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Page Updated:   2022-02-07

This is related to Editing(coding) Character Sheets, which require Pro info to be able to use. Main Page: Building Character Sheets

This page lists observed Bugs and odd quirks of the Character Sheet-system, especially those related to coding, editing & updating character sheets.

• See Building Character Sheets#Restrictions for quirks that aren't explicit bugs.
• See BCS/Updates for previously fixed bugs

Note: The "Month Year" mention at end is a guaranteed last observation of the bug.

Bugs

General

Sheet code/editing bugs that doesn't fit other categories.

• Using the word eval anywhere in the sheet code will stop everything from working. Roll20 have put is as a security measure to prevent eval to be used even in a roundabout way. You cant have attribute or class names that includes it.
  • this also prevent you from import google fonts that happen to have "eval" as part of the name
• using optgroup in <select> doesn't work on custom sheets, even though it works on existing sheets like Free Spacer
  • discussion^(Forum) May 2021
  • workaround: CSS_Wizardry#Optgroup
• "Newly-dropped characters now must fully resolve before closing the window"
  • rapport^(Forum) by Keith May 2021
  • possibly fixed
• changing default value of attributes will change untouched values of existing sheet. May 2021
  • Ex. <input value="a"> to <input value="b">
  • example of instance of this bug being reverted
• Unicode character in CSS "content" breaks roll templates^(Forum) Andreas J. (talk) 14:49, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
• certain emojis & unicode characters are removed from character sheets, so can't be reliably used. Use images instead. Dec 2021
• translation
  • translation special character bug discussion^(Forum) May 2021
    • avoid placing symbols & special characters in translations
  • language-dependent sheet changes doesn't seem to work. See #9053 for details. Summer 2021

Repeating Sections

• position dissociating for action buttons in rep sections bug discussion^(Forum) Feb 2022
• Button name's containing an underscore e.g "attack_roll" inside a repeating section, ARE NOT DETECTED by the on("clicked:- listener. Vince -details^(Forum)
• "Ghost Rows" in repeating sections when a dash '-' is used in the section name full description & reporduction steps^(Forum) - found by Peter B. Jan 2021
• any regular attributes with _repeating in the attribute-name do not trigger API events. i.e. delete_repeating_rows will fail. observation by Vince^(Forum) Aug 2021
• Using <table> inside Repeating Sections might interfere with sheetworkers. Details: Button/Sheetworker not working^(Forum) (Jan 2022)

Sheetworkers

Bugs in how sheetworkers function.

JavaScript Restrictions

• odd behavior with default values December 2021
• setAttrs only updating the last value in a list in routine called with setWithWorkers() - thread^(Forum) Reported Oct. 2021
• Sheet workers are now both case sensitive, and case-insensitive. (probably a bug)^(Forum) Andreas J. (talk) 15:34, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

CSE

Bugs related to Character Sheet Enhancement(CSE).

• Roll Template-styling sometimes completely disappears and doesn't work when trying to convert from LCS to CSE. Andreas J. (talk) 21 April 2021
  • thread discussing issues.^(Forum)
  • https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/10618214/roll-template-broken-in-production-but-works-as-custom-sheet-or-in-a-sandbox Jan 2022

• HTML replacement characters have been observed to sometimes be converted prematurely after the CSE update was made which can cause sheet roll macros to break.
  • Only appears to happen in CSE-mode. reported by Ayethin & Vince
  • Workaround: since nested quotes and/or queries that include special characters may break in CSE-mode, try substituting the ampersand character as well. ie " should be changed to ".
  • Roll20 have under testing^(Forum) improvements to make html characters redundant

• in some cases, .charsheet needs to be added to the CSS classes, which previously worked fine with Legacy Sheet
  • ex. .charsheet span{ width: 150px;}, instead of span{ width: 150px;}
• Asterisks disappearing from CSS comments. examples & discussion^(Forum)
  • Chris D. may have uncovered strange behavior with CSS comments using multiple asterisk characters. eg /******/
  • Scott C. notes that this may be an older bug
    [1]
    and suggests to use # instead. eg /*######*/
• details & summary-element styling is inconsistent between browsers/versions details^(Forum) April 2021

LCS

Bugs that only affect Legacy Character Sheets(LCS).

• In legacy mode, the number comparison functions stop working if the number you are comparing is below zero. mention June 2021^(Forum)

Github

Bug affecting how sheets uploaded to the sheet repo work or function.

• replacing sheet images on github doesn't always update on sheet to make sure images change on sheet when updating/replacing them, change their name/reference in the code, eg. logo.jpg to logo2.jpg.
  • discussion on the bug
  • This minor bug have been observed occasionally since 2019(?) (Andreas J. (talk) 15:39, 5 May 2021 (UTC))

See Also

• Building_Character_Sheets#Restrictions - Documented restrictions on how code is to be written.
• Common_Mistakes - related to sheet coding