[BUG] Eden: @STR_prefix syntax doesn't work for localized overviewText in mission.sqm

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In Eden, overviewText can be entered via Attributes\General, and will be included in mission.sqm.  The tooltip states that @STR_prefix format can be used to add localized overviewText from a stringtable.  This is not true.  After many hours of testing, apparently the only way that localized overviewText can be added to mission.sqm is to manually edit the file and add a string in this format:

 

class ScenarioData
{
    author="Bohemia Interactive";
    overviewText=$STR_OVERVIEW_1_8;

     ...

 

and then the mission must be exported as an addon pbo (a mod). 

 

Please fix Eden ("preprocessor"?) so that the @STR_prefix format can be used to add localized overviewText to a mission that will work if mission is exported as normal mission pbo rather than an addon pbo.

 

More info is here and in subsequent posts, including a sample mission:

 

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/189982-porting-mission-from-arma-2/#entry3022544

 

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I assume I should enter bug report here, as tracker is still down....

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I tried this only with SP missions.  Note that the stringtable.xml is in my mission folder, and thus NOT in a separate pbo.