Make Changes
If you are making any changes, you should contact the community to share your ideas. Otherwise, it may result in duplicated effort or invalid data. That does not mean you have to have a conversation, more just an announcement so people are aware and can flag any potential problems.
FrontierNav's Change Model is append-only, meaning when you make a change, the next change requires the previous change. This ensures that changes are valid as a whole.
You can see the changes you have made by opening the Changes Sidebar from the Navigation Bar. Your changes are only local to you, no one else can see them unless if you create a change request and it is accepted (read below).
It is a good idea to regularly save your changes to keep a backup. If anything goes wrong down the line, you can always send the saved ZIP to an Admin to recover your changes.
Your open changes are automatically saved every 10 seconds for the current session, up to a maximum of 5 autosaved sessions. After which the oldest session is removed.
This is a safety net in case your web browser crashes or you accidentally close your tab. Do not rely on it too much as web browsers have limited storage. After doing substantial work always Save manually to have a safe copy on your device.
You can load your saved ZIP to continue where you left off. That means any new data since your save will not be available.
To apply your changes on top of the latest data, you can extract and load the changes.json from your ZIP save.
When loading a changes.json on its own, your changes are re-applied over the latest published data. This means your changes might conflict if there is new data which your changes might overwrite. For example, you might have created a "Small Potion" entity, but then someone else also made one and published it first.
Whenever your changes conflict, you will need to discard them to continue. To avoid losing your changes, you will be given the option to Save them, after which you can send them to an Admin to fix.
If you make a mistake and want to go back to a previous state, you can open up the Changes Sidebar, LeftClick on the change you want to go back to and LeftClick "Rewind". This will reset the data and re-apply all of your changes up to that point and discard the rest.
In order to publish your changes for others to see, you need to create a Change Request. Once you have done so, notify an Admin so that we're aware of it. Admins might be busy and may not respond immediately so give it up to a day before contacting again.
A change request will go through multiple stages:
- Open: The request is awaiting approval by an admin.
- Closed: The request has been closed and won't be merged. This usually happens after a discussion between admins and the author.
- Merged: The request has been accepted and merged.
You can discard your changes once you have made a Change Request. If you need to recover your changes, you can do so by clicking Load on the Change Request. This will apply your changes on top of the latest data, similar to loading a changes.json.
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