All notable changes to SimpleRaidAssign will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

• Each boss can now hold an ordered list of categories (e.g. P1, P2, Adds, Burn) inside which attributions are grouped. Categories are optional: a boss with no category renders exactly like in v1.1, all its attributions in an implicit - Uncategorized - section at the top of the list.
• New + Add Category button next to the master "Select all" checkbox. It opens a preset dropdown (P1, P2, P3, P4, Pull, Adds, Burn, Transition, Heroism) plus a Custom... entry that pops up a text input (max 32 chars).
• Each category renders as a foldable header. Per-header controls: chevron v/> for fold, ^ / v to reorder among siblings, R (or double-click on the label) to rename inline, X to delete (silent on empty, popup confirmation on non-empty), + Attrib to add an attribution scoped to this category.
• New Category: dropdown in the right edit panel (between the marker dropdown and the context input) lets the selected attribution be reassigned to another category, to (none), or to a brand new category created on the spot via + New Category....
• Fold state is persisted per character in SimpleRaidAssignCharDB.ui.collapsed[<raidKey>:<encKey>:<catId>] (existing CharDB slot reused). Stale entries are garbage-collected on ADDON_LOADED.

• The [Announce] button now emits one chat message per category: [Boss - <CategoryName>] segment / segment / ..., in categoryOrder. The Uncategorized bucket emits a generic [Boss] ... message first (identical to the v1.1 format).
• Empty categories and categories whose every attribution is unchecked are silently skipped.
• The 255-char auto-split applies independently per block: each block is run through ChunkMessages with its own title.

• Each category header now has its own announce checkbox. State is tri-state: all (every attrib in the category checked) / some (mixed - visualised by dimming the checked texture) / none. Clicking cascades: all -> none, otherwise -> all.
• The master Select all / none checkbox is now tri-state across the whole encounter using the same rules.

• Attributions.lua API additions: AddCategory, RenameCategory, DeleteCategory, MoveCategory, IterateCategories, GetCategory, SetAttributionCategory. AddAttribution accepts an optional categoryId argument (defaults to nil -> Uncategorized - backwards compatible). MoveAttribution now scans for the closest neighbour with the same categoryId instead of the immediate one, so up/down arrows stay scoped to a category.
• Broadcast.lua API: BuildSegments accepts an optional categoryFilter argument (nil = legacy, "uncategorized", or a catId). BuildMessages now produces multiple titled blocks. Public signature of Announce and Preview is unchanged.
• Lazy migration: legacy v1.1 encounters acquire empty categories = {} and categoryOrder = {} the first time they are read via Attributions:GetEncounter. No ADDON_LOADED migration step.

• SRA1 protocol unchanged. New encounter fields (categories, categoryOrder) and the categoryId field on attributions are sent as-is via the generic serialiser. v1.1 clients store the unknown fields in their SavedVariables and round-trip them intact when re-pushing; their own UI only renders the flat list, as before.
• Export / Import (SRA1: prefix) format unchanged.

• Each attribution row in the editor now has a checkbox on its left edge that controls whether the attribution is included in the next chat broadcast. The checkbox toggles independently of the row selection — clicking it does not change which attribution is loaded in the right edit panel.
• A master "Select all / none" checkbox sits above the attribution scroll list. It is automatically synced with the row state (checked when every attribution is selected, unchecked otherwise) and a click flips the entire list between "all checked" and "all unchecked".
• New attributions default to selected, so the announce flow stays one-click when you do not need filtering.
• Selection state is held in a module-local table (deselectedAttribs) and is not persisted to SavedVariables — it resets between sessions on purpose, so a new login starts with everything selected.

• Broadcast.lua API now accepts an optional filter parameter (a { [attribId] = true } set) on BuildSegments, BuildMessages, Announce and Preview. When provided, only the listed attributions are included in the segments. When nil, the legacy "include everything" behavior is preserved.
• Announce / Preview button handlers now build a filter from the current row checkboxes and pass it to Broadcast. If no attribution is currently selected, both buttons print "No attributions selected to announce." (resp. preview) and return early instead of sending an empty message.
• The attribution scroll frame moved down ~24 px to make room for the master checkbox row above it; the rest of the panel layout (announce bar, edit panel, etc.) is unchanged.

First stable release. Brings the addon under its final name (SimpleRaidAssign), polishes the editor flow, ships import/export, adds the per-attribution note field, the player picker dropdown and the minimap button.

