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

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 Character Sheet Development/Bugs page for know bugs in the Roll20 sheet creation system.

Planned Updates

New Sheet Ecosystem

There are plans for major updates to the sheet system.

Details from Q&A with CTO Morgan Buck - Operation Fire Bolt + Product Updates June 22nd 2022

"For developers our existing character sheet system is pretty archaic and you have to know a lot about hacks and workarounds to make a really incredible sheet. Our goal is to create a system where developers can bring their existing experience with web app development to Roll20 character sheets and make some really incredible tools. We're going to start with experimenting with this internally, so the first thing you'll see is some significant level ups to the sheets we're outputting. Once we sort out security we hope to make these tools available to everyone."

[...] "The new character sheets will also expose a lot of functionality that was previously API only to sheets so that they can be more powerful out of the box. Some of the most common functionality of critical API scripts will end up being covered by that work." [...]

response to question about "multiple sheets per game"-suggestion:

[...] "The new sheet ecosystems we're developing allow for a much more maintainable and modern sheet, and doing those as a single sheet application would allow for code sharing and many other desirable things. In the new ecosystem each sheet is effectively a web application that can utilize all of the organizational tools a modern web developer would expect, which would allow for solid segmentation of the code for these sheets modes."

2022

August

• CSS & Styling of the site was updated, which caused styling issues for a small number of community sheets.
  Aug. 1st
  • PR #10902 was caused by this. Official Savage Worlds also had CSS issues but they where resolved on Roll20's side.

May

• Fixed a roll macros issue where computed rows displayed in allProps if a property wasn't named.
  May 9

March

• Dev Server testing: fix for the roll macros issue where computed rows displayed in allProps if a property wasn't named-bug - March 28th
  • Test feedback thread On Dev Server: Roll Macros Bug Fix
• Character sheet attributes now load when needed in-game rather than all at once on game load, increasing initial load speed and reducing initial memory usage.
  March 24
  • conceptually some form of "lazy loading" implementation
• Dark Mode in roll templates fixed, easier for sheet devs to implement
  March 18
• Dark Mode fixes for the Default Roll Template
  March 4
• Translation for Finnish added
  March 3
• Dark Mode released, along with options to integrate to char sheets. See Character Sheet Development/Dark Mode
  March 2, 2022
  • D&D 5E by Roll20
    ^Character   _Sheet
    was released with Dark Mode.

February

• Character sheet jQuery events now support the ⌘(Command/Metakey)-key on MacOS devices.
  Feb 22nd
• Dark Mode for Character Sheets (on Dev Server)
  • Character Sheet Development/Dark Mode

2021

December

• Computed values are now working correctly for any argument of a roll template function.
  Dec. 15th
• External Tools:
  • Roll20 Macros (v.1.1.1) extension for VS Code released
  • Roll20 Sheet Dev (v.0.3.1) extension for VS Code released

November

• Finnish is now available on Crowdin for community translators. Not yet integrated to use with Roll20.
  Nov. 30th
• Computed roll functions(CRP ) can now handle more than 10 rolls.
  Nov 18th
• The RollTotal roll template function now works correctly with computed values.
  Nov 3th

October

• New feature: Display character avatars & tokens within character sheets now possible. - Oct. 20th
  • wiki page: Image_use_in_character_sheets#Avatar_.26_Token
  • 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
  rolled back
  • 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

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

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)

Bugs & Quirks

See Character Sheet Development/Bugs & Quirks. Any fixed bugs should be removed from the page and mentioned on this page's changelog.

See Also

• Roll20 Changelog
  • Changelog on the Help Center contains the current Changelog (Summer 2019 and later)
  • Changelog - Mobile App
  • Changelog (2013-2019) - the older Roll20 changelog
• Category:New features released by year - catching up on what features by year of release
• Category:Unreleased/Highly Requested features