Guild Configuration Format

This page documents the ugly details of GreenWall's configuration. Unless you have a large confederation and need to minimize the size of your configuration or you are trying to do something fancy, you probably want to read the Guild Quickstart guide (GUILD_QUICKSTART.md) instead.

All configuration for general guild chat is stored in the "Guild Information" field in the "Guild" window (J). The block of configuration text will be read by GreenWall on the member machines. The benefit of this approach is that a member can join and use GreenWall without having to perform any special configuration.

Directive Format

All configuration directives use the following format.

GWx:arglist

Versions older than 1.3 use the following format. The older format is still supported after 1.3 for backwards compatibility.

GW:x:arglist

The x is substituted with a specific opcode and the arglist portion is a
colon separated list of arguments.

Required Directives

Common Channel

This specifies the custom chat channel to use for all general confederation bridging.

Op Code: c

Arguments:

• Channel Name
• Channel Password

Example:

GWc:topSekrit:E88l2S8qXq5m

Peer Co-Guild

You must specify one of these directives for each co-guild in the confederation, including the co-guild you are configuring.

Op Code: p

Arguments:

• Guild Name: The full name of the co-guild. This must match the name of the guild exactly, with the exception of substitution variables.
• Guild Tag (optional): A terse, unique identifier that will be shown if the member enables tagging. If this argument is not given the full co-guild name will be used.

The peer co-guild directives must be identical between all co-guild configurations after all variable substitution has been applied.

Example:

GWp:Alea Iacta Est Fortuna:fortuna

Optional Directives

Officer Channel

This specifies the custom chat channel to use for officer chat confederation bridging.

Op Code: a

Arguments:

• Channel Name
• Channel Password

Example:

GWa:secretSquirrels:y7Gl5058j68f

Substitution Variable

This specifies a variable that will can be used in the peer co-guild directives to reduce the size of the configuration.

Op Code: s

Arguments:

• Value: A string that occurrences of the variable will be substituted with.
• Name: A single-character, case-sensitive name for the variable.

If specified, any occurrence of a $ character followed by the variable name will be substituted with the configured value. Since the $ character is not allowed in the name of a guild, there is no escape sequence for the character.

The parser is single-pass, so the variable definition must precede the use of the variable in the configuration.

Example:

GWs:Alea Iacta Est:n
GWp:$n Verendus:verendus
GWp:$n Salus:salus

Minimum Version

The minimum version of GreenWall that the guild management wishes to allow members to use.

Op Code: v

Arguments:

• Version: The minimum version allowed.

Example:

GWv:1.3.0

Channel Defense

This option specifies the type of channel defense hat should be employed.

This feature is currently unimplemented.

Op Code: d

Arguments:

• Mechanism:
  • k = Kick unauthorized participants.
  • kb = Kick and ban unauthorized participants.

If left unspecified, no channel defense will be employed.

Example:

GWd:k

Deprecated Directives

Option

This is the old format for specifying configuration options.

Op Code: o

Arguments:

• Key/Value Pair: A key and value in the format key=value.
  

The value associated with the key mv will be interpreted as the minimum version and value associated with the key cd will be interpreted as the channel defense setting.