Page Updated:   2021-10-20

Main Page: Building Character Sheets

Changelog on updates to the system for creating & editing Roll20 Character Sheets. This page also list any updates that are available for testing on the Dev Server.

Only some of these updates get mentioned on the Changelog or the official forums, so this consolidated page is needed to keep track, as Roll20 have ~in 2021 changed to rapidly make updates & changes to the sheet system after years of barely any changes -Andreas J., 20 September 2021.

See also the BCS/Bugs page for know bugs with the Roll20 sheet creation system.

• Character Sheet Enhancements!^(Forum) latest discussions

2021

October

• New feature: Pisplay character avatars & tokens within character sheets now possible. - Oct. 20th
  • old thread: Dev Server: Image Attributes^(Forum)
• New feature: Added limited DOM interactions for character sheet authors via jQuery - 20th
  • old thread: Dev Server testing: jQuery^(Forum)
• Bugfix: Resolved a bug that required the use of special characters in nested roll queries. - 20th
  • old thread: Dev Server testing: Roll Query Improvements - nesting^(Forum)

September

• Mobile App update
  • Added support for jQuery functions in character sheets
    [1]
    - Sept. 7th

August

• Release Note for August 17, 2021^(Forum)
  • Character Sheets - Add pseudo-variable to allow Sheet Authors to scope roll templates.
  • Character Sheets - Added Environment Variables for Sheet Authors to scope sheetworkers.

July

• Dev Server testing: jQuery for character sheets^(Forum) - July 21
• Dev Server testing: Roll Query Improvements - nesting^(Forum) - July 21
  • will remove the need of using HTML replacement characters in macros to make nesting and complex rolls to work.
• Custom Roll Parsing: Character sheets can now combine the functionality of roll buttons and action buttons to allow for roll parsing. - july 13th
  • Official Documentation: Custom Roll Parsing for Character Sheets.
  • first sheetworker that uses Promise MDN Docs
• bugfix for a sheetworker/ API interaction. A fix had been on the dev server since Feb but was only much later rolled out live.
  • mention^(Forum)

June

• Now on Dev Server: Image Attributes^(Forum) - 26th
  • making it possible to dynamically change images shown on the sheet from custom urls, changing background-images, and ability to show character avatar & tokens directly on the sheet.

April

• fixed issues with @import Release Note for April 27, 2021^(Forum)
  • if a @import exists, it seems it might result in roll20 ignoring the first instance of the next css class in the file, workaround is to add an empty, "sacrificial" version of the class first that will be eaten up, and the one after will work normally
• Most initial bugs with Character Sheet Enhancement have be fixed and the framework is now stable, and better than LCS.

March

Character Sheet Enhancement sheet update was fully released, expanding the html & css things that can be done with character sheets. This includes more options to make char sheets look good on the Roll20 Mobile app.

• iFrame and Sanitization Changes

2020

Feb

• Google fonts can now be used with char sheets: CSS_Wizardry#Google_Fonts - 21st
• Custom Sheet Sandbox was released, an improved tool for developing & editing char sheets. 18th
  • New Pro Feature: Custom Sheet Sandbox^(Blog)