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Foundry loose integration

A possible feature request has been rolling around in my mind for a while now, although I'm uncertain if it would work right or have issues.

Basically, I'm not aware of any components of Foundry's journal documents that aren't functional from within a compendium. While Foundry's scenes/maps are absolutely crippled in a compendium (all you get is the image), and actors and items are fully viewable but non-functional in a compendium, journals seem to work just fine from within a compendium.

My first concern is that I may be wrong, and there may actually be some journal functionality that isn't present in compendiums. If that is the case, the feature I'm thinking about may not be a good idea. (And in general, if anyone knows of elements of journals that don't work in compendiums, I'd appreciate hearing about it anyway.)

But, if journals *are* fully functional from within compendiums, I think it would be great if we could have an option to import journals directly into compendiums (including a shared compendium), rather than into the world. This would free up memory usage for those of us with enormous worlds we want to transfer to Foundry. And if we create new Foundry journals directly in the compendium, this would allow us to keep everything together.

Again, I don't know whether there are any problems with this proposed idea, but I wanted to suggest it, because it could be a good optional way to free up memory and consolidate organization.

Storing Items and Journals directly into Compendiums (with links pointing to the compendium entries) has been added in version 2.11.0
 
Storing Items and Journals directly into Compendiums (with links pointing to the compendium entries) has been added in version 2.11.0
Unfortunately, Sword_of_Spirit has just come across an issue with Foundry in that Notes on scenes can't link to journals stored in compendiums, so links in Smart Images won't create openable links in Foundry (although the label on the note will contain the correct name of the journal).
 
I just discovered something else. I'm not sure if it's a new problem, but I didn't notice on previous import experiments. Some of the snippets that have a blank value, but notes after (the dates at the top), aren't getting imported at all. I'm including screenshots of the RW and Foundry versions so you can see what I mean.
 

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