Linked Roles - String Option

[fisherjacobc]

Suggestion

ability to have a string thing but the metadata/requirement could act like a boolean

In Action

Requirements

PUT request to https://discord.com/api/v10/applications/clientid/role-connections/metadata

[
  {
    "key": "gamerank",
    "name": "Rank In Game",
    "description": "Rank a user has in game",
    "type": 9 // new string application role connectionmetadata type
  }
]

This would be more for display, but in requirements it would act more as a boolean

Metadata body

PUT request to https://discord.com/api/v10/users/@me/applications/clientid/role-connection

{
  "platform_name": "My Game",
  "gamerank": "Elite III"
}

not sure if that makes sense, thanks!

[Tolga1452]

Just string can causes some problems. And probably most of people won't know the correct values. So I think we should be able to add some options to select like this:

[
  {
    "key": "gamerank",
    "name": "Rank In Game",
    "description": "Rank a user has in game",
    "type": 9,
    "options": [
        "Rank 1",
        "Rank 2",
        "Rank 3"
    ]
  }
]

[fisherjacobc]

Good point, there could be a string-matching option, lets say type 10 thats associated with a dropdown when u create a linked role

[1A3Dev]

This seems like a great idea and the example you included made me think that the ability to optionally specify an array of strings could be useful too (however the linked role would just check if the array contains a specified string). For example if a person had multiple "in-game ranks" the linked role could check if the array contains the specific rank that you'd want the role to link to.

[greysdawn]

+1 to the idea of having specific choices to select from. I'm planning to build an integration for people who have subscribed to me on various platforms, and I want to be able to link specific roles to specific tiers. I feel like integrations similar to this- where roles are based on a limited set of strings rather than something like a random number- would be best handled with some kind of string choices instead of the current workarounds which would be either:

• create a boolean metadata for each string (impossible with 5+ options)
• create an integer_equals metadata and assign effectively arbitrary numbers to the strings (very unintuitive if the options aren't ordered in a numbered way)

even if this was purely built with games in mind, there are tons of games with non-numbered ranks. likewise, there are tons of other situations where string options would be useful. i was actually surprised to see that this wasn't included on launch 😅

[ErdbeerbaerLP]

I also want this, but to display an in-game username instead.
This is explicitly wanted for the connection display, so it shows like this:

In this mockup the user has the boolean Linked = true and the String Username = "ErdbeerbaerLP"
This way other users can, in this case, see the minecraft ingame name when going to their profile. This Feature can also be applied to other already existing services like DeviantArt or Roblox if it ever gets implemented

[valdotle]

That can already be achieved using the platform_username field when setting user metadata. This should also better suit your usecase since metadata is checked against certain criteria and not for display-only purposes.