Can't edit or delete skill with "~" character about fate-core-official

[Sk1mble]

Hi, I can help you to fix your broken skills, but ideally would do this by logging on to your server so I can manipulate the skill data.

I can't see myself adding the ability to sort skills manually at this time; this would require the addition of a secondary data item per skill which would track its sort order. This wouldn't be used by a majority of Fate implementations and would require a very significant rework of the way the skill data is stored.

I'm unsure what has caused the skills to break here, but will know more when I can review your live data. Alternatively, you can export your skills by going to the 'export all skills' option in the skill edit dialog:

[Sk1mble]

Also, in the meantime, I've just checked, and skills will be sorted by order of number of asterisks in the name, so * will come before ** and *** etc. That would be a safer mechanism than using other unusual characters as prefixes. I suspect that tilde isn't an acceptable character in JSON object keys, but will know more when I inspect the skill data.

[gutzumerken]

Hey,
we host the game on forge-vtt.com. So as far as I understand you can't log on into the server itself to see the live data(?).
But I can give you my userdata/PW if that helps.
Here is the export of the skill data:
{
"/Clever": {
"name": "/Clever",
"description": "",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "

",
"attack": "

",
"defend": "

",
"pc": true
},
"*TECHnology": {
"name": "*TECHnology",
"description": "",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "",
"attack": "",
"defend": "",
"pc": true
},
"*ROGUISH": {
"name": "*ROGUISH",
"description": "",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "",
"attack": "",
"defend": "",
"pc": true
},
"*MARTIAL": {
"name": "*MARTIAL",
"description": "",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "",
"attack": "",
"defend": "",
"pc": true
},
"*PARAnormal": {
"name": "*PARAnormal",
"description": "",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "",
"attack": "",
"defend": "",
"pc": true
},
"/Flashy": {
"name": "/Flashy",
"description": "",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "",
"attack": "",
"defend": "",
"pc": true
},
"/Forceful": {
"name": "/Forceful",
"description": "",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "",
"attack": "",
"defend": "",
"pc": true
},
"+Careful": {
"name": "+Careful",
"description": "

",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "",
"attack": "",
"defend": "",
"pc": true
},
"~ Quick": {
"name": "Quick",
"description": "",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "",
"attack": "",
"defend": "",
"pc": true
},
"~ Quick": {
"name": "Quick",
"description": "",
"overcome": "",
"caa": "",
"attack": "",
"defend": "",
"pc": true
}
}

To sort the skills by different amounts of * is a good idea. Way safer than strange characters ;)

[gutzumerken]

Can you replicate the problem when you name one of your skills "~ XYZ"?

[Sk1mble]

I can see what's happened. The key values and name values should be the same, but the tildes are being stripped from the names, meaning that they no longer match. If you change the keys to remove the tildes in the data you exported and then clear your skills and reimport, that will fix the problem.

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, 09:47 gutzumerken, ***@***.***> wrote: Can you replicate the problem when you name one of your skills "~ XYZ"? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#33 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAK7N5UMNQBO6YJDWJPBMVDVUZTSTANCNFSM533SUQKQ> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Sk1mble]

Example: "Quick": { "name": "Quick", "description": "", "overcome": "", "caa": "", "attack": "", "defend": "", "pc": true } I suspect the issue is that tilde is the bitwise not operator in JavaScript. On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, 11:13 Richard Bellingham, ***@***.***> wrote:

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I can see what's happened. The key values and name values should be the same, but the tildes are being stripped from the names, meaning that they no longer match. If you change the keys to remove the tildes in the data you exported and then clear your skills and reimport, that will fix the problem. On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, 09:47 gutzumerken, ***@***.***> wrote: > Can you replicate the problem when you name one of your skills "~ XYZ"? > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#33 (comment)>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAK7N5UMNQBO6YJDWJPBMVDVUZTSTANCNFSM533SUQKQ> > . > You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: > ***@***.***> >

[gutzumerken]

Hm..
How do I clear all skills? I cant delete the ~ skills with the delete button..

I think I will export my data, crate a new game, import everything except the "~" skills and never ever use ~ again ^^

[Sk1mble]

If you select the option in the settings menu for "clear or override all skills" that should do it, otherwise use game.settings.set("fate-core-official", "skills", {}) in a code macro or the console to clear them.

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, 11:44 gutzumerken, ***@***.***> wrote: Hm.. How do I clear all skills? I cant delete the ~ skills with the delete button.. I think I will export my data, crate a new game, import everything except the "~" skills and never ever use ~ again ^^ — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#33 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAK7N5S2CNQ5IMF7CFGPDULVU2BIJANCNFSM533SUQKQ> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[gutzumerken]

Okay, thank you for your help! Much appreciated!