Unable to link items from Trade Post to Chat

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Posted by: Icethorn.6570

Icethorn.6570

When you Shift Click on an item in the Trade Post it should be linked to the Chat Window.

Instead the Chat Window displays a NULL which appears as "".

Please fix this to properly pass the object to the Chat Window so it can be properly shared with other players.

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Posted by: Khisanth.2948

Khisanth.2948

There are a bunch of items that simply can’t be linked for whatever reason. Can’t link from TP or with chatcodes.

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

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According to a dev post during the reddit AMA, the code that powers chat codes is much more complicated than it appears to us. Chat codes are used to produced standard snippets of text, for items, for dialogue, for locations, etc. After trolls starting using the reverse-engineered codes to spam /map, ANet put in a bunch of restrictions. My guess is that the filters are a bit too aggressive, suppressing legit codes as well as invented or game-use-only ones.

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Posted by: Ester Sauter

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Which items specifically? This works internally with the random ones I picked.

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Posted by: AndyS.5630

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For example Marks of Penetration and Talismans of Penetration cannot be linked.

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I tried those internally and they worked, I’ll go see if they’re in the trading post on live

edit: they are and I just put them into chat using CTRL click and SHIFT click. They’re both sitting in my inventory.

I tried them again from the trading post and they both linked. I did hit the ‘Your message was suppressed due to excessive messaging’, but changing my zone cleared that.

I’m not sure what you’re doing that I"m not

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Posted by: nottsgman.8206

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I just tried with some random things. the 7 things in the tp window were the things I tried linking. you can see the result in the chat window. not sure if this is consistent or if it’s just me

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70 ‘mains’ and waiting for more slots
| 61 Asura | 5 Charr | 2 Norn | 1 Human | 1 Sylvari |

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just adding: I bought the first two items on the tp list that were not linking. when I had them in my bag they linked from my bag, and from the tp listing.

Edit: I put them in the bank, and they still linked from the tp. I then used them in the mystic forge, and now they are no longer linking from the tp.

70 ‘mains’ and waiting for more slots
| 61 Asura | 5 Charr | 2 Norn | 1 Human | 1 Sylvari |

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Posted by: Syviana.8479

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It’s happening to me too.
For example: “Toxic spore skin” and almost every other item from armor skins (only “Desert Rose Skin” “Holographic Dragon Wings Skin” and “Zephyr Rucksack Skin” work from this category).
Also “Endless Ley-Line Anomaly Tonic” doesn’t work.
The same exos as OP (“Adam” “Ambrosia” “Anura” and moreeee too)
“Amulet of triple curosity”, “Saphire Pendant”, “Emerald Pendant”
“Signet of Grenth”, “Circle of Arah”
“Poly-luminescent Undulating Refractor (Black)” (all colors)
All of the Kaiser skins.
Also any permanent contract, “Nightfury Skin”, “Unopened Endless Bottle of Batwing Brew”, “Mystic Chest”, “Recipe: Keeper’s Spire”, “Endlees Silk Brocade Clothing Tonic” and probably way more.
Few of the things I have problems my friends have too since I asked them if they can link them when I noticed.

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Posted by: Ester Sauter

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I got it to happen on live, thank you everyone for your help tracking this down. I’ll send it to our Engineers, no promises on when it will be fixed however.

Appreciate all the help!

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Posted by: Icethorn.6570

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Which items specifically? This works internally with the random ones I picked.

If they are in your inventory you can shift click and they work fine.
However if you shift click the item directly from the Trade Post screen (not in your inventory), they do not link. instead it links a NULL data set.

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Posted by: Icethorn.6570

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I would recommend that they check how the object is being passed from the TP to the player. It may be that the object is not being instantiated correctly when it is attached. That would result in the player’s link command being a NULL set.

Or possibly a Get/Set command which is meant to pass a member from the TP array to the player. In that case check the GET command from the TP and the SET command to the player object.

Without knowing your layout these are mere guesses, just what I would try checking for first as common debugging.