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Non roll initiative and keeping text out of chat

Pretty much as title describes, My game doesnt have random Initiative, its set and a stat on the characters sheet. Ive made a macro that works with adding them to the tracker but the problem I have is it must be clicked for each token in turn and it shows the initiative in chat as a number. The macro is as follows [[@{Selected|Initiative} &{tracker}]] My question is, how can i make it so nothing appears in the chat, you just click it and the selected token is added and is there a way to get this to function for multipel tokens at once? I tried shift + clicking but only the last one selected is added. Thanks.
One token per unfortunately. There are API scripts that can do multiple initiatives, but that is a Pro feature. As for hiding it from chat you can always do a /w gm in front of the macro. The other players won't see it. 
Bugger. Well thanks anyhow. The /w GM wont fix it as im the GM and its my screen people see lol. Thanks anyway man.
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Instead of /w GM, you could create a second account and have it just sitting in the game to be whispered to. The display name could be "whisperbot" or "Whisperinitbot" or anything else you want. That would let you set up macros to whisper to it instead. You would need to have a second tab open but you can have that seperate and minimized. 
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You can prepend your macro with an exclamation mark to prevent it from being seen in the Text Chat. e.g. ! [[ @{selected|initiative} &{tracker} ]]
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Lithl
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Silvyre said: You can append your macro with an exclamation mark to prevent it from being seen in the Text Chat. e.g. ! [[ @{selected|initiative} &{tracker} ]] That's a prepend. =P
Thanks for the append!
Silvyre said: You can prepend your macro with an exclamation mark to prevent it from being seen in the Text Chat. e.g. ! [[ @{selected|initiative} &{tracker} ]] I always forget that trick
ah sweet, glad i randomly kept this tab open! seems like a small thing but this really keeps higns much neater in big fights. thanks alot man
Happy rolling!