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Sheet Worker Scripts(AKA simply as "sheetworkers"), are an advanced feature of the Character Sheets system, which are written in JavaScript(they are a type of Web Workers, hence the name). They will allow making automatic & complex changes to the character sheet stats, based on certain events, such as whenever a certain attribute's value on a character sheet is modified, or when an action button is pressed.
Sheetworker examples for Non-programmers, Sheet Worker Snippets and Universal Sheetworkers are the best starting points for practical and working examples on how to use sheetworkers.
This page gives a general overview of the available Roll20-specific features that can be used in sheetworkers, but is not a great guide for practical implementations. The pages/links found under the Related Pages and See Also-sections have links to more examples of how to use sheetworkers.
General
As sheetworkers are written in JavaScript, its a good idea to take some general guides and learn the basics of it to be able to understand & create sheetworkers.
Introduction to JavaScript - Mozilla Developer Network(MDN) web docs
- Few things that often come up in existing sheetworkers code, which isn't always covered that early in general JS tutorials & guides.
- Arrow functions - An alternative way to write functions in JavaScript. Used in many sheets.
- Template literals - string literals allowing embedded expressions:
`This is a ${word} example`
- Javascript:Best Practices - tips for both API & sheetworkers
JavaScript Restrictions
Many JavaScript functions or functionalities can't be used in Roll20 character sheets due to the security filter. One should check existing sheets for examples of what can be used, if you're attempting to do any slightly more advanced data-handling. Sheetworkers have access to the Underscore library.
- DOM can't be used directly in basically any way, so event listeners like
onclick
won't work. (Partial exception: CSS classes manipulated via jQuery) - All JavaScript must be inside a single
<script type="text/worker">
element in the HTML file. Otherwise some may fail to trigger or lead to uncertain behaviour - Only the Roll20-designed event listeners can trigger JS on the character sheet:
- stat change on a sheet, done either by the user, or another sheetworker
- stat change done by an API
- triggered by an Action Sheet Button
See Also BCS/Bugs#Sheetworkers.
Structure of a Sheetworker
Sheetworkers in Roll20 character sheets are pieces of JavaScript, intertwined with a few custom features made specifically for handling Roll20 character sheet information. All the sheetworkers in a character sheet are places inside a single <script type="text/worker">
-element.
Usually a sheetworker works as follows.
1. Listens for changes to the sheet with an Event Listener ("change:attributename
sheet:opened
) (explained in next section)
2. Retrieves values of a number of attributes from the sheet with the getAttrs
function, usually including the attributes that were monitored.
3. Create some temporary variables and uses the values received from getAttrs
and does something based on the info using normal JavaScript.
4. Save to the character sheet some of the new values made in Step 3 to some number of attributes with the setAttrs
function.
The following is an example of a single sheetworker placed in a <script type="text/worker">
-element, taken from the Sheetworker examples for Non-programmers-page.
<script type="text/worker"> on("change:siz change:con sheet:opened", function() { getAttrs(["siz","con"], function(values) { let siz = parseInt(values.siz)||0; let con = parseInt(values.con)||0; let hp = siz + con; setAttrs({ "hitpoints": hp }); }); }); </script>
<script type="text/worker">
In a character sheet, all sheetworkers are saved on the .html
-file for the sheet, inside a single HTML element named <script type="text/worker">
. This is critical for the sheetworkers to function in Roll20. If sheetworkers are split into more than one <script type="text/worker">
-element, it's almost guaranteed all of them will fail to function. Most Sheet Creator place the sheetworker-block at the bottom of the HTML-file.
Event listener
on("change:siz change:con sheet:opened", function()
is the Event listener, which checks the character sheet for changes to specific attributes, if the sheet have been opened, or if a button have been pressed. In the example, the sheetworker is checking if the siz
or con
-attribute have been changed, or if the sheet have been opened. These two represents the size and constitution of the character.
Value retrieval
getAttrs(["siz","con"], function(values)
looks up the values of the siz
or con
-attributes on the character sheet, so they can be used in the sheetworker.
