Malady / Afflictions not showing ID as prefix.

[EightBitz]

I submitted a bug report for this. I was just curious if anyone else is seeing this issue or if I'm missing something simple.

First of all, this isn't specific to the new release. I noticed this
in earlier versions as well.

I'm creating a hierarchy of contained articles.
Savage Worlds
- Combat
-- Initiative
-- Movement
-- Actions
-- Attacks
-- Shaken

Savage Worlds is a source article, and a containing aritcle for
Combat. Combat is a Gameplay article as a containing topic.
Initiative, Movement, Actions and Attacks are Gameplay articles under
Combat. Shaken is a malady/affliction aritcle.

I'm adding numeric identifiers to each article under Combat, to help
illustrate the flow of combat. That gives me:

Savage Worlds
- Combat
-- Initiative (01)
-- Movement (02)
-- Actions (03)
-- Attacks (04)
-- Shaken (05)

I click the Tool icon in the "Mechanics Ref" box, and select "Show
identifiers as prefix when available." That gives me:

Savage Worlds
- Combat
-- 01 - Initiative
-- 02 - Movement
-- 03 - Actions
-- 04 - Attacks
-- Shaken (05)

Notice the Shaken article was unaffected.

 

[Farling]

The developers want the prefix to work on some topic categories but not others. If you look at the category definition it will say if the identifier is a prefix or postfix.

 

[EightBitz]

The developers want the prefix to work on some topic categories but not others. If you look at the category definition it will say if the identifier is a prefix or postfix.

Is there a reason for that? Because what that ultimately means to me is that I have to avoid using the categories that don't behave according to the preferences I set. To me, that's still a flaw in the program.

 

[jkthomsen9]

I believe it is on the "todo" list to add prefix and postfix to all categories. The main focus at this point is to get player edition up and running. I am confident that these other issues will get more attention once the player edition, and store are up and running.

 

[EightBitz]

I believe it is on the "todo" list to add prefix and postfix to all categories. The main focus at this point is to get player edition up and running. I am confident that these other issues will get more attention once the player edition, and store are up and running.

OK. That's an answer I can understand. Thanks.

 

[Parody]

Don't forget you can use your own categories and set it to whatever you want.

 

[EightBitz]

Don't forget you can use your own categories and set it to whatever you want.

The only options I saw were "prefix" and "suffix". I didn't see anything that indicated user-configurable. However, it seems that for other topics, the user preference overrides the prefix or suffix setting in the category, just not for Malady (so far as I've noticed ... I haven't used every category yet).

So I could use my own category, but I don't know that it would make a difference. I'll play around with it later.