This week we finished the player profiles upgrade with the per-campaign player profiles. We also added a new role: "Engineer", players with this role can add tag semantics and (in the future) will also be able to edit custom data types. We also worked through a load of smaller features, among which new gallery image links, and monospaced markings for use in formatted text.

This week's blog post is about Tag Special Abilities, that will offer building blocks to keep your campaign organized the way you want!

Campaign

• Your campaign image is now also used as your campaign's "favicon", which means that browser tabs opened on your campaign now have a little campaign image! This helps pick out the campaign tabs from other tabs, and makes it easier to distinguish multiple campaigns from each other (provided that a campaign image has been set).

Authorization

• Added a new role "Engineer". The Engineer role can update and manage special abilities of tags, and in the future will also be able to edit the existing Person, Location, and Faction types, as well as define new types.

Player Profiles

• There are now special per-campaign player profiles listing. These profiles show the player's activity in that campaign, as well as the characters they play.

• When in a campaign, player names link to a player profile for that campaign where this makes sense. For example, a wiki page that shows the "Last edited by alia at sometime" text will have the "alia" part link to alia's profile in that campaign.

• Player Profiles feature a "Message" button that lets you quickly write a message to that player, automatically setting the message's campaign context as well since you were coming from a campaign.

Formatted Text

• Added a dedicated {{gallery>Gallery page#Exhibit title}} tag to allow including gallery images on other pages. By default, the included exhibit shows the image and an image caption with the exhibit title, description, and a link to the gallery page. You can replace this caption with your own by using {{gallery>...|Custom caption!}}. This way you can also remove the caption: just add the | and don't add your own text after it.
  • The gallery image special feature introduced in changelog_2019-03-09's Special Features has been removed in favour of this much better approach.

• Added an monospaced tag for easier writing of key combo's and anything that reads better when it is in monospace. You can put something in monospace by surrounding some text with two single quotes (' ) before and after it. See your campaign's formatting help for a demonstration. Or you can view the community campaign's help.

Wiki

• Wiki differences pages now have breadcrumbs for themselves, allowing you to copy the URL of the difference page more easily. Additionally, difference of unremoved pages also have a page breadcrumb, allowing you to go the the current page via the breadcrumbs as well.

• The wikipage disambiguation text with exactly the same names (such as For other uses of 'Edna' see Edna.) has been made clearer. If available the system will now use the other's real name (instead of title) to try and give you better information about the situation. The example text then becomes For other uses of 'Edna' see Edna Porter.

• The wikipage disambiguation text for perfect one-to-one mappings has been improved. A perfect one-to-one mapping occurs when one page has a bunch of aliases (for example "Bruce Wayne" with alias "Batman"), and there are pages that have that alias as their actual name (the separate "Batman" page). This is often the case when using multiple pages for identities or persona's of a single person in the setting.

Vampire: the Masquerade

• Improved clarity of the zero-handling messages in the Vampire: the Masquerade character sheets. The -1 dice and can't defaults are now more clearly distinguished from normal values.

• Switched order of Current and Maximum fields for both Willpower and Blood Pool traits. The new order is: Current, then Maximum; which makes sense when you read it as 7/10.

• Added a notes field to the topmost part of the Vampire: the Masquerade character sheet. This helps players that want to make a few notes about their blood pool, willpower, or personality traits.

Other

• Special account badges are now shown everywhere in the community campaign, as well as on the global account profiles. This makes it easier to identify if someone posting on the community forums is a developer or now.

• Significantly sped up activity views. Due to the new custom permissions system, some of the acitivity listings became a little slower. This has been remedied, so you can now smoothly browse the different activity views again.

• As an added benefit the speed-up for activity views also speeds up search availability for just opened pages. The search could sometimes take a few moments before becoming available on a page that was just opened. If no new changes happend since the last time you opened a page, the search should be avialable almost immediately.

• Campaigns in the global Active Campaign overview are now sorted by name, instead of being sorted randomly every time.

Bugs

• Fixed a bug where the [sidebar] tag could not be closed correctly (it could only be closed with the misspelled [sidebarr]). You can now close sidebars again with the normal closing tag [/sidebar].

• Fixed a bug where dropdowns to select a campaign had some superfluous empty space in front of the campaign name.

• Fixed wikipage gallery sorting option (not sorted) to correctly read (sort by title). One of our players helpfully pointed out that (not sorted) was incorrect, since we now sort the gallery by title!

• Fixed a bug where a single Search result was not automatically selected in the case the search dropdown openend with only a single results. This has now been fixed, and you can quickly navigate with <enter> even if the dropdown opens with a single result.

• Several other, smaller, bugs were also squashed.

Layout Bugs

• Fixed a bug where people with multiple account badges were only shown as having one of them. It should be noted that nobdy has mutliple account badges at the moment, but it should work when someone gets two badges :)

• Fixed a bug where the bottom-most table in formatted text boxes, quotes, and the overall text had additional whitespace below them. This has been fixed so tables no longer show strange spaces below them unnecessarily.

• Fixed a bug that allowed the "There are no Locations" message for a [show:tiles] block without results to slide underneath the wikipage infobox. This no longer happens, and the notice is now correctly adjusted.

• Fixed a bug that allowed the gallery search & filter bar to fit directly against a long wikipage infobox. This has been corrected to make sure some space is in place. Incidentally, this also fixes wrapped text from coming to close to the infobox.

• Fixed a bug that stretched character images in the global profiles to the "spaghetti" level (but only on Chrome/Chromium and some versions of Safari). Your characters now show up in the correct size in your RPGpad profile!

• Several other layout bugs that are so small that they do not warrant a separate entry.