How to make an objective? Ive never been able to make one

[Xsi9mm]

Please someone make an example mission on the steps on making a an objective and different kind of objectives. please respond as soon as possible, thanks!

[Mandoble]

Inside your briefing file:

<hr>
<p><a name = "OBJ_1"></a>Go straight South and discover enemy troops.</p>
<hr>
<hr>
<p><a name = "OBJ_2"></a>Destroy enemies.</p>
<hr>

As an example.

Then, to check an objetive as done

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"1" objStatus "DONE"
To check an objetive as failded

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"1" objStatus "FAILED"
You may execute objStatus inside activation fields of triggers or scripts.

[Xsi9mm]

uh how does it know what my objective is the briefing is just text how do i designate my objective?

[hoz]

OBJ_1 = "1"
OBJ_2 = "2"
etc.

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<p><a name = "OBJ_1"></a>Go straight South and discover enemy troops.</p>
the OBJ_1 is the first objective the text following it is the text.

[h-]

Aaand, just to confuse:

The objective in the briefing html code does not have to be OBJ_1..

Sometimes when you are building a large or a complex mission (with multiple hidden objectives etc.) it can be easier to name the objectives with a more descriptive name, so you can use for example

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<p><a name = "OBJ_HeadSouthAndReconForNME"></a>Go straight South and discover enemy troops.</p>And then you would tick that objective done with

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"HeadSouthAndReconForNME" objStatus "done"

how does it know what my objective is the briefing is just text

I have no clue if this is even close, but:
The game has instructions to 'read' the html file and weed out certain things flagged with some special tag, in this case the tag is OBJ_
Whenever the html reading thingy (yes, very professionally put  ) finds such a tag it will then read what is written after OBJ_ until it reaches html code again. At that point the game 'memorizes' the text and it can be used with certain commands, in this case objStatus..

[Xsi9mm]

Ah ok thanks!