Making changes
let siz = parseInt(values.siz)||0; let con = parseInt(values.con)||0; let hp = siz + con;
This is the main part of the sheetworker. It first defines two temporary varible, siz
and con
, that saves the values of their attributes in a way that JavaScript knows it's a number.
On the third row, it defines the hp
-varaible to be siz + con
, which means that the characters Hit Points are equal to the sum of their Size and Constitution.
Saving the changes
setAttrs({ "hitpoints": hp });
Finally, the sheetworker decides to define the character sheet's hitpoints
-attribute to be equal to the newly calculated hp
-variable, which is the last action of the sheetworker. Note that it does not make changes to the attributes it was listening to.
Other things
It's good practice to always use lower case when referencing attribute names in your sheet workers, regardless of how the attributes are defined in the HTML. This helps to avoid a number of issues.
Outside of this, there may exist some other things saved in the <script type="text/worker">
, such as:
- Saved list of information, used by the sheetworkers.
- Example:
const stats = ["strength", "intelligence", "charm", "arcana", "grace"];
- Example:
- the Event Listener might loop through some JavaScript, that decides what attributes to listen/change/save
- Example:
stats.forEach(stat => { some code });
- Example:
- Define JavaScript functions to be used in the sheetworkers, instead of repeating the same code snippets in several places.
Adding a Sheetworker
To add a sheetworker to a Character Sheet, simply add the script to the bottom of your HTML
-section of the sheet using the following format:
<script type="text/worker"> on("change:strength", function() { }); // ... etc </script>
The <script>
-element must have a type of "text/worker"
to be properly handled by the system. When the game loads, all script tags are removed from the sheet's template for security purposes. However, <script>
-elements with a type of "text/worker"
will be used to spin up a background worker on each player's computer, that can respond to changing values in their sheets and take action as needed.
All sheetworker should be contained within a single <script type="text/worker">
element, and preferably be placed at the bottom of the html
-file.
Sheetworker examples for Non-programmers
Warning about "global" variable scope: the scope of a variable declared inside the <script type="text/worker">
but outside a function are currently per player, not per character. Changing its value will change it for all the characters of your player's session.
As a best practice Asynchronous cascades should be avoided whenever possible. It is generally a better practice to get all attributes needed for calculations in one getAttrs
rather than doing getAttrs
-> calculations -> setAttrs
-> getAttrs
-> calculations -> setAttrs
…
Understanding sheetworkers
(credit: Jakob)
Usually, the best way to learn something is to do it! Start solving the problems you want to solve using sheet workers, and learn along the way :).
Now, that probably wasn't very helpful. I could also encourage you to look at code others have written, which you should do; just realize that many sheet authors are also amateurs (such as me), hence the code may not be the most elegantly-written example.
That probably also wasn't helpful. Let me try something else: depending on what your course taught you, much of it (everything dealing with manipulation of the DOM) is not going to be very helpful. Here's some important things you need to keep in mind that might make sheet workers different from what you've learned:
- 1. Sheet workers are event-driven. Everything interesting your workers do will happen in response to a certain event on the sheet; most of the time, the triggering event will be changing an attribute on the sheet (i.e., the value of some input, be it a checkbox, radio, text, number input, or textarea). This is what the
on("change:attr", function () { ...})
is there for: it's about registering a function that's supposed to be executed every time attr changes.
- 2. Sheet workers can only really do one thing. Sheet workers can change the value of attributes, and that's pretty much it (they can also remove repeating rows, but that's not their main use). If you want your sheet workers to do a thing, ask yourself if it can be accomplished by changing the value of an attribute (this includes being able to (un)check checkboxes), +perhaps some CSS. If yes, you can do it with sheet workers. If not, you cannot.
- 3. Sheet workers are asynchronous. The main interesting functions you have access to in sheet workers, namely getAttrs, setAttrs, and getSectionIDs, take as their second argument functions that do other stuff. This means that you cannot trust that your code will simply be executed from top to bottom, and have to write in such a way that it makes sense no matter when asynchronous functions are executed. This is often a source of confusion for people.
