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[OWL-Fashioned]

First of all - thanks for this module. You just made my life as a GM so much easier. Eventhough I don't use Kanka and your module for that long yet, I'm still happily giggling, whenever I import an entry, because it just looks so awesome and clean. Not only have I searched for so long for a solution of how to streamline the transition of campaign info into Foundry, but also how to help my players to see the bigger picture of the entire campaign of Call of Cthulhu. - So I nearly don't dare to submit this request :-)

Everything works perfect and helps my players a lot, but I recognized that imported location journals don't list the characters / objects, who / which got this location as their "location entry". It is shown vice versa in the character's / object's entry though - a mirrored reference would be awesome :-)

Thank you for your awesome work! :-)

[eXaminator]

Hi @OWL-Fashioned, thank you for the kind words.

In regards to your request: This is not a trivial issue.

As far as I am aware (though I didn't look it up right now), Kanka does not supply this information via their API, thus the only way I could create such a list is by loading every single possible entity from Kanka and check every reference manually on whether it links to the current entity. This would add a lot of overhead, especially when syncing individual entities. An overhead that I'm not sure is worth.

One thing that MIGHT be a possibility is to only list the synced journal entries that reference back to the current entry. So if you have a location that is linked by two characters but you have only synced one of the characters to your foundry world, it would only show you a link to that one character on the locations entry. Would that be enough? In that case it is something that I could consider for a future release as it might be relatively easy to do.

[OWL-Fashioned]

Hi, thanks for your super quick reply.
That sounds absolutely great, but again, if it's too much work for too less outcome, it's totally okay to decline that request. :-)

[eXaminator]

I will think this over and leave this issue open for now. It won't be done soon but maybe I'll come back to it at some point.