• Raids:Export(raidKey) serializes a single raid to a portable string with the format SRA1:<encoded>. The encoded body uses the existing self-contained serializer from Comms.lua (no Ace3 dependency, ASCII only, no raw newlines / pipes / tabs — safe to copy-paste into chat windows or forum posts).
• Raids:Import(text, newName) parses an exported string, validates the format and required fields, and creates a new raid with a fresh id and new metadata (createdAt/createdBy/updatedAt/updatedBy are reset to the current player and time). Errors are returned as (nil, "human readable message").
• Raids:PeekImportName(text) decodes just the original raid name from an import string without actually importing, used to pre-fill the "New name" input.
• New buttons on the Raid Summary screen: Import next to + New Raid in the header, and Export on every raid row (between Rename and Duplicate).
• Reusable Import/Export dialog (520×380, draggable) with a multi-line EditBox inside a ScrollFrame. Export mode highlights the string for instant Ctrl+C. Import mode shows an additional "New raid name" input that auto-fills with <original name> (imported) after a paste, and the user can override it freely.

• New note field on the attribution data model, edited via a multi-line EditBox (textarea-style) in the right edit panel under the players list.
• The note is included in chat broadcasts, appended in parentheses after the players list (e.g. Tanks: TankA, TankB (alterner les CDs)), with newlines collapsed and pipe characters stripped so the message stays valid.
• Notes are persisted in db.raids[].encounters[].attributions[].note and synced through the same comms protocol as the rest of the raid.

• New + From Group button in the right edit panel that opens a dropdown of the current raid / party members. Each entry is class-colored (warrior beige, mage cyan, etc.). Players already assigned to the current attribution are listed but disabled (no duplicates possible).
• The previous comma-separated playersBox was replaced by a vertical scrollable list of assigned players (each with a [X] remove button), plus a single-line text input + [Add] button below for manual entry. Manual typing keeps working in parallel for offline preparation when the named player is not in the current group.

• New Attributions:ClearMarker(raidKey, encounterKey, attribId) helper that explicitly sets the marker to nil without the previous { marker = false } patch hack.
• New [X] button next to the marker dropdown in the right edit panel — single click to clear the marker. The dropdown's (none) entry still works as a fallback.

• Draggable minimap button using the Grey Skull raid target icon as its texture (matches the addon's marker theme).
• Left-click toggles the main window, right-click pushes all raids to the group via the comms layer.
• Position persisted across sessions in NS.db.settings.minimapPos (angle in degrees on the minimap edge).
• Tooltip lists left/right click and drag actions.

• Renamed the addon from WowShiftAssign to SimpleRaidAssign. The folder, .toc filename, SavedVariables (SimpleRaidAssignDB / SimpleRaidAssignCharDB), slash commands (/sra, /simpleraidassign), addon-message comms prefix (SRA1), and all frame / popup / dropdown names have been updated. Existing data from WowShiftAssign is not auto-migrated; back up the old WTF/.../SavedVariables/WowShiftAssign.lua file if you want to keep your raid plans, then re-create them under the new name.
• Single Announce button instead of separate Announce EN / Announce FR toggles. The output is now always English. The previous announceLanguage setting was removed from DEFAULTS. The localization scaffolding in Broadcast.lua was simplified to a flat English-only label table, but the dual-language groundwork could be re-introduced later if needed.
• Default announce channel is now RAID_WARNING instead of RAID. Existing installs with a saved announceChannel keep their previous value (the merge is non-destructive).
• Preview renders raid target icons by substituting {rt1}..{rt8} chat tokens with |TInterface\TargetingFrame\UI-RaidTargetingIcon_N:0|t texture inlines before printing locally. The actual Announce flow still sends the raw tokens because WoW's chat parser handles them on the receiver side.
• Players counter on the Raid Summary now counts distinct player names across all bosses and attributions, instead of the raw sum of slot occurrences. A player assigned to three bosses is counted once.
• Broadcast message separator changed from | to /. The pipe character is reserved by WoW's chat protocol for escape codes (|cff...|r, |Hlink|h); using it as a free-text separator caused SendChatMessage to reject messages with "Invalid escape code".
• SafeSetText helper in the right edit panel: refuses to overwrite an EditBox while it has keyboard focus, preventing background events (ROSTER_UPDATED, DATA_UPDATED) from wiping the user's in-progress typing.
• CommitPendingEdits helper force-commits any focused right-panel EditBox (context, note, players input) before changing the selected attribution / boss, so pending text is saved against the correct id instead of being lost.
• Editor channel dropdown entries are now notCheckable = true for uniform left padding (the previously-checked entry had an extra checkbox indent the others lacked, breaking alignment on TBC Anniversary clients). Same fix applied to the marker dropdown.
• Window size increased from 820×520 to 820×600 to fit the new note textarea and the two-row players input.
• Roster module: legacy RAID_ROSTER_UPDATE / PARTY_MEMBERS_CHANGED events are now registered through a pcall-wrapped helper, since TBC Anniversary rejects the older event names.