Good Practices
(credit: GiGs)
- I think it's a good idea (especially when still learning) to get into the habit of putting all the values you are using in variables at the top of the code. It makes writing the code a bit more laborious, but if you reuse values, or have long macros, it can make things clearer, and most importantly, you can then use console.log statements to check what their values are. (they will appear in the browser's dev console, which you can usually find by pressing F12).
- Another tip is its a good idea to just use a single setAttrs statement, at the end of the sheet worker. For this one which is just modifying a single attribute, it doesn't matter, but you'll eventually get into making workers that set multiple attributes. when that happens, you definitely want to group them into a single statement, to avoid unpredictable errors.
- Also its a good idea to use variable names that match the value they are calling. In the code below, for example,
i
renamed index tocurrenthp
, which I think is more descriptive.
- It's also a good idea to use lower case only for attribute names, and use underscores instead of dashes or other symbols in the name. For example, use
strengthmod
orstrength_mod
, and avoidstrength
-mod.
- One final tip: if you are using
parseInt
on cells that users can enter values into, it's a good idea to add a default value. For instanceparseInt('something')||0
means that if the cell contains text, or not a number, you'll get a number in the code. Your if statements will fail without this, if the cells being called don't actually have numbers in them.
Sheet Workers vs. Auto-Calculating Fields: Which should I use?
There's no hard-and-fast rule about this. Both of these tools are capable of achieving the same thing. Let's take a hypothetical use-case of a "Strength" attribute, which we want to use to keep a "Strength Mod" attribute updated. Here would be the differences between the two tools for this use case:
- The auto-calculating fields are all re-calculated every time a sheet is opened for the first time. The Sheet Worker fields, on the other hand, only recalculate when their dependent values change. This means that sheets utilizing the Sheet Worker option will be much, much faster for players to open and interact with.
- In addition, the Sheet Worker calculations run on a background process, meaning that there is no user interface lag created while the calculations are run. Disabled fields, on the other hand, run on the main process and as such can cause "lockups" or "stuttering" if there are large numbers of them being calculated at once (for example, if you have a very complicated sheet using thousands of disabled fields).
- The auto-calculating Strength Mod field would appear disabled to the player. A Strength Mod field that is updated by a Sheet Worker, on the other hand, would be modifiable after the calculation has run (although any value entered would be overwritten when the Strength value changes). So a Sheet Worker would better support homebrew rules since the player could simply modify the Mod value after Strength changes. On the other hand, the auto-calculating field would not allow such a change, so rules would be "enforced" more rigidly.
In general, our recommendation is that you use auto-calculating fields sparingly. Give yourself a budget of 500 to 1,000 auto-calculating fields at most. We recommend using the new Sheet Worker functionality for most calculations, especially calculations which only need to be performed rarely (for example, your Strength value (and therefore your Strength Mod) probably only changes at most once per session when the character levels up. There's no need to re-run the same calculation over and over again every time the sheet is opened.
Sheet Worker API
A list of sheetworker features accessible in Roll20. Not to be confused with the Roll20 API.
Events
Note: All attribute names are lowercased in events. So even if you normally refer to an attribute as Strength , use change:strength in the event listener. |
eventInfo Object
Many of the events are passed an eventInfo
object that gives you additional detail about the circumstances of the event.
Property | Description |
---|---|
sourceAttribute
|
The original attribute that triggered the event. It is the full name (including RowID if in a repeating section) of the attribute that originally triggered this event.
