 691
|
@exmortis
I am unable to reproduce your linking issue in the latest build, and it sounds like you're no longer experiencing it either. Is this correct? Additionally, are you still experiencing the text selection behavior you described on page 1? I attempted a basic reproduction of that issue and it seems to work just fine for me. If you're still seeing this behavior, there must be more specific steps that I need to do. Perhaps I will need a copy of your database and you can point me to some problem data. |
#25 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 781
|
Quote:
It happens after I have copied and pasted the text from another source (web, PDF, word etc.) into a new topic, then select text to apply formatting. If you were to take any of the topics in my database and select text to apply formatting I know it will work. But what I have happen is on a new topic, and it happens the first time I select and want to apply formatting, once it works, it never fails. But the 1 in 3 new topics will have the issue I defined. I have gotten so used to it, I now know instantly when it will fail. and I simply use the undo, and select the text again. Rinse, repeat until it works. Then in that specific topic it always works. The linking crash has now I believe gone away, I have handed about 20 new topics, all with a manual link or more and not a single crash. Exmortis aka "Scott" RW - Needs Rez spell HL - Game Master/Designer RPG Tools - Campaign Cartographer 3+, D20 Pro Ultimate Real Life - IT Security Hobby - Anything on water or ATV |
|
#26 |
Senior Member
Lone Wolf Staff
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 691
|
@exmortis can you perhaps provide me with a problematic source then? I am attempting to paste in text from a pdf, then splitting it up into snippets and formatting it as you describe, and don't see any problems.
Which option are you using with the special paste? Unformatted text? Unformatted text as a single paragraph? |
#27 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 781
|
@kbs666:
My work flow does not include map pins. Why? Good question. My entire design for this was the idea that none, and I mean none, of these works would ever be used in their original form. I just want them initially in that form, so no mater what the future holds, I have a common base. It is original. I play pathfinder and always in a realm of my design, I have not GM'd a canned world since I was in my 20s. So, knowing this, that I will play these in a custom game world (Daede or Telon) and not in 1st, 2nd, 3rd or beyond D&D, but Pathfinder. They will get reskinned. On top of that they will not happen on the same world map as they come. I will adapt the adventure to my custom gamer work, ToEE will not happing in Greyhawk, it will be reskinned as the Fallen Temple of Vol Tuniel in the region of The Wardship of the Sleeping Moon, on the continent of Thestra (as an example). So, since so much will change, it is best to leave that when I import the realm and skin it. many of the things I do are for linking in the future. Like AEIOU I work from the individual locations out for my adventures. I work from the initial location out for my game worlds. I will pin the map when I reskin the adventure. The other thing is organization for import. I want to import it all under one category main topic, not spread all over the categories. I work with RW much the same way you worked with the books in the past. This all came about when they made the massive change with views and took away the completely separate World Almanac and Story Almanac. It really caused me some serious grief, and it took many hours of work to unscrew the outcome. So when I decided to archive my favorite adventures into RW as a realm, I thought long and hard about how I (since it is designed for me to use) want to import and reskin for use in any world, any rule system I may be playing in the future. You work the map to the locations, I work the locations to the map. Patato vs potato. Exmortis aka "Scott" RW - Needs Rez spell HL - Game Master/Designer RPG Tools - Campaign Cartographer 3+, D20 Pro Ultimate Real Life - IT Security Hobby - Anything on water or ATV |
#28 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 781
|
Quote:
I can confirm it was an issue with cut and paste information from: The Temple of Elemental Evil Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil Against the Slave Lords I simply Select, copy, paste (CTRL+ALT+V) to a snippet in a new topic (i.e. no text just title). I then copy, plate, break text up between many snippets. Then I select and format. This where random text gets formatted, not what I select. I will try and see if I can capture this somehow. I can provide the PDF(s) if you like? Exmortis aka "Scott" RW - Needs Rez spell HL - Game Master/Designer RPG Tools - Campaign Cartographer 3+, D20 Pro Ultimate Real Life - IT Security Hobby - Anything on water or ATV |
|
#29 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Greater London, UK
Posts: 2,623
|
Quote:
|
|
#30 |
|
|