Changing Sheets Mid Campaign

If i change my players character sheets from the regular Savage Worlds sheet to the updated Tabbed sheet, when i save it to my campaign, will it transfer the data to the new sheet, or will my players have to move everything by hand..?

So does anybody know..?

Set up a small second campaign and test it?

You shouldn't loose any info. If the new sheet uses the same attribute names, your previous data for those attributes should transfer right over. If there are new attributes unique to the new sheet, you will have to add that data since it doesn't exist yet.

I used the original sheet to build the Tabbed Sheet, but I believe I had to make some field name modification because problems I was having and didn't fully understand how to build Character Sheets (I was learning as I went). Unfortunately, my time this weekend is pretty slim, so I can't do a comparison of the two to see what all is the same and what's different. Vince is correct, you shouldn't lose any information, but it may not populate on the sheet, but it would still appear on the Attributes & Abilities tab. When I get some time, I'll see if I can't do a comparison of what all the fields are on the original and what's on the Tabbed one to give an idea of what may be lost. Rodney's suggestion would be the quickest, though, as I don't know when or how long it may take me to put together that list. But I do think it would be a good list to compile and I'll include it in the Character Sheet Guide I'm working on for the Tabbed sheet for the future. Sorry it doesn't help you right now.

Ok, I did a quick test in a new campaign. You'll "lose" the following (again, lose in the sense of the character sheet not populating with the info): Attributes (I thought I used the same names, but may have not capitalized the same--didn't realize that was important) Toughness Mod Rank Wounds All your skill ranks Repeating Skills Ranks (though the names carry over) You've given me an idea, though...I'll need to see if I can do something in the configuration to allow the easy switching of character sheets. I'll give this some thought. I might have a way to accomplish that, atle

Hi GV. Any way you can just change the attribute names on the new sheet (find/replace) so that there would be less "fallout"? Just tossing an idea.

Yea it would have to move some info , i tested it..

Vince, not without impacting everyone else who has been using the the tabbed sheet for a while. But I have an idea that may work. It'll just take some time for me to get it done. Especially since I'm at school for the rest of the weekend.

NP GV. Your sheet looks great BTW. Might have to have a go at SW...

Thanks. 😀 and I'd highly recommend Savage Worlds.

Im running a Hellfrost campaign and i love it. The system is fun, Would be cool to put the Hellfrost logo on the sheet

That's actually on my list. I can try to get it added before the next update. I'll see what I can do.

Ok - I looked at the two sheets to see how big of an effort it would be to aid in the migration from the non-tabbed sheet to the tabbed sheet, and unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to get it to work—at least not using only html and css. I may be able to get something figured out via the API, but that will take a lot longer, because I'm just starting to mess around with that and have zero experience with JavaScrip. If push comes to shove I may ask for help on the API, but that would only benefit those with a Mentor running the campaign. The problem isn't one of naming (well, not completely). I did use the same names for the Attributes (attr_agility = attr_agility), but the problem is one of values. The tabbed sheet moved away from the value of 4! and just uses 4 and populates the ! in the roll button. The skills would be a problem for that reason, but also for naming conventions. So, I'm thinking I'll need to delve into the API to resolve this conundrum. Just wanted to give you all an update on what I've found so far.