Jamaba help

[Pringle]

I'm having trouble finding information on the <tag> part of the Jamba commands. What is <tag> used for? I see how it's replaced with "all" a lot. Is it used to send a command to a specific slave? If so, can I send to multiple slaves with the same slash command? In that case, are they just separated by a space?

I apologize if this is readily available in the monster Jamba thread, but the search feature didn't find what I'm asking, and I'm not prepared to read through each reply in hopes I find it. I also didn't see much reference to <tag> on the Jamba website.

Thanks,
-Steve

[Jafula]

TAGS

Tags are "tags" that you give to your characters. They are freeform text, so you can type in anything you like, but as a rule, stick to lowercase words.

You can edit a characters tags in the /jamba interface. Navigate to the "tags" tab on this screen. You can select a character to edit tags for, then add and remove tags using the controls on this screen.

By default all characters get the "all" tag.

Jamba uses tags where ever you see a <tag> placeholder in a Jamba command line.

The <tag> placeholder can only be replaced by one word (not many).

EXAMPLE 1: FOLLOW

One thing that all multi-boxers use is some form of follow for the slave characters to follow the master character. Jamba manages some aspects of follow for you. Take the command

/jamba-follow master <tag>

Generally you see the command written as

/jamba-follow master all

which means that all your characters will follow the master as they all have the "all" tag.

This is fine for getting from A to B, but in combat, say, imagine if you had 3 characters, a warrior tank (master), a rogue dps (slave) and a mage dps (slave). You want the rogue to follow your warrior into battle, but the mage to stay and dps from a distance. You might give the rogue a tag called "melee" and then in a seperate macro, with a seperate keybind, have the command

/jamba-follow master melee

So coming up to a battle, you stop follow on all characters by pressing a movement key. Then you press the melee follow key, and the rogue follows the warrior into melee range, while the mage stays where it is.

If later you add another rogue to your mix, you can give it the "melee" tag and it will follow the warrior as well. Likewise, add another mage, and don't give it a "melee" tag and it will stay put.

EXAMPLE 2: BUYING REAGENTS

Jamba-Merchant allows your characters to automatically buy items when they visit a vendor. I use this functionality to stock up on Ankhs for my shamans, Arcane Powder for my mage, Holy Candles for my priest, etc.

When you add an item to buy to the buy list, you also give this item a tag as well as the amount to stock up to. So Ankhs get the "shaman" tag, Holy Candles get the "priest" tag, Arcane Powder gets the "mage" tag. My shamans also get the "shaman" tag, priest gets the "priest" tag and mage gets the "mage" tag.

Now when my characters visit a vendor, only the priest buys Holy Candles, only the shamans buy Ankhs and only the mage buys Arcane Powder. This system allows the merchant management to be done in one place on one toon and then those settings pushed out to the other characters (which saves the time of 4 other sets of configuring for a 5 boxer).

EXAMPLE 3: TARGET COMMANDS

Jamba-Target has a tag section where you can specify what characters certain target commands go to. For instance, target moon has a tag of "mage" and only my mage gets the target moon command. (I have a modified the macro for this to moon command to use the polymorph spell, but this edit macro functionality isn't in the public release yet, its coming out in the next release).

Hope that helps.

[algol]

Well that's pretty cool.

But it makes me curious...is "master" a tag? E.g. would this work:

/jamba-follow thehealer melee

given appropriate definitions?

[Jafula]

Well that's pretty cool.

But it makes me curious...is "master" a tag? E.g. would this work:

/jamba-follow thehealer melee

given appropriate definitions?No, master is part of the command. What you could use for this is

/jamba-follow target <character> <tag>

so to get your melee toons to follow your character bob, you would use

/jamba-follow target bob melee

Would like the ability to follow a particular unit based on its tag? I could add this command to Jamba, problem being which toon to choose if more than one has the same tag.