Formatted Player Notes

**Trenloe** · February 26th, 2014, 11:30

No Longer Needed - Included in FG 3.0.3

For use with rulesets based on CoreRPG only!

I've thrown together a very quick extension that changes the campaign notes field to be a formattedtext control:

Attachment 6166

Put this in your <FG App Data>\extensions folder and select "Formatted Notes (CoreRPG+)" from the extensions list when loading a campaign.

Note: This will only work with campaigns that don't have notes already as it changes the underlying database node type and so trying to open notes from a campaign without the extension will raise errors. If you're up to a bit of XML editing you can fix this yourself - see post #4 below for details.

Here's an example of a note with links to an image, an NPC (personality) and another note:

Technical Info

Ruleset tag used: none. This extension will show for any FG ruleset (it does not have a <ruleset> tag in the extension.xml file) - but it uses code from CoreRPG and so will only work with rulesets that are based on or layered on top of the CoreRPG ruleset.
CoreRPG version compatible: 3.0.2
Code changed: <windowclass name="note"> copied from campaign\campaign_notes.xml. <stringfield name="text"> changed to <basicft name="text">

**viresanimi** · February 26th, 2014, 13:04

This is great!!!

**damned** · February 26th, 2014, 14:01

nice work master Trenloe.

**Callum** · February 26th, 2014, 19:29

Would you be able to do a quick find-and-replace to convert a campaign with existing notes to be able to use this?

**Trenloe** · February 26th, 2014, 20:13

Originally Posted by Callum

Would you be able to do a quick find-and-replace to convert a campaign with existing notes to be able to use this?

Yep, within the <notes> section only of the campaign db.xml (or a module); replace <text type="string"> with <text type="formattedtext">

**Moon Wizard** · February 28th, 2014, 23:01

I'm debating making this a general change. It's been floating around a bit as a suggestion, and I haven't been able to think of any reasons not to (other than inertia). Also, since notes are not exportable to modules, it makes migration issues a snap.

JPG

**Trenloe** · February 28th, 2014, 23:06

Originally Posted by Moon Wizard

I'm debating making this a general change. It's been floating around a bit as a suggestion, and I haven't been able to think of any reasons not to (other than inertia). Also, since notes are not exportable to modules, it makes migration issues a snap.

Yep, the only issue I see is older campaigns with notes - I assume it is possible to upgrade the "string" fields to "formattedtext" in the database?

I had thought about modules briefly, but hadn't looked into it to realise that notes aren't exportable - that makes it easier.

That will also avoid the need for the <merge> issue I emailed you about!

**Moon Wizard** · February 28th, 2014, 23:10

Yeah, apologies to all for delayed responses. I've really tried to knuckle down, and knock out some documentation. I'll hopefully be ready to show the updated documentation next week.

Regards,
JPG

**Trenloe** · February 28th, 2014, 23:19

Originally Posted by Moon Wizard

Yeah, apologies to all for delayed responses. I've really tried to knuckle down, and knock out some documentation. I'll hopefully be ready to show the updated documentation next week.

No worries at all. You're a stronger willed man than me when it comes to documentation, I'm very easily distracted...

**Blacky** · February 28th, 2014, 23:44

Is there a reason not to have formatted field in every instance where there is a multi-line field entry, I mean as a general rule?

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