Documentation on the table importer

[amerigoV]

I saw it was updated. I played around with it and kinda works. But if I clicked on Columns/ranges in first row/column it did not do another. Is there documentation on the feature (did not see it in the wiki or a [?] button on the tables in FGU.

Example, a simple table like this:

Range,Column1,Column2,Column3
1-2,a,b,c
3-5,1,2,3
6-8,x,y,z

Using several variants, it never paid attention to the first row as header or the first column as ranges.(by variants - if I remove the ranges and just have header and content, it still treated the first row as table content, not as the header row).

[Using Win10, Savage Worlds ruleset]

[Moon Wizard]

This works for me. (See picture.)

Are you sure that you are in the Delimited mode with the correct options enabled for header row and range column?

Regards,
JPG

[Jiminimonka]

I know its a big wish - but having the table importer split into columns so you can copy a column of numbers into one, a column of texts into another etc,, would be super cool (and fast) when copying tables from PDFs etc. which sometimes allow you to select all the text in a column.

Currently you can paste in the numbers fine (rolls) fine, but then have to add commas and then add each result text one line at a time.

Still this is great, thanks

[Jiminimonka]

Here is one for ya, maybe its some stupid mistake at my end but.

Import delimited text
40865

Result
40866

[superteddy57]

I would put both from and to ranges in even if it's just one. Try '56-56,Iron Tamer'

[Jiminimonka]

I tried that, same result, strangely. I thought of it after I made the post and was in the process of editing then tested it and had the same output.

The only extension running is Author.

[superteddy57]

Ok, I tinkered with your list and would suggest using the simple style with that table.


Table D
01-08 Chemical factory
09-18 detonation of gravity
19-28 detonation of the black sphere
29-34 detonation greater
35-44 force shield projector
45-50 gas bomb
51-55 inferno wall projector
56-56 iron tamer
57-62 monoblade
63-65 nanite resistance
66-68 rampaging form
69-83 rejuvenator
84-95 skill boost
96-100 stim

We appreciate the feedback and will add it to the list to investigate why the delimited version doesn't go past 56

EDIT: I tried it again with the above, but also included the Range,Result and placing commas between the ranges and results. This produced a table correctly. I will investigate further, but this does produce the correct result.

[Jiminimonka]

Thanks, that worked.

Here is another one for you - tried this one and it changes the ranges - I will paste the list here, then show the results in an image.


Range,Arcana
1-1,Aggression eye
2–4,Analyzing shield
5–7,Armored flesh
8-8,Augmentation heptagon
9–10,Automated cook
11–13,Bounding boots
14-14,Brain fogger
15-15,Bread sprayer
16-16,Breathing field spinner
17-17,Burrowing boots
18–20,Carryall
21–22,Chameleon cloak
23-23,Clawed extremity
24-24,Cloak of finery
25–27,Cypher bag
28-28,Cypher stabilizing suit
29-29,Detextilizer
30–31,Drill spear
32-32,Drink distiller
33–34,Ecstasy paralyzer
35-35,Empath’s lenses
36-36,Empty field generator
37–40,Exploding arrow
41-41,Explorer’s gloves
42-42,Explorer’s lenses
43-43,Eye of mental contact
44–45,Filtration straw
46-46,Flesh ink pen
47–48,Food scanner
49–50,Food tube
51-51,Gauntlet of protection
52-52,Glowbrand
53-53,Golden aura cloak
54-54,Gravitevator
55–56,Healing sword
57-57,Helm of metal control
58–60,Hover belt
61–62,Hover square
63–65,Imager
66–67,Instant bridge
68–69,Launcher
70-70,Living conceptualization sheath
71-71,Mask of machine speaking
72-72,Mephitic staff
73–74,Mind imager
75–76,Molecular bonder
77-77,Net arrow
78-78,Otherwhere torch
79–80,Phasing piton
81–82,Plant jar
83–84,Psychic whistle
85–86,Recorder headband
87–89,Redlight clip
90-90,Self projector
91-91,Smoke ink pen
92-92,Spine of impact
93-93,Sunfire crown
94–96,Surgeon sphere
97–98,Suspensor belt
99-99,Toolbox blade
100-100,Wood ink pen

[superteddy57]

I think it may be due to the '–' is different than '-'. Try replacing them with the second one.

[Jiminimonka]

I think it may be due to the '–' is different than '-'. Try replacing them with the second one.

Perfect, thanks. Such a simple thing.

[amerigoV]

This works for me. (See picture.)

Are you sure that you are in the Delimited mode with the correct options enabled for header row and range column?

Regards,
JPG

It might be something with the Savage Worlds ruleset (I tried both on ongoing game and a simple no-extensions campaign). Today it partially works - did does create the columns, but not the ranges (it makes range column into its own column and sets the rolls to be 1-4).

It works right for me in the sample 5E campaign

[Moon Wizard]

@jiminimonka,
Just did some investigation of this. It looks like em-dash and en-dash get encoded as UTF-8 characters; and Lua doesn't pattern match well against UTF-8 strings. I found a way to replace those two dash types before doing the pattern match that I'll include in the next CoreRPG release.

@amerigoV,
Yes, the Savage Worlds ruleset appears to overwrite the checkbox button template to behave differently which causes issues; which means that the checkbox options are not being read.
I reported this issue to the SW developer a couple weeks ago; but he is apparently away. If we don't hear back in the next week or so, then we'll have to see if we can patch it up without him.

Regards,
JPG