• Static popup edit boxes (WSA_NEW_RAID, WSA_RENAME_RAID, WSA_DUPLICATE_RAID): on TBC Anniversary the field is exposed as self.EditBox instead of self.editBox. The popup handlers now go through a PopupEditBox(self) helper that tries self.editBox, then self.EditBox, then _G[self:GetName() .. "EditBox"] as a last resort.
• EasyMenu global removed in modern clients (including TBC Anniversary). Replaced with a local ShowEasyMenu polyfill that reproduces the historical Blizzard implementation (UIDropDownMenu_Initialize + ToggleDropDownMenu). Used by the boss picker and player picker dropdowns.
• Empty-state message on the Raid Summary screen was clipped because it was anchored on the 1×1 scroll child. It is now anchored on the panel itself with a centered JustifyH.
• ScrollFrame scroll children (raid summary list, boss sidebar, attribution list, players list, note textarea) are now resized via an AutoSizeScrollChild helper that hooks OnSizeChanged and OnShow, plus a one-shot OnUpdate tick. Without this fix, rows anchored TOPLEFT+TOPRIGHT collapsed to 0 px wide on the very first refresh, making children (X buttons, names) pile up at the same position.
• Multi-line note EditBox required an explicit non-zero size (SetSize(200, 100)) to receive clicks; without it the hit rect was zero and the field was un-focusable on the first show. Clicking anywhere in the backdrop now focuses the editbox so the user does not have to hit an existing line precisely.
• Pending edits lost on Announce: clicking the Announce button while still typing in the players input or note field would read stale data from the DB before the focus-loss handler ran. The Announce / Preview button click handlers now call CommitPendingEdits() first.
• Boss row in the sidebar wrapped long names onto two lines and overlapped the attribute counter. The row is now single-line with WordWrap(false), the title cap-anchored on the LEFT of the right-side counter so it truncates instead of wrapping.

• Shift-click absorber path: all the ChatEdit_GetActiveWindow / ChatEdit_InsertLink / SecureUnitButton_OnClick hook code was removed (~190 lines from Roster.lua). The original goal was to let the user shift-click a raid frame to assign the player to the current attribution, but the integration was unreliable across raid frame addons (ElvUI / oUF / Vuhdo all bypass the standard click flow). The new in-addon player picker dropdown covers the same use case more reliably and with no addon-side hooks.
• UI:IsReadyForShiftClick and UI:TryAbsorbPlayerLink entry points (no longer called).
• Announce FR button and the EN/FR language toggle in the announce bar.
• announceLanguage setting key from DEFAULTS.
• The old single-line playersBox / ParsePlayerList workflow is gone — the players section is now a structured list, not a comma-separated text field. Attributions.lua still ships ParsePlayerList / FormatPlayerList because they may be useful elsewhere, but the editor no longer uses them.

Complete pivot of the data model around raid plans and attributions. The earlier "role types" approach is removed — assignments are now structured as marker + players + context per boss, which matches how WoW raid coordination is actually expressed in game.

• New top-level raids concept: a raid is a named plan that groups multiple boss encounters (e.g. "SSC Tuesday Farm")
• Raid Summary home screen listing all saved raids, most recent edit first, with per-card counters (bosses, attributions, assigned players) and metadata (author, last edit time)
• Raid CRUD on the summary screen: + New Raid, Rename, Duplicate, Delete (with confirmation popup)
• Raids.lua module exposing Create, Rename, Delete, Duplicate, Iterate, CountEncounters, CountAttributions, CountAssignedPlayers

• Raid Editor view with a vertical sidebar of bosses + + Add Boss dropdown
• TBCBosses.lua reference data: full list of TBC raid bosses grouped by instance (Karazhan, Gruul, Magtheridon, SSC, Tempest Keep, Mount Hyjal, Black Temple, Zul'Aman, Sunwell Plateau)
• Adding a boss uses a two-level dropdown (instance → boss) populated from the reference data
• Instance name auto-filled from the boss name

• attribution = { marker (optional, 1..8), players (1..N), context (free text) }
• Markers may repeat within the same boss (e.g. two "Skull" attributions for different phases)
• Attributions.lua module with CRUD for both bosses (encounters) and attributions, plus AddPlayer / RemovePlayer / ParsePlayerList / FormatPlayerList helpers
• Middle-column attribution list: marker icon + context + class-colored player names
• Click an attribution row to select it (highlights)
• Right-column edit panel: marker dropdown (with "none" option), context text input, players text input, Delete Attribution button

• Hook on ChatEdit_InsertLink absorbs player links when the WSA window is open with an attribution selected
• Shift-clicking a player in the default Blizzard raid/party/unit frames adds the player directly to the currently selected attribution — no text field focus required
• Roster link extraction supports Hplayer:, Hunit: and plain [Name] link formats

