View All Incoming Links to a Dialogue Entry

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ds2497
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View All Incoming Links to a Dialogue Entry

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I have a quick question. I’m about to delete a Dialogue Entry, but I’m not sure which Conversations are linked to it. Is there a way to check this in the editor?

Additionally, I’d like to know if the editor’s search function can target specific fields. For example, is it possible to search specifically within the Condition field for something like CheckActor("John"), or does the search only handle plain text? I also noticed that using keywords with double quotes doesn’t seem to return any results. Do you have any advice on this?
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Re: View All Incoming Links to a Dialogue Entry

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I can add some of these features. Currently search goes through text as well as the Sequence, Conditions, and Scripts fields. There's not currently any way to specify only to search in Script fields for example. What search features would be helpful?

There's no feature to report incoming links to a dialogue entry. The closest is clicking on a dialogue entry and looking at the incoming link arrows within the same conversation. (When you click on an entry, the link arrows for its incoming and outgoing links are colored differently.) I'll add a feature to report this in the next update.
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It would be awesome if the incoming links feature is added in future updates! Honestly, I always thought that feature must be there, so I kept looking for it. I'm glad I finally asked.

As for the search, if incoming links are shown, there’s really no need to search by specific fields. The reason I asked was just to see if I could check incoming links. But, if my search includes double quotes, how should I go about it? For example, I have a character ID "soldier," and a custom method Heal to heal a target. If I want to see how many times this target was healed, searching for Heal("soldier") doesn’t show anything. The only way to search is by using just Heal or soldier to avoid the quotes, but that could pull up stuff like Heal("Monster") or Attack("soldier"), which gets a bit messy...
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Re: View All Incoming Links to a Dialogue Entry

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Hi,

I'll switch the search to use regular expressions. That should give you the power to search however you want.
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Re: View All Incoming Links to a Dialogue Entry

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The regular expression serch works! Thank you so much!

I'll be Looking forward to the incoming links feature update then!
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