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syl3r86 / compendium-browser

A module to easily browse and filter spells as well as npcs loaded from compendie
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Feature Suggestion: Show the Source Compendium Name in the List #14

Open ChaseDonnally opened 4 years ago

ChaseDonnally commented 4 years ago

It would be cool to see the source compendium name in the returned search list. Helpful for when you know you're probably looking for an item from a specific compendium that might show up in multiple compendiums (e.g. dndbeyond spells vs. SRD spells).

RogueEntityX commented 4 years ago

I had this idea too. Another possibility is to have a tooltip with the compendium name when hovering over an item in the results.

damccull commented 4 years ago

I would love to see that, but I'd also like the source filter to be a dropdown listing all currently known sources. Basically to create a unique list of sources from the existing compendiums (PHB, Xanathar's, etc) and put the in the dropdown. That way you don't have to type the source and take a guess if any of your stuff is from one particular place.

JHFleeting commented 3 years ago

This is the key feature that sadly I needed but this program does not have. The whole reason I need to search multiple compendiums is some items exist in more than one compendium. The issue is they're not identical, compendium As items are superior to Bs items which are superior to Cs item. So when I search "Shield" and get three 'shield of faiths' I need to know which is from the DAE SRD vs the SRD and the DDB - the DAE is the one I want. Now sure, why not delete the other two, but the SRD updates itself periodically and I don't know exactly which spells have a DAE copy or not.

Anyway, it seems like this would be a simple feature and there's room for it, I'm sad it was suggested back in September but never implemented. I was really excited when I installed the mod, it was exactly what I needed, except without that single feature it becomes useless. To me, at least. Otherwise still a good mod!