• Broadcast.lua module builds localized chat strings for a boss's attributions
• Two buttons per boss: [Announce EN] [Announce FR], plus a channel dropdown (RAID, RAID_WARNING, PARTY, SAY, GUILD, OFFICER)
• Marker icons embedded via {rt1}..{rt8} chat tokens which the client converts to in-game raid target icons
• Message format: single concatenated line [Boss] Context1: A, B | {rt8} Context2: C, D | ...
• Auto-splits on | boundaries when a message exceeds the 255-character chat limit; sends multiple consecutive messages rather than truncating
• Graceful fallback to SAY if the selected channel requires a group the player isn't in
• Preview method prints the would-be messages to the local chat frame without sending

• Data schema: db.encounters is gone. All boss data is now nested under db.raids[raidKey].encounters[encounterKey].
• Comms.lua protocol version bumped to 2: push/pull units are now whole raids, not individual encounters. Last-write-wins reconciliation uses the raid's updatedAt.
• UI.lua rewritten around a two-screen navigation (Raid Summary → Raid Editor), with three columns in the editor: boss sidebar, attribution list, edit panel
• Core.lua DEFAULTS schema updated; settings.announceChannel added
• AssignData.lua slimmed down: the role-types list is removed. The file now exposes MarkerIcons (the 8 raid target markers with textures and {rtN} tokens) and keeps ClassColors plus a new ColorizeName helper.
• .toc interface version bumped to 20504; load order updated to pull in the new modules before UI
• Main window resized from 720x460 to 820x520 to fit the three-column editor

• Old Assignments.lua module (fully replaced by Attributions.lua)
• AssignData.RoleTypes and AssignData.EncounterTemplates (the whole "role type" concept is gone — attributions use a free-text context field instead)
• /wsa settings slash command hint (no settings panel yet, to be re-added in a later version)

Initial scaffold of the addon, modeled after the NodeCounter modular architecture.

• Addon initialization with account-wide (WowShiftAssignDB) and per-character (WowShiftAssignCharDB) SavedVariables
• Internal event bus (NS:RegisterCallback / NS:FireCallback) for module communication
• Deep copy and non-destructive merge defaults for safe SavedVariables migration
• Slash commands: /wsa, /wsa settings, /wsa sync, /wsa request, /wsa reset
• Static popup confirmation for destructive reset

• 13 built-in role types (Tank, Main Heal, Tank Healer, Raid Healer, Interrupt, Decurse, Magic Dispel, Tranq Shot, Mind Control, Kite, Carry, Raid Cooldown, Custom)
• Class color table with RAID_CLASS_COLORS fallback
• Encounter templates for Lady Vashj (SSC), Kael'thas (TK), Illidan (BT) and a Blank template

• Raid / party / solo group scanning with TBC + modern API compatibility
• Class detection and crude role hint per class (tank/melee/ranged/heal)
• Throttled rescans on GROUP_ROSTER_UPDATE, RAID_ROSTER_UPDATE, PARTY_MEMBERS_CHANGED, PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD
• Public iterators (Iterate, GetByClass, GetByRoleHint)
• Fires ROSTER_UPDATED callback

• CRUD layer for encounters, roles and slots
• Encounter creation from a template (auto-seeds roles)
• Role reordering, renaming, notes, clear, delete
• Player slot assign / unassign with duplicate protection
• updated / updatedBy metadata for last-write-wins synchronization
• ExportEncounter / ReplaceEncounter for the comms layer
• Fires DATA_UPDATED, ENCOUNTER_CREATED, ENCOUNTER_DELETED, ENCOUNTER_REPLACED

• Versioned addon-message protocol (WSA1) over RAID / PARTY
• Commands: PUSH <key> <encounter>, REQ
• Self-contained recursive serializer (no Ace3 dependency) supporting strings, numbers, booleans and nested tables
• Last-write-wins merge based on updated timestamp
• Auto-broadcast on local edits (toggle in settings)
• Compat shim for C_ChatInfo.SendAddonMessage / RegisterAddonMessagePrefix
• Wired to SYNC_PUSH_REQUEST and SYNC_PULL_REQUEST callbacks

• Main window (720x460), draggable, position persisted
• Two-column layout: encounter list + role editor
• Per-row class-colored slot display
• Add Role dropdown menu listing every built-in role type
• Per-role actions: Assign Me, Clear, Delete
• Bottom action bar: Push to Raid, Request Sync, Delete Encounter
• ElvUI compatibility (SetTemplate("Transparent")) with fallback backdrop
• Lazy creation on first toggle, refreshes on DATA_UPDATED and ROSTER_UPDATED

• package.sh script for local addon packaging (Bash)
• GitHub Actions workflow build-addon.yml for automated builds on pull requests (uploads versioned artifact)
• GitHub Actions workflow release.yml for automated GitHub Releases on merge to main, with idempotent tag check and changelog extraction for release notes