Any Way to Create a Welcome Banner to Players When They Connect?

[d1wright]

Is there any way in FG to have a "Welcome Banner" pop up on a user's interface when they first connect to a session?

I know that anything in the chat window, maps, and notes shared prior to their connection won't be seen by the new user.

I'm thinking of perhaps a "Welcome Banner" keyword use in a Public Note title that pops it onto the screen automatically upon player connection.

A GM could create a note on the host machine and mark it Public prior to any player connections so that he could start up the server early and leave it unattended. A player would connect and immediately see:

"The Toothless Quest Welcome Banner!"
Game time starts at 8PM EST tonight.
Make sure to level up your characters prior to the session.
Also, remember to look at the loot list again. Someone has
to start carrying this stuff or I'm going to delete it.
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I feel this would be an invaluable feature and widely used.

And don't just take my word for it... Vote for the feature someone's already asked for!

https://fg2app.idea.informer.com/proj/?ia=73417

[Nylanfs]

You could make it part of the GM's background image. But yes this sounds like it could be useful.

[darrenan]

Just narrowing this discussion down to CoreRPG for the moment. Would it be possible to hook into the Desktop.onInit() function to look for a specifically named image in the campaign database (for instance "welcome_banner_image") and display it immediately after buildDesktop() is complete? This would require modifying desktop.lua a little bit, but it seems feasible. Then could you make it a little more flexible by allowing the campaign author to "tag" the specific image they want to display (add another piece of metadata to one of the campaign images to check for) rather than keying off of a hard-coded name? In any case, this doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem and would probably make a nice extension.

My guess is that this could be done in a similar way for other non-CoreRPG-derived rulesets as well.

[damned]

i think this would be a useful feature. I think a story entry might be most useful a it could link to any (all) other shared resources....
Should vote on it over at the wishlist...

[Trenloe]

Try this for a quick effort.

How to use:

Activate the "Message of the Day" extension.
Create a story entry called MOTD
Share it (this will make it public) - make sure the (P) icon appears to the right of the story entry list to show that it is public.

Then each time your players log in they will see the MOTD story entry. It will be displayed behind the "Character Selection" screen (there's nothing I can do about this).

Extension available here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?22369-Message-of-the-Day-%28MOTD%29-Extension

[Mask_of_winter]

Try this for a quick effort.

How to use:

Activate the "Message of the Day" extension.
Create a story entry called MOTD
Share it (this will make it public) - make sure the (P) icon appears to the right of the story entry list to show that it is public.

Then each time your players log in they will see the MOTD story entry. It will be displayed behind the "Character Selection" screen (there's nothing I can do about this).

I've been hoping for something like this for a long time. Thank you!
Is this for CoreRpg and CoreRpg-based only?

[Trenloe]

I've been hoping for something like this for a long time. Thank you!
Is this for CoreRpg and CoreRpg-based only?
I haven't put a ruleset tag against it so it can be selected in any ruleset, however it makes use of the CoreRPG OOBManager message handler so it will probably only work for CoreRPG and CoreRPG layered rulesets.

[d1wright]

The extension looks great. Being behind the character selection box isn't a problem as you can easily see it in the background.

Thanks for putting this together.

[Trenloe]

Made a proper place for the extension to live: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?22369-Message-of-the-Day-%28MOTD%29-Extension

[damned]

Well done. I think a PM to JPG with a request for inclusion into CoreRPG would be worth a shot!
Also I just had a peek at your code and lots of comments - yippee! Well done.