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<blockquote data-quote="weldon" data-source="post: 5163069" data-attributes="member: 18817"><p>OK. I see what you are saying. Reading back through the spreadsheet proposal and the discussion, I don't think the exact usage was clarified. We may want to revisit this so that we have clear instructions on what is *required* on the wiki page and what is optional (like math, etc.).</p><p></p><p>As for expanding the status template to hold the other info...</p><p></p><p>It would be a bit problematic to duplicate existing template tags and design the DPL query to look in both places and add logic to decide which one to use. It's not hard, but it's an increase on CPU load to run the if statements against each character page. A simpler solution would be to use the character template and only fill in the "required" fields.</p><p></p><p>We can make it easier for those that only want to include a short summary by providing a cut-and-paste section that only has the template tags needed for the "short form" character sheet.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I tend to lean this way too. I think I would prefer to see more standard character pages with the summary, fluff, xp tracking, etc. on the wiki page. The math section could just have a link to the spreadsheet.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I could get behind the idea of a "short form" character summary, although the existing summary isn't too long itself. We can use the existing character template and just leave stuff blank. We can make it easier for people to cut and paste the "required" fields by providing an example of the short form on the template page in addition to the full template.</p><p></p><p>It may also be possible to take the data from the spreadsheet and generate the wiki code so that a player could cut and paste from a sheet on the google spreadsheet or a web page that pulls the data from it into their wiki page. That's probably a few hours of work for someone to create. Iterating through the powers would probably be the hard part. Creating the piece of the summary before the powers looks straightforward.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="weldon, post: 5163069, member: 18817"] OK. I see what you are saying. Reading back through the spreadsheet proposal and the discussion, I don't think the exact usage was clarified. We may want to revisit this so that we have clear instructions on what is *required* on the wiki page and what is optional (like math, etc.). As for expanding the status template to hold the other info... It would be a bit problematic to duplicate existing template tags and design the DPL query to look in both places and add logic to decide which one to use. It's not hard, but it's an increase on CPU load to run the if statements against each character page. A simpler solution would be to use the character template and only fill in the "required" fields. We can make it easier for those that only want to include a short summary by providing a cut-and-paste section that only has the template tags needed for the "short form" character sheet. I tend to lean this way too. I think I would prefer to see more standard character pages with the summary, fluff, xp tracking, etc. on the wiki page. The math section could just have a link to the spreadsheet. I could get behind the idea of a "short form" character summary, although the existing summary isn't too long itself. We can use the existing character template and just leave stuff blank. We can make it easier for people to cut and paste the "required" fields by providing an example of the short form on the template page in addition to the full template. It may also be possible to take the data from the spreadsheet and generate the wiki code so that a player could cut and paste from a sheet on the google spreadsheet or a web page that pulls the data from it into their wiki page. That's probably a few hours of work for someone to create. Iterating through the powers would probably be the hard part. Creating the piece of the summary before the powers looks straightforward. [/QUOTE]
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