How to keep the holder value when exporting characters

[Alynn]

Are you creating an extension as well? If so add a hidden field that gets its value from that non exporting field. It will export.

So you are saying use addNode on charsheet, then use setValue to the player name, then setPublic to false

If so that would allow me to avoid making a whole new file entirely. Something I create on init and then export will do the rest for me.

If this is what you are talking about this is brilliant and I greatly appreciate it.

[Trenloe]

So you are saying use addNode on charsheet, then use setValue to the player name, then setPublic to false

You don't need to set public to false. @damned's reference to a "hidden field" was saying don't display it in the FG GUI.

You really only need one command. For example, if you have the character node (stored in nodeChar) and the player name (stored in sPlayerName), you only need one command to create a new field within the character database called "playername":

DB.setValue(nodeChar, "playername", "string", sPlayerName);

https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassia...82/DB#setValue

[Alynn]

Perfect... simplified everything for me...

chars = DB.getChildList("charsheet");

for i,v in ipairs(chars) do
DB.setValue(v, "playername", "string", v.getOwner())
end

Runs on init and I can see it in the export and now can be accessed by my simple data pull function in my middleware.

[Trenloe]

Good stuff!