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Adding a spot for Mob Names in both triggers and timers

QuattQuatt
in General ACT Discussion
This has sort of bugged me for years.   Thought I might request it now to scratch that itch.  It would be useful for there to be a spot for Mob Names in the trigger and in timers. In timers some use the category field  for the zone name and some use it for mob names. I am a zone name person.  It would even be  better if it grouped the triggers by zone name, then mob name then trigger name.  A blank name would be valid (it applies to all mobs in zone) or a specific mob name.   Would make sharing them easier.  if the triggers were group like this then you would not need to "add" a level but rather people could just look for the start and end of a group by highlighting the triggers.   Just a thought and maybe you have already thought and dismissed the idea.  Thanks for considering.

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  • EQAdituEQAditu
    edited November 2025
    The category, as you know, has a double-duty for restricting a timer from activating.  There's no set way that you have to use this and you pointed out, some choose either.  If you want an alternate way of organizing things, you could use the Custom Tooltip field.  Aside from showing that tooltip on timer mouse-hover, you can also search by its value.

    Custom Triggers don't really have an alternate searchable field.  The "Timer or Tab name" field can have arbitrary text in it if you didn't use those features, but it's not searchable.  Instead, I might suggest regex comments.  If you prefixed a trigger with a comment, it would probably end up at the top of a category and alphabetized with the comment text.

    (?#-- some comment --)some regex

    You can see examples of this in the 2nd and 3rd categories in this screenshot:


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