Note: The entire string will have been translated into lowercase and thus might not be suitable for being fed directly into |
sourceType
|
The agent that triggered the event, either player or sheetworker
|
previousValue
|
The original value of the attribute in an on:change event, before the attribute was changed.
|
newValue
|
The value to which the attribute in an on:change event has changed.
|
removedInfo
|
An object containing the values of all the attributes removed in a remove:repeating_groupname event.
|
triggerName
|
When changing a value it is equal to the sourceAttribute , being the full name (including RowID if in a repeating section)
When removing a repeating row it contains the bound trigger name for the repeating section, including the |
change:<attribute_name>
Allows you to listen to the changes of specific attributes, or in the case of a repeating section any changes in the entire section. It's very straightforward:
on("change:strength change:strengthmod change:strengthotherthing", function(eventInfo) { //Do something here // eventInfo.previousValue is the original value of the attribute that triggered this event, before being changed. // eventInfo.newValue is the current value of the attribute that triggered this event, having been changed. }); on("change:repeating_spells:spellname", function(eventInfo) { //Do something here // eventInfo.sourceAttribute is the full name (including repeating ID) of the attribute // that originally triggered this event, // however the entire string will have been translated into lowercase and thus might not be // suitable for being fed directly // into getAttrs() or other uses without being devandalized first. }); on("change:repeating_spells", function(eventInfo) { //Would be triggered when any attribute in the repeating_spells section is changed // eventInfo.sourceAttribute is the full name (lowercased)(including repeating ID) // of the attribute that originally triggered this event. });
For attributes in repeating fields, all of the following would be triggered when the repeating_spells_SpellName
attribute is updated:
change:repeating_spells:spellname
,
change:repeating_spells
,
change:spellname
,
change:spellname_max
.
This gives you maximum flexibility in choosing what "level" of change event you want to bind your function to.
Note: This supports the _max suffix in that ether change:strength or change:strength_max will fire an event, however these two variations seem to be interchangeable, in that ether or both will fire when ether strength or strength_max changes. |
change:_reporder:<sectionname>
Sheetworkers can also listen for a change event of a special attribute that is modified whenever a repeating section is re-ordered.
on("change:_reporder:<sectionname>", function(eventInfo) { // Where <sectionname> above should be a repeating section name, such as skills or spells });
remove:repeating_<groupname>
This is an event which will fire whenever a row is deleted from a repeating field section. You can also listen for a specific row to be deleted if you know its ID, such as on(remove:repeating_inventory:-ABC123
)
on("remove:repeating_inventory", function(eventInfo) { //Fired whenever a row is removed from repeating_inventory // eventInfo.sourceAttribute is the full name (including ID) of the first attribute that triggered the event (you can use this to determined the ID of the row that was deleted) });
The removed:repeating_<groupname>
function's eventinfo
includes a special property removedInfo
, that displays all of the attributes of the now removed repeating section.
on("remove:repeating_inventory", function(eventinfo) { console.log(eventinfo.removedInfo); });
sheet:opened
This event will fire every time a sheet is opened by a player in a game session. It should be useful for doing things like checking for needed sheet upgrades.
on('sheet:opened',function(){ // Do something the first time the sheet is opened by a player in a session });
clicked:<button_name>
This event will trigger when an action button is clicked. The button's name will need to start with act_
. Example:
<button type="action" name="act_activate">Activate!</button> <script type="text/worker"> on("clicked:activate", function() { console.log("Activate button clicked"); }); </script>
sheet:compendium-drop
Only relevant if you're working on Compendium Integration.
Can be used to set Default Token info for characters drag&dropped from the compendium to your game.
Functions
getAttrs(attributeNameArray, callback)
Asynchronous
The getAttrs
function allows you to get the values of a set of attributes from the sheet. The _max
suffix is supported, so getAttrs( ["Strength", "Strength_max"], func)
will get both the current and max values of Strength
. Note that the function is asynchronous, which means that there is no guarantee that the order in which multiple getAttrs
calls are made is the order in which the results will be returned. Rather, you pass a callback function which will be executed when the values have been calculated. The callback function receives a simple JavaScript object with a list of key-value pairs, one for each attribute that you requested.
