Page Updated:   2022-08-21

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 Restrictions for quirks that aren't explicit bugs.
• See BCS/Updates for previously fixed bugs, of bugs that may have a fix under public testing on the Dev Server

Note: The "Month Year" mention at end is a guaranteed last observation of the bug, or when it was documented.

Bugs

General

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

• GIFs doesn't load correctly on Roll Templates See issue #6166 April 2020
• 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. CouldHTML Entities be used instead?
• language-dependent sheet changes doesn't seem to work. See #9053 for details. Summer 2021
• Sheet Sandbox & Translation key refresh issue -- May 2022
  • you need to manually reload page if you use getTranslationByKey() and have uploaded new translation.json in the sandbox
  • getTranslationByKey() throws a the key is not in the translation object error when the key is in the translation file, in the sandbox if you don't make the page reload.
  • seems the translation object as far as getTranslationByKey() is concerned is not updated when you use the sandbox widget to upload a fresh translation.json

Repeating Sections

• Action button (sheetworker) does not work when placed in a repeating section table March 2022 - found by Peter B.
• 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)
  • Work around: If you set the action button to have position: relative; then action buttons work! These positions also work: absolute and sticky. All other positions seems to render the button inoperable

div.repcontainer div.repitem td button[type="action"],
div.repcontainer div.repitem th button[type="action"] {
    position: relative;
}

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
  • problem with rolltemplate css June 2022
  • https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/10618214/roll-template-broken-in-production-but-works-as-custom-sheet-or-in-a-sandbox Jan 2022
  • thread discussing issues.^(Forum) April 2021

• 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) April 2021
  • 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 /*######*/
  • probably same cause Rolltemplate styling not registering? March 2022
• details & summary-element styling is inconsistent between browsers/versions details^(Forum) April 2021
• Inconsistent handling of image URLs resulting in missing images on Rolltemplates
  • To avoid having images behave differently on Rolltemplates, either manually encode your whitespaces to %20
  • Change your sheet folder to not have whitespaces at all to avoid this problem all together

Legacy Sheet

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)

API

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) May 2021 )
• Sometimes merged updates don't go live on Roll20 - have happened both to updates of existing sheets, as well as new sheets not appearing in the sheet menu even if merged & .yaml was updated. (First case Q4 2021 or earlier)
  • past instances: Github Issues: #10367 The Between, #10188 Mutant Year Zero, #9948 Vast Grimm, PR #10419 - ADnD 2E Revised]
  • renaming files & folders on github might have higher risk of causing this
  • Suspicion: it's a bug in roll20's sheet update services that was introduced in March 2021 Andreas J. (talk) 10:06, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

See Also

• Building_Character_Sheets#Restrictions - Documented restrictions on how code is to be written.
• Common Mistakes - Character Sheet Development
• Character Sheet Development/Updates - Changelog of recent bugfixes
• Bugs/Missing Feature Parity/Desired Features for Mods Aug 2022 thread by Aaron