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Journal Links everywhere

January 20 (9 years ago)

Edited January 20 (9 years ago)
Scott C.
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So, the ability to link journals entries is great for tying together disparate pieces of information, but I think it would be great if these links worked everywhere, like inside macros and rolls, so that I could put notes about a rifle's ammunition in the attack notes on my pathfinder character sheet and then it would show up as a link whenever I activated my Rifle attack macro allowing quick access to facts about the ammunition if needed without having to clutter the roll window with all that text.

This would also allow player's and the gm to direct somebody to information without having to say, "it's in the NPC's folder, under town, third one down".
January 28 (9 years ago)

Edited January 28 (9 years ago)
This is currently possible using the chat tags in the macro.  When you are in a journal typing [handout] currently makes a link in the journal to one named "handout". Take that handout link right click on it and copy the link location. Now go into your macro and use the chat link format as described in the wiki here. Like so [Link to Handout](http://dummylink/) and when you run the macro it will output to chat as a clickable link. I also add bold formatting using the ** on either side because it's not underlined. 

I use this for status effects it helps me out greatly.
January 29 (9 years ago)
Scott C.
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Thanks,

It's nice that there is a workaround currently in place, and I'll start using it in the game I'm running, but it would still be nice if it worked the same no matter what you were typing in.  Nitpicky of me I know.

-Scott
February 14 (5 years ago)
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