Example:
on("change:strength", function() { getAttrs(["Strength", "Level"], function(values) { //Do something with values.Strength and/or values[ "Level" ] }); });
Values in Repeating Sections require a little special handling. If the event that you are inside of is already inside of a repeating section, you can simply request the variable using its name prefaced by the repeating group name and you will receive the value in the same repeating section the event was triggered in. For example, if we have a repeating_spells
section that has both SpellName
, SpellLevel
, and SpellDamage
, then:
on("change:repeating_spells:spelllevel", function() { getAttrs([ "repeating_spells_SpellDamage", "repeating_spells_SpellName" ], function(values) { //values.repeating_spells_SpellDamage and values.repeating_spells_SpellName //will both be from the same repeating section row that the SpellLevel that changed is in. }); });
On the other hand, if you aren't currently in a repeating section, you can specifically request that value of a field in a repeating section row by specifying its ID manually:
getAttrs(["repeating_spells_-ABC123_SpellDamage"]...
You can also request the _reporder_repeating_<sectionname>
attribute with getAttrs()
to get a list of all the IDs in the section that have been ordered. However note that this may not include the full listing of all IDs in a section. Any IDs not in the list that are in the section are assumed to come after the ordered IDs in lexographic order.
setAttrs(values,options,callback)
Asynchronous
values -- This is an object whose properties are the names of attributes (without the attr_ prefix) and whose values are what you want to set that attribute to.
options -- (Optional) This is an object that specifies optional behavior for the function. Currently the only option is "silent", which prevents propagation of change events from setting the supplied attributes.
callback -- (Optional) This is a callback function which will be executed when the set attributes have been updated.
The setAttrs function allows you to set the attributes of the character sheet. Use the _max
-suffix to set the max value of an attribute. For example Strength_max
.
on("change:strength", function() { getAttrs(["Strength", "Level"], function(values) { setAttrs({ StrengthMod: Math.floor(values.Strength / 2) }); }); });
Note: If you are trying to update a disabled input field with this method you may run into trouble. One option is to use this setAttrs
method to set a hidden input, then set the disabled input to the hidden element. In this example we have an attribute named will
, and we want to calculate judgement
based off 1/2 of the will
stat, but not to allow it to exceed 90. See below.
<label>Judgment</label> <input type="hidden" name="attr_foo_judgment" value="0" /> <input type="number" name="attr_judgment" value="@{foo_judgment}" disabled="true" title="1/2 of will rounded down, 90 max" />
on("change:will", function() { getAttrs(["will"], function(values) { setAttrs({ foo_judgment: Math.min(90, (values.will/2)) }); }); });
Although setAttrs
is an asynchronous function and there is no guarantee to which order the actual attributes will be set for multiple setAttrs()
calls.
For repeating sections, you have the option of using the simple variable name if the original event is in a repeating section, or you can specify the full repeating section variable name including ID in any event.
on("change:repeating_spells:spelllevel", function() { getAttrs(["repeating_spells_SpellLevel", "repeating_spells_SpellName"], function(values) { setAttrs({ repeating_spells_SpellDamage: Math.floor(values.repeating_spells_SpellLevel / 2) + 10 }); }); });
getSectionIDs(section_name,callback)
Asynchronous
This function allows you to get a list of the IDs which currently exist for a given repeating section. This is useful for calculating things such as inventory where there may be a variable number of rows.
on("change:repeating_inventory", function() { getSectionIDs("inventory", function(idarray) { for(var i=0; i < idarray.length; i++) { //Do something with the IDs } }); });
Note that you may use GetAttrs()
(described above) to request the _reporder_repeating_<sectionname>
attribute to get a list of all the IDs in the section that have been ordered. However note that this may not include the full listing of all IDs in a section. Any IDs not in the list that are in the section are assumed to come after the ordered IDs in lexographic order.
