Re: Saving Portal Welcome Message

It won’t be as straight forward as entering your message though.

you'll need to make a code string to get a message to broadcast correctly 

Hi, do you have a link to teach me how to write a code string, i am a php programmer, but code strings for the game are new to me. When i click on rules editor at the bottom of the tree it does nothing, its not a link like the rest of the portal tree is.     Is the code it just a DOS command or HTML string ?

Ok i found a resource...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQthH64fIA8

Hi, yes i found some youtube videos, thanks for the reply.   I too have not been able to get the message to display when the editor is not available or when entering the server.   

I am familiar with the idea behind the logic blocks.  In php we use events, functions and methods which are based on the same principle, doing a specific job when called.  So i get it when for instance the event OnPlayerJoinGame is called, the action will only execute when a player joins the game.     So the rules editor i do understand now after the video i watched, ill just have to play around with the Event options. 

However, when the editor is not available, what can be done.   Why DICE did not just allow the saving of the message and winner message fields in the local DB i dont know, seems it could have been added pretty easily by just adding two more fields to the DB and two more values to the array.

Looking at all the drop down options, i do see where it does have alot of options that seem to be PHP related such as if, when, append array, and many others.   So ill play with this and see if i can get it working.  

Have a look at the custom experiences and then choose modify then go into the editor, it shows you the code breakdown and what as selected, that is a big help....  

Anyway, if you figure something out please share, and i will do the same.....   Thanks again 🙂

Well after playing around with it using a very simple code when player dies and then displaying a test message, i could not get it to display anything when the player died.   So my observation is that the message feature does not work from within the editor.    And i have still not figured out how to address specifically the "Welcome Message" and "Match Message" fields (on the portal form) from within the editor.

Doing it that way we dont need the welcome message input from the form, we can show it as a custom message to all players.   Perfect solution!!   Thank you so much 🙂