Reference manager - access to characters

[BiscuitSoda]

The problem

Bug desc.:
The Reference Manager does not replace broken references that are in Characters.

For example if you use {Name} as the character display_name, it won't update it when you change the variable name to "player_name".

• Godot Version 4.3
• Dialogic Version 2.0-A-16

Solutions

Workaround
Changed it manually in the Character Resource.

Possible fixes
Include character resources in Broken Reference's search and replace

Thank you :)

[Jowan-Spooner]

I see. This is annoying but true. Currently the save and replace feature only works on timelines. But there are several other places where variables are allowed, including the Character display name and the glossary entries, titles and extras.

Unfortunately I doubt I will have time to work on this soon, cause it seems a bit complicated for relatively little return (these occurances are much more rare then variable or character name use in timelines).

Still agree this would be nice to have at some point.

[BiscuitSoda]

No problem and understood!
Thank you for your time and quick response.
I'm a complete noob with no coding experience to speak of, yet I insist on you knowing that I picked up Dialogic very quickly and without issues. I feel it will be a tool I will use a lot in the future, near and far.
It has also helped our project substantially as it allows me to write and "code" at the same time.
Huge time save for us, you have no idea.
This one "bug" is more for my coder friend who had a hell of a time figuring out it was written {Name} in Character Resources (on just one character, the player character) when he was trying to act on {name}.
Whew! XD

Cheers though,
Happy New Years with a bit of delay (call it lag for now)

P.S.
I've noted and passed on that the save and replace only works on timelines.

[BiscuitSoda]

Also Also,

Maybe warn users that Save and replace only acts on timelines?
(We didn't read too much when we started using Dialogic 🥇, so maybe its written somewhere already haha)

[Jowan-Spooner]

I just checked and the tooltip of the "Check Selected" button notes that this searches timelines, though this is easy to miss and doesn't specifically highlight that you will have to manually replace things in other resources. Agree that this should be made more prominent.