It’s annoying when you’re searching spells or monsters and half of them are ones you can’t access. I usually go into the advanced filters and choose the sources I own, but as I buy more, I keep having to find them all in the list. Is there a way to filter by all the sources I own, in one option?
If you open the Advanced Filters tab you'll see that you can filter by Source. Not Source Category, just Source. Then you pick the books you own and apply the filter.
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Canto alla vita alla sua bellezza ad ogni sua ferita ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
There's no checkbox for 'filter to owned sources' or 'filter to sources I have access to' (in case you have content shared with you through a campaign). What you can do is use the option to filter by source, select all the sources you have access to, run a search, and bookmark the result to use as your new starting page when searching. The filters are part of the bookmarked URL, so you'll only have to update that bookmark as you acquire new sources.
If you open the Advanced Filters tab you'll see that you can filter by Source. Not Source Category, just Source. Then you pick the books you own and apply the filter.
I'm pretty sure that's what pavilionaire is doing. Unfortunately we can't save the filter settings (unless I'm missing something) so he has to do that again and again and again. Permanent/saveable filter settings seem like an excellent suggestion for a feature to be added to DDB.
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Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
Yep, this is deeply annoying and people have been asking for years.
I own five or so source books, I do not want to scroll through a list of all books just to check the ones I own in the encounter builder, for example. Such an annoying waste of time.
Not to mention that I often can't quite remember if I own a book on D&D Beyond or not, or what its proper title is.
I have general searches saved in my bookmarks. For example, I will filter sources for the ones I own when I use the monster search, and save the url. That way, I only have to do it once for each category. idk if you can do it for the encounter builder though.
The devs really need to get on this. Mark the books you have access to in the sources section owned or shared. If it true that people have been asking for this for years, it makes me wonder why it has been over looked. It cannot be all the difficult to mark the books you have access to.
The devs really need to get on this. Mark the books you have access to in the sources section owned or shared. If it true that people have been asking for this for years, it makes me wonder why it has been over looked. It cannot be all the difficult to mark the books you have access to.
If they didn't do it the way they are now, people couldn't have their screens filled with content they can't use and realize they need to put more money into the system to make it really sing.
It must be obvious because everyone is behaving as if it is obvious, but where does one find "Advanced Filters"? I don't see it in or around the Search field or on the Results page other than the round default filter buttons.
It must be obvious because everyone is behaving as if it is obvious, but where does one find "Advanced Filters"? I don't see it in or around the Search field or on the Results page other than the round default filter buttons.
Not sure on PC as I’m on my phone right now but if you are looking for monsters you go to the Game Rules menu>monsters. When it loads you have circles for Beasts, Aberrations, etc. below that a search box for Monster Name, then Advanced filters is visible below that. On PC it might be off to the side. I don’t remember
It’s annoying when you’re searching spells or monsters and half of them are ones you can’t access. I usually go into the advanced filters and choose the sources I own, but as I buy more, I keep having to find them all in the list. Is there a way to filter by all the sources I own, in one option?
If you open the Advanced Filters tab you'll see that you can filter by Source. Not Source Category, just Source. Then you pick the books you own and apply the filter.
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
There's no checkbox for 'filter to owned sources' or 'filter to sources I have access to' (in case you have content shared with you through a campaign). What you can do is use the option to filter by source, select all the sources you have access to, run a search, and bookmark the result to use as your new starting page when searching. The filters are part of the bookmarked URL, so you'll only have to update that bookmark as you acquire new sources.
Birgit | Shifter | Sorcerer | Dragonlords
Shayone | Hobgoblin | Sorcerer | Netherdeep
I'm pretty sure that's what pavilionaire is doing. Unfortunately we can't save the filter settings (unless I'm missing something) so he has to do that again and again and again. Permanent/saveable filter settings seem like an excellent suggestion for a feature to be added to DDB.
Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
It's not a new request: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/9533-i-want-to-see-only-my-purchased-book-when-i-search
Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
Yep, this is deeply annoying and people have been asking for years.
I own five or so source books, I do not want to scroll through a list of all books just to check the ones I own in the encounter builder, for example. Such an annoying waste of time.
Not to mention that I often can't quite remember if I own a book on D&D Beyond or not, or what its proper title is.
I have general searches saved in my bookmarks. For example, I will filter sources for the ones I own when I use the monster search, and save the url. That way, I only have to do it once for each category. idk if you can do it for the encounter builder though.
The devs really need to get on this. Mark the books you have access to in the sources section owned or shared. If it true that people have been asking for this for years, it makes me wonder why it has been over looked. It cannot be all the difficult to mark the books you have access to.
If they didn't do it the way they are now, people couldn't have their screens filled with content they can't use and realize they need to put more money into the system to make it really sing.
It must be obvious because everyone is behaving as if it is obvious, but where does one find "Advanced Filters"? I don't see it in or around the Search field or on the Results page other than the round default filter buttons.
Not sure on PC as I’m on my phone right now but if you are looking for monsters you go to the Game Rules menu>monsters. When it loads you have circles for Beasts, Aberrations, etc. below that a search box for Monster Name, then Advanced filters is visible below that. On PC it might be off to the side. I don’t remember
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https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/397599/EZD6-Core-Rulebook?
Ah yes, it's under most of the subcategories of Game Rules. I was looking in the main search field on the masthead. Obvious in retrospect. Thank you!