Which is to say that getSectionIDs()
will get all IDs - but not in the order that they are displayed to the user. getAttrs( _reporder_repeating_<sectionname>
, ... ) will return a list of all IDs that have been moved out of their normal lexographic order. You can use the following function as a replacement for getSectionIDs
to get the IDs in the order that they are displayed in instead.
var getSectionIDsOrdered = function (sectionName, callback) { 'use strict'; getAttrs([`_reporder_${sectionName}`], function (v) { getSectionIDs(sectionName, function (idArray) { let reporderArray = v[`_reporder_${sectionName}`] ? v[`_reporder_${sectionName}`].toLowerCase().split(',') : [], ids = [...new Set(reporderArray.filter(x => idArray.includes(x)).concat(idArray))]; callback(ids); }); }); };
generateRowID()
A synchronous function which immediately returns a new random ID which you can use to create a new repeating section row. If you use setAttrs()
and pass in the ID of a repeating section row that doesn't exist, one will be created with that ID.
Here's an example you can use to create a new row in a repeating section:
var newrowid = generateRowID(); var newrowattrs = {}; newrowattrs["repeating_inventory_" + newrowid + "_weight"] = "testnewrow"; setAttrs(newrowattrs);
WARNING
This function does not generate reliably unique row IDs, which may lead to unexpected behavior. For example, if you use generated IDs as keys in value
for use in setAttrs(value)
as intended, you may end up overwriting one or more existing entries and thus expected repeating section items will never be rendered. Here's an example you can use to work around this issue:
var newweightid = "repeating_inventory_" + generateRowID() + "_weight"; while (newweightid in newrowattrs) { newweightid = "repeating_inventory_" + generateRowID() + "_weight"; } newrowattrs[newweightid] = "testnewrow";
removeRepeatingRow( RowID )
A synchronous function which will immediately remove all the attributes associated with a given RowID and then remove the row from the character sheet. The RowID should be of the format repeating_<sectionname>_<rowid>
. For example, repeating_skills_-KbjuRmBRiJNeAJBJeh2
.
Here is an example of clearing out a summary list when the original list changes:
on("change:repeating_inventory", function() { getSectionIDs("repeating_inventorysummary", function(idarray) { for(var i=0; i < idarray.length; i++) { removeRepeatingRow("repeating_inventorysummary_" + idarray[i]); } }); });
setSectionOrder(<Repeating Section Name>, <Section Array>, <Callback>)
setSectionOrder("proficiencies", final-array, callbackFunction);
The setSectionOrder function allow the ordering of repeating sections according to your preference. The function accepts the name of a repeating section **without** `repeating_` (e.g. `repeating_proficiencies` would be passed simply as `proficiencies`) and an array of row IDs in the order that you want them.
WARNING
This function's behavior does not match its documentation. The function does not appear to have any callback functionality. Additionally, reordering sections via this function can cause significant graphical glitches and even some data corruption depending on what a user does in reaction to the graphic glitches.
getTranslationByKey([key])
A synchronous function which immediately returns the translation string related to the given key. If no key exists, false will be returned and a message in the console will be thrown which list the specific key that was not found in the translation JSON.
Here's an example you can use to fetch a translation string from the translation JSON: With the following translation JSON
{ "str": "Strength", "dex": "Dexterity" }
var strTranslation = getTranslationByKey('str'); // "Strength" var dexTranslation = getTranslationByKey('dex'); // "Dexterity" var intTranslation = getTranslationByKey('int'); // false
getTranslationLanguage()
A synchronous function which immediately returns the 2-character language code for the user's selected language.
Here's an example you can use to fetch the translation language:
var translationLang = getTranslationLanguage(); // "en" , for an account using English
setDefaultToken(values)
A function that allows the sheet author to determine what attributes are set on character dropped from the compendium. When setting the default token after a compendium drop, this function can set any attributes on the default token to tie in important attributes specific to that character sheet, such as attr_hit_points
.
The list of token attributes that can be set by setDefaultToken
are:
["bar1_value","bar1_max","bar2_value","bar2_max","bar3_value","bar3_max","aura1_square","aura1_radius","aura1_color","aura2_square","aura2_radius","aura2_color", "tint_color","showname","showplayers_name","playersedit_name","showplayers_bar1","playersedit_bar1","showplayers_bar2","playersedit_bar2","showplayers_bar3", "playersedit_bar3","showplayers_aura1","playersedit_aura1","showplayers_aura2","playersedit_aura2","light_radius","light_dimradius","light_angle","light_otherplayers", "light_hassight","light_losangle","light_multiplier"]
For more information about this attributes and what they do, please see the the API Objects-page.
