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Ironsides

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How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Topic Start: June 21, 2013, 05:32:46 PM »
I've seen it on the wiki before where someone has posted a full battle report and I want to do the same for the battles in Oligarch, but how do I preserve the battle report without messing up the colours or the order of it? I was thinking of doing screen grabs, but I would need a ton to collect every piece of the report.

Any advice/suggestions?

There will be more to come and it's totally worth keeping them on file!
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #1: June 21, 2013, 05:40:21 PM »
The first step to preserving just about anything in BM is just to save the HTML source of the page it's on.
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #2: June 21, 2013, 05:43:12 PM »
If you look at, e.g., this one, as a completely random example:

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Von_Genf_Family/Olivier/Shooting_Turkeys

It uses a nice infoboxm and the report itself is a pasted HTML. If you go on the source code of the battle report you can copy only the relevant parts and past it directly on the wiki. I remember it took some cleaning up, but nothing too fancy.
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #3: June 21, 2013, 06:25:53 PM »
As Anaris said, open the battle report itself from the scribe note link, and save the entire page. (Usually CTRL-S.) Once you have that, you have a copy of the HTML that you can use elsewhere. Someone once figured out how you could convert the HTML to wiki-code, or how to clean up the HTML to work on the wiki. The procedure is on the wiki somewhere. It's a lot of work, as the battle report formatting depends on the standard battlemaster CSS which is not available on the wiki.

You cannot just copy/paste the text you seen in your browser. You will end up with an illegible mess.
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #4: June 21, 2013, 06:35:30 PM »

I see, so this will take some time to do right. Cool, I've got a little project ahead of me.

How would I go about finding the way to convert HTML to wiki? VonGenf, is that how you did it? (Nice work by the way).
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #5: June 21, 2013, 06:59:50 PM »
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #6: June 21, 2013, 07:14:14 PM »
Quote from: Ironsides on June 21, 2013, 06:35:30 PM
How would I go tabout finding the way to convert HTML to wiki? VonGenf, is that how you did it? (Nice work by the way).

No, if you look at the wiki source this part is direct HTML, I only removed the tags that were badly interpreted. It would look much nicer if it was converted to wiki syntax.
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #7: June 21, 2013, 07:21:10 PM »
I just take screenshots and put them together with photoshop... :o
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #8: June 22, 2013, 01:46:22 AM »
Well I feel dumb.
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #9: June 22, 2013, 03:15:51 AM »

Nice work, Zaki! That solves a lot of complicated problems for me. Thank you!
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #10: June 22, 2013, 05:19:51 AM »
Wiki need a update to teach how to replace the banner thing. I'll do it later.
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #11: June 24, 2013, 06:54:25 AM »
Quote from: Miriam Ics on June 22, 2013, 05:19:51 AM
Wiki need a update to teach how to replace the banner thing. I'll do it later.
The banner thing? And thanks for contributing to the wiki, all help is needed.
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Re: How do I preserve a Battle Report?
« Reply #12: June 24, 2013, 09:06:55 AM »
Quote from: Zaki on June 21, 2013, 07:21:10 PM
I just take screenshots and put them together with photoshop... :o

There are screen shot tools that allow you to take one long shot even if it's multiple screens long. I don't remember the name, but I'm sure there are many.
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