Show nameplates to all players

This topic keeps getting closed and keeps being asked again. Here is the general response: Go to the token's settings. Check off "Show Nameplate". Go to the Advanced tab and under Player Permissions -> Name, check off "See". Then everyone will be able to see the nameplate regardless on whether they have permission to use that token or not. What is the "Advanced Tab", you may ask (as I did)?

This UI was changed last year (or was it the year before), so older answer are going to have the wrong instructions.  There used to be a tab (where GM Notes is now) called "Advanced", which had these settings on it.  I'm still not the biggest fan of the new UI, but you can't please everyone.

If I take the players to a new page it seems I have to recreate the token settings all over again as I add them to the page. This is a nuisance. The players token settings should be linked to the player character sheet so they get reset to the current values when the token is created new.

When you add a Default Token to a character, it's a snapshot of the token at that point, if you then make changes to it, it will deviate from the saved snapshot.  When you have the token how you want it, you need to set it as the new default token to make an updated snapshot of its current state. You can do that with TokenMod quite easily: !token-mod --set defaulttoken That will save all selected tokens as the default token for their respective represented characters.

Thanks Aaron. I may be missing a step. Here is what I did. On page 1 I drag the player from the journal to the token layer. I select the token and press settings - everything is at default. I set name template on, go to "..." and set See to on, and make the token controlled by the player Close the dialog and in chat enter !token-mod --set defaulttoken Then I go to page 2 and drag the player from the journal to the token layer. I select the token and press settings - everything is still at default. It does not have the settings I gave it on page 1.

Just to ask the obvious question: You have installed token-mod, correct? Less obvious question: You have verified that the token represents the character? A default token won't unless you specifically set it to before saving it as default. Even less obvious question: Do you get the same results if you set the default token manually?

I have confirmed that if I select a figure, use copy from the right click menu, go to a page and paste, then it has all settings correctly set.

Sounds like you don't have the API script TokenMod installed.  You can still set the default token manually without it, it's just less convenient. 

Any time I use the quote function for the last 4 or 5 attempts my posts don't show up. Let me try that again: Worked out how to install through help. I'm wary to put the URL in case my post gets auto filtered so here is the article title "How to Install API Scripts via 1-Click Install". It took me a while to realise that I had to exit the game to get to the page with the button at the game's home page. Might be an idea to update the help to make that a bit more obvious for us newbies. Installed token mod and I think the output means all is well. - Error downloading scripts (probably no scripts exist for campaign.) Restarting sandbox by user request... No existing sandbox found.  Preparing sandbox to start on game activity. Spinning up new sandbox... "Loading character sheet data..." "Starting webworker script..." "Loading 737 translation strings to worker..." "-=> TokenMod v0.8.71 <=-  [Sun Jul 18 2021 21:20:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)]" "  > Updating Schema to v0.4 <" "  > Updating Help Handout to v0.8.71 <"

A note that this technique only works for PRO subscriptions. DMs without PRO cannot access the API. For them its a cut and paste job.

Glad to hear you got it working.

Thanks The Aaron, nice script.