Question about Characters Page

markbckr
markbckr
edited January 2016 in Campaign Portal Building
On the Characters Page what is the function of the Player Character check box? I checked it for my players' characters and left it unchecked for NPCs, but one of my players said he can only edit the NPCs not his own character. The only difference I see is that the player character box is checked. Any thought on why this is happening, and what is the function of that check box? Thanks.

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  • Bortas
    Bortas
    Posts: 645
    If player character is checked, down at the bottom, make sure the owner is listed as him, otherwise ANY player can edit any other player's character page. In a simple sense, it prevents everyone else from messing with YOUR character (if you are the player).

    Aside from that, there are no other obvious things that checking the box does. However, you can use that checkbox along with CSS to make things different on your character list. For example, "this campaign":https://eidl.obsidianportal.com/characters has that PC's outlined in yellow, so they stand out from NPCs.

    The code might look like:
    @.character-index .character-list-item:not(.npc) {
    border:3px solid;
    border-color: #E6E600 #BDBD00 #A6A602 #CFCF00;
    }/* Gives borders to player character boxes */@

    Good luck,
    -bort

    "Morwindl":https://morwindl.obsidianportal.com
    "EIDL":https://eidl.obsidianportal.com
  • saethone
    saethone
    Posts: 153
    Once upon a time PC's used to have a seperate section at the top of the characters list too. They changed it with the reforge.
  • Bortas
    Bortas
    Posts: 645
    They still do, when you click the 'filters' at top of character list.
  • Keryth987
    Keryth987
    Posts: 1,047
    Or do like I did on SHadows and not use the Character page except to enter PCs. All my NPC's have their own page, and the PC's do to. Yes, I've recently customized the default characters page but that was ebcause one of my players stumbled on it and felt it didn't belong with the rest of my site.

    Part of me is even considering hiding the character's button and just placing a link in the GM only area of my main page since I only use it at Character Creation. I modify from the character Page which is accessable through my site without the default pagge


    Keelah Se'lai,
    Keryth
    "Shadows Over New York":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shadows-over-new-york
    "2013 Campaign of The Year":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/2013-coty-shadows-over-new-york/
    "Campaign of the Month July 2013":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/shadows-over-new-york-julys-campaign-of-the-month/

  • GamingMegaverse
    GamingMegaverse
    Posts: 3,001
    Or, you can make them all wikis.... Makes everything have the same rule sets.... I use a performers page, and hide the character link.
    killervp
    "A God...Rebuilt":https://a-god-rebuilt.obsidianportal.com

    Just trying to help out.

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