Using candidate within a table - Question

[JakeMilo]

Hello,

I have been playing around with the authoring kit for a while now but have hit a small issue with the module I'm knocking about.

I have used a <candidate></candidate> expression to limit the choices a person has with regards to abilities a career can select. The actual expression is very long as there is a large number of careers.

<candidate>(Ability.Almist & hero#Class.clAlist) | (Ability.Alleg & hero#Class.clAlleg) | (Ability.ArcMech & hero#Class.clArcMech) | ......etc </candidate>

However, the list is now so long that it literally crashes Hero Labs if I try to add any more to it.

Is there a way that I can pull the class tag off the Hero and use it in the candidate expression? This would reduce this massive expression down vastly to only a few lines.

 

[AndrewD2]

Create another tag to add to those abilities and then you can check for the tag on just those abilities.

 

[Mathias]

It sounds like you're trying to re-create the <needtag> element:

http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index.php5?title=TableDynamic_Element_(Data)

 

[JakeMilo]

Thanks.

Hello,

Thank you for your replies. It was the <needtag> that I was emulating and now I know it saves about 3000 characters of code. Joys of self teaching.

I found that this reference sorted out the rather bland wiki description.

http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=21806&page=35

If anyone else needs it.