Example:
on("sheet:compendium-drop", function() { var default_attr = {}; default_attr["width"] = 70; default_attr["height"] = 70; default_attr["bar1_value"] = 10; default_attr["bar1_max"] = 15; setDefaultToken(default_attr); });
Custom Roll Parsing
Main Page: Custom Roll Parsing
As of July 13th, 2021, character sheets can now combine the functionality of roll buttons and action buttons to allow for roll parsing.
You essentially now have an action button that will perform dice rolls, with input from sheetworkers. CRP also requires changes to the Roll Template.
Currently there's you can only display computed values in the first 10 fields that are sent in the macro.
Example:
<button type="action" name="act_test">Click me</button> <rolltemplate class="sheet-rolltemplate-test"> <div class="sheet-template-container"> <h1>{{name}}</h1> <div class="sheet-results"> <h4>Result = {{roll1}}</h4> <h4>Custom Result = {{computed::roll1}}</h4> </div> </div> </rolltemplate> <script type="text/worker"> on('clicked:test', (info) => { startRoll("&{template:test} {{name=Test}} {{roll1=[[1d20]]}}", (results) => { const total = results.results.roll1.result const computed = total % 4; finishRoll( results.rollId, { roll1: computed } ); }); }); </script>
jQuery(NEW)
Main Page: jQuery
Troubleshooting
If your sheetworkers don't work, it's worthwhile to use console.log() and check the console returns with Web Developer Tools, to get better idea of what went wrong.
Also doing code validation
Related Pages
- Sheetworker
- List of All Sheetworker pages
- Sheetworker examples for Non-programmers
- Sheet Worker Snippets - short and practical examples of sheetworkers
- Universal Sheet Workers - How to create one function that can handle a bunch of similar sheet workers
- Javascript:Best Practices
- Building Character Sheets
- Auto-Calc
- CSS Wizardry - Contains multiple examples that makes use of sheetworkers.
- Action Button - how to use sheetworkers in combination with action buttons
- Andreas Guide to Sheet Development - general stuff on design & code best practice regarding sheets
- Sheet Author Tips
- Complete Guide to Macros & Rolls - guide to how the dice rolling & macro syntax works. Useful for creating more complicated rolls through sheetworkers
See Also
Various Roll20 Forum threads , github repositories, or other great external resources helping sheetworker creation.
- A Sheet Author's Journey(Part 3) - Repeating sections and writing sheetworkers!(Forum) Feb 2022
- Sheet Worker Optimization(Forum) by Scott C.
- Multiversal Sheetworker Generator(Forum) by GiGs
- How to integrate table of stats into a sheet(Forum) by GiGs
- getSetAttrs: an alternative API for getAttrs/SetAttrs(Forum) by Jakob
- TheAaronSheet - A facade for Sheet Worker Tasks and Utility Functions. Contains a great function for sheet troubleshooting/debugging
- Roll20Async - A number of sheetworker that enables using Async/Await syntax in sheetworkers. WARNING: Incompatible with Mod Scripts
- sheet workers - Almost always outdated/lacking compared to any pages on sheet development on the wiki
General stuff about JavaScript:
- Introduction to JavaScript - Mozilla Developer Network(MDN) web docs
- JavaScript Best Practices
- Arrow functions - An alternative way to write functions in JavaScript. Used in many sheets.
- Template literals - string literals allowing embedded expressions:
`This is a ${word} example`
- console.log() - good for troubleshooting
- Conditional (ternary) operator
- Working with JSON - useful if you want to create an import function for your sheet.
- Object Oriented JS
- JavaScript Foreach: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners - help with understanding
.foreach()
- Closure JavaScript Compiler Good for checking your sheetworkers for errors
- Firefox JavaScript Debugger