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Whispering full names!

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Stephen Koontz
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Compendium Curator
You can now whisper using a character's complete name. Previously this had been an issue for some campaigns that had multiple characters with the same first name. You can whisper using a full name by placing quotes around the complete name. /w "Full Name" Your whispered message. /w "Georgie Porgie" I'm having no luck with my rolls tonight. Happy whispering!
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Very nice! I can now ditch the complex logic I use to pull the first name of a character in all my scripts. =D That logic prevented the first part of text from having something like " Aaron " on it when whispering to The Aaron , but it wasn't perfect. I ran into this just the other day when helping a friend with their game. They were named "The Great and Powerful Dungeon Master" and I was "The Aaron". When they'd run a script, I'd get the output because the scripts thought that both of us were named "The" and I was the first one it came to. Kudos for a great fix that I have been wanting and didn't even think to ask for! =D
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
And since you're working on whispers, how about looking at this: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1241882/api-slas" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1241882/api-slas</a>... =D
Hmmm...this may not actually work on API whispering yet...I'll have to take a look.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
I went to test this real quick, but my test campaign's API sandbox seems to be hung... guess I'll try again later. =D
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Survey says... {"who":"error","type":"error","content":"Unable to find a player or character with name: \"the"} Fail! No worries.. I'll update my scripts later. =D
I notice that the Whisper also wants "GM" to be "gm" now. only took a minute to fix my scripts with cut and paste, seems I sometimes used caps and sometimes not. Everything is working great with the update, nice work Riley & team.
It seems that this functionality (which is great btw!) may be causing a regression issue though: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1341447/d-and-d-" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1341447/d-and-d-</a>...
al e. said: I notice that the Whisper also wants "GM" to be "gm" now. only took a minute to fix my scripts with cut and paste, seems I sometimes used caps and sometimes not. Everything is working great with the update, nice work Riley & team. This should be fixed. (You can now use both "GM" and "gm" again). Sorry about that.