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[TCArknight]

Howdy!

I have a question regarding sorting that I'm drawing a blank on.

I have a sortset for display with a choosesortset entry:

  <sortset id="AdvSort" name="Choose Advantages">
    <sortkey isfield="no" id="PointCost"/>
    <sortkey isfield="no" id="_Name_"/>
    </sortset>

Each Advantage may or may not also have a NatCost field to represent the reduced cost of an Advantage for heros from a particular Nationality. When a hero is of that nationality, I'd like the Advantage to show based on the NatCost rather than the PointCost tag.

Is there a simple way to do this? If not, could replacing the value for the PointCost tag with the NatCost value work best?

Thanks!
TC

 

[Mathias]

I don't think there's a way to do this, because whether you want to use the NatCost or the PointCost varies depending on tags on the hero, and a sortset has no way to detect those - it can only act on tags and fields on the individual things. And because this is a choose sort set, you can't run any scripts to do any processing, in order to calculate the value of some final field value.

 

[TCArknight]

Hmmmmm.....

What if there was an ActCost.# tag which was assigned early based on the Nation comparison? By default, it would be assigned with the same value as the PointCost tag, but if the Nation matches, it's assigned with that value? And the sort set would use it instead?

 

[Mathias]

You are sorting THINGS, not picks here. That means scripts can't make alterations to the fields and tags on those things before they're added to the character.