Tutorials - Character Attributes

These are the pre-configured character fields that can be activated to extend the characters' presentation. They can be activated in the Event Configuration page, at the Writing section:

Title

This field is used to add a 2/3 word title to the characters. 

A new field is now added to the character form:

And the content of the field is shown in the gallery, next to the character's name:

Cover

This feature allows you to customize the cover image of the characters (before a player is assigned to them).

A new field is now added to the character form:

The new cover is show in the gallery: 

Assigned

This field is used to track which staff member is assigned to work on writing element (be it a character, faction, etc). 

A new field is now added to the character form:

The list of member will be taken from the list of users with a staff role in the event. 

Progress

This field is used to track the writing progress of a writing element (example: draft, review, approved, etc). To use, activate the "Progress" feature.

Now go to the Progress panel, and add a new progress step clicking on "Add".

A new field is now added to the character form:

If you have both Progress and Assigned activated, a summary can be shown at the top of the character field to show a map between assigned characters and their progress: 

Relationships

This feature allow staff members to write relationships between characters. To use, activate the "Relationships" feature.

Now click on "Relationships" next to the character name:

Click on "Add" to create a new one: 

The list of relationships will be shown at the end of the character's page. 

PDF generation

This feature generates a PDF version of the character sheet, automatically each time the character is updated. To use, activate the "PDF generation" feature.

Now go to the PDF panel:

Here you can download the gallery of characters in PDF format; test it (HTML only), and generate the PDF list of player profiles.

Here you can test the PDF generation of a character. Select the character on the left, then you can generate either the PDF or the test version (HTML) on three elements:

• Full sheet (formatted by the following items)
• Light sheet (automatically formatted, for printing / more easible reading) 
• Relationships (automatically formatted)

Clicking on Template Instructions will help you define the template for the full sheet:

Fill the CSS, Header and Background with the desired content, and the confirm to upload them.

The PDF generation is based on xhtml2pdf: if you desire to know more what you can do with it, you can check out their docs: https://xhtml2pdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/format_html.html