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Looking for a solution: Shared Party Databases/Sheets

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Hey all, So I have a fairly large group playing, and our play style sees us investigating lots of locations in grand scale, and small scale. We also have a shared set of resources that we keep available to all members of the group, where we track every single shared item. In addition: we record the names, status' and some general information about npc's that we meet throughout the world. I have been doing this in a shared google sheet - one tab for each: Resources, Locations, People. But adoption has been lacking... I'm hoping that there is a solution that can be (or already is) available directly in Roll20. Ideally the solution would meet the following requirements: 1) The sheets should be accessible to all members of the party - presented in a datatable or spreadsheet like input 2) A sheet could be created at any time for any type of shared data that needs to be stored 3) New columns could be added when needed - each sheet may or may not have the same columns as any other sheet 4) At a minimum: we would need inputs like plain texts, and long texts 5) Nice to have: sortable and searchable To help: this is how I've currently been doing it: I'm hoping I can find an integrated solution. Thanks!
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The Aaron
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API Scripter
Such a thing would be possible with an API script, but I'm not aware of any that are currently written to help with that.
I recently did something similar. The roll20 editor doesn't do tables all that well. I did have a shared handout for treasure which had upcoming treasure in the GM section in a table. It also had a table where you could assign treasure to characters. It's nearly impossible to copy paste a table with data from the GM section into the visible player section. I ended up just creating a shared google doc with our treasure in it because I wanted to be able to assign items to people and have sortable content.&nbsp; The other option is to use the API. I've tried to use a couple of API inventory tools in the past but never really got them to work how I wanted them to. One of them was:&nbsp; <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:InventoryManager" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:InventoryManager</a> and:&nbsp; <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:Backpack" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Script:Backpack</a>
My group just has a shared google docs spreadsheet, I have access to it as well. It seems to serve their needs.
Thanks for the quick replies guys - sounds like the use case isn't common enough for this to already really exist. I might try scripting one then - somethign simple. Problem would be solved if I could use more than one character sheet type in a game - that way I could just use the multi-line markup... simplest solution already built... but - meh.