user guide contribution Quick and Dirty Migration Tutorial

[bwatford]

Quick and Dirty Migration Tutorial

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If you are trying to import stuff from original Myth-Weavers to the new Baldr Myth-Weavers you can do so by copy/paste.  

 

1. Just select the entire post with your mouse and click copy. (As you see it on Old MW, not the bbcode)  
   
    
2. Come over to a new thread on Baldr and click paste.  It will look all wonky, white background behind lettering, etc. Now just select "paste as plain text at the bottom of the message where it pops up after you paste.  This will post the new content in plain text while keeping your line-breaks, etc..
   
   
   
    
3. Then you will need to reformat it on the new site using the posting editor.  That way your post is assured to look right under the new site and on all devices and themes.
   
    
4. Now insert any images by first going to the old MW site and right click on the image and use "Copy Image Link".
   
   
   5. Now come back over to the new message, place your cursor where you want the image and use the bottom right "Other Media" button to select Insert Image from URL
   
   
   You can double click the image or Ctrl-Right Click to get options to float an image left or right or to resize the image to your liking.
   
   
   
   6. Save your new post.

 

Warning: If you try to keep formatting from the old MW copy/paste it will have issues on the new site as it handles a lot of things differently to account for screen size (mobile, tablet, & desktop) as well as themes.  When in doubt use the preview button to see how your post looks on different devices.  You also can change themes at the bottom of the page to see how your post looks in different themes. (Note, please save your post first before changing themes or you will lose it.  Yep, I learned the hard way.) It is always best t just copy/paste plain text only and reformat with the new editor.

 

Things of Note:

OOC/Spoiler/Private tags will not come over in the copy/paste.  You will need to copy those over and create them where needed.  This is because the new site handles their creation much differently than bbcode did.

 

It sounds complicated but it really is not, and much faster than you think it would be after you do it a couple of times.

 

Best practices I have found so far:

 

Text
- Never select black as a color for text.  Use (Default) so that it properly changes with the theme that the user is using so it doesn't wash out on the dark theme. 

 

Images

• Images that are going to be floated are best set to 150px as we have a little less width to work with due to having the die roller on the right. If someone wants to see a larger version all they have to do is click the image in Bladr.
• Images that are to be centered by themselves (no float) and you don't want full size is best at 300px as they show well on both desktop and mobile.
• If you need a picture to be full size, don't set a size at all and Baldr will always size the picture to the maximum width available.

 

Font Sizes (these seem to work best across multiple devices)

• Headers I set to 24
• Sub Headers to 18
• Text to default size

 

The above guide is not perfect, it is, as said. A down and dirty version. I am sure someone will do a much better version as time allows and more users get used to the format.

[bwatford]

** 5/12/2022 - Updated tutorial to cover images and added screenshots.

[QuirkyJoe]

Thanks so much, bwatford. Really appreciate your help.

[bwatford]

12 minutes ago, QuirkyJoe said:

Thanks so much, bwatford. Really appreciate your help.

No problem.  Glad I could help.

[Antares90]

I know it's an old thread but I want to say thanks as well. Managed to find a template for a sheet I wanted and after some work I managed to make it work thanks to you.

[bwatford]

Glad I could help.

[igordragonian12]

I just now, turned to baldr..

Umm..

I guess things are still get worked on...

I hope this is the right place to ask about it-

but I have LOT of stuff from my MW campgains.

So, I "by hand" have to copy paste every and single post?

Do I get it correctly?

[bwatford]

The post on OGMW are not going away. They will always be available to link to and reference in some fashion.

You just need to move the most important things over and start the game up here with links to the old game messages on OGMW.

So the game here will just be a continuation of the game there. No need to copy it.

Eric has not given up on a migration tool to help but the architecture here is much different and not everything will convert as some of the bbcode on OGMW is not standard, and dice, private tags, spoilers, etc work off hrml here and not bbcode.

Make sense?