Alright, So, Here's the deal, I'd originally planned for a global board for inter-order communication, but it's been brought to my attention they'd work better just for each order. So In my efforts to make this possible, I've come across a small bother.

This is the current declarations for the boards.

GLOBAL_BOARD_DATA boards[MAX_BOARD] =
{
    { "General",  	"General discussion                         ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_INCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Ideas",	  	"Suggestion for improvement                 ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_NORMAL, 60, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Announce", 	"Announcements from Immortals               ", 0, LEVEL_IMMORTAL, "all", DEF_NORMAL, 60, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Areas",	  	"Area questions, suggestions…             ", 0, 1, "all", DEF_NORMAL, 60, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Personal", 	"Personal messages                          ", 0, 1, "all", DEF_EXCLUDE, 28, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Quest",  	"Questing Board                             ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_INCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "History",  	"History and Role Play Board                ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_INCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Avatar",  	"Avatar Information/Run Board               ", LEVEL_AVATAR, LEVEL_AVATAR, "all", DEF_INCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Immortal",   "Immortal Information/Discussion Board      ", LEVEL_IMMORTAL, LEVEL_IMMORTAL, "all", DEF_INCLUDE, 21, NULL },
    { "Council",  	"Council Information                        ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_EXCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Order",  	"Order Information/Run Board                ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_EXCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Guild",  	"Guild Information/Run Board                ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_EXCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Nation",  	"Nation Information/Run Board               ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_INCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Trade",  	"Item Trade Board                           ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_INCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE }
};

These are the ones I'm specifically interested in changing.

{ "Council",  	"Council Information                        ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_EXCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Order",  	"Order Information/Run Board                ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_EXCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Guild",  	"Guild Information/Run Board                ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_EXCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },
    { "Nation",  	"Nation Information/Run Board               ", 0, 2, "all", DEF_EXCLUDE, 21, NULL, FALSE },

Instead of Defaulting to exclude all from the list of recipients, I'd prefer to just force them to include the name of their clan/guild/order/nation in the recipients list. The problem is, that information is stored at ch->pcdata->(clan/council/nation)>->name. And I've tried several approaches that have failed so far.. Any advice/pointers/bits of code that could help me finish this would be most appreciated.

You could just do a quick hack in the gnote write function, if board->name == "Council" & ch->pcdata->council, then enter ch->pcdata->council->name

That would work, but I'd like to save hackish attempts for a last resort. :tongue: