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Collapsable folders in the compendium directory and folder structures inside compendiums for FoundryVTT
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Journal Entries placed on Scenes become dead links when moving to Compendium. Is there a way to preserve those links? #23

Closed RollToSaveVsDragons closed 3 years ago

earlSt1 commented 3 years ago

I've just tried to replicate this by making a scene, adding a journal entry to it, exporting it to a compendium using the Export icon, then re-importing it and viewing it. I can see the journal entry icon on the map and it links just fine (i even moved the journal entry into another folder and repeated the proceess).

Could you detail the steps you are taking to create these dead links? I havent had a chance to play around with how scenes interact with compendium folders

Edit: After reading this again I'm not sure if you're reporting a bug here or requesting a feature :)

RollToSaveVsDragons commented 3 years ago

Heh, yeah I don't really know myself if this is a new feature or a bug report, but it's not working for me either way. Just made a new test world, copied over the packs directory and added the db files to the new world.json. Enabled the folders modules, imported journals, imported scenes. Map notes show as Unknown and unlinked. I was hoping to use the module for storing the books/chapters I have created but are not currently using, but I can't really since I use map notes extensively, so it would be cool if this feature was added. But I have no idea how much of that would be in the domain of FVTT core, so maybe it's an unreasonable ask 🤷‍♂️

earlSt1 commented 3 years ago

So from what i've tested, the map notes only link to journal entries in the current world. If you export them and import them to a new world the link breaks somewhere. Looks like this is a core foundry limitation, and im not sure about how the links work.

Ideally you should be able to link map notes to journal entries in compendiums, not sure if theres a module which allows this yet. You can get around it by double right clicking the Unknown tag and changing the Journal entry at the top to point to your chapter in the current world, but that sounds like quite a long process :)

RollToSaveVsDragons commented 3 years ago

If you knew how many map notes I have... 🙂

I have made a feature request to core. I guess we’ll see what happens.

earlSt1 commented 3 years ago

Awesome, I'll close this issue then as I cant really help any more. Maybe someone has made a macro or something which imports stuff in the discord? If not you could try the Adventure Exporter module, or Easy Exports.