Embedding abilities from a character sheet

Hi all, I have been having a look around the forums and googling to try and find a way to embed an ability macro that is on a character sheet (roll20 5E OGL) into a single macro that whispers a list of buttons to the player; I know you can embed a global macro using: [button-name](!
#macro-name ) but the ability I was hoping to embed looks like this when I run it from the sheet and call the code using the up key: %{character-name|ability-name} is there a way to do something like the first code with the global macro but with the ability? ***Figured it out, so if anybody is looking at this and is interested I needed to use the HTML code for the % sign.*** looks like this: [button name](!
&#37{character-name|ability-name} Thanks in advance, Aaron.

Sure... [button-name](!
%{character-name|ability-name})

I tried that, it just rolled the macro, I had to change the % to &#37 for it to work properly. it just didnt occur to me at first.

Ah, sorry. I see now you were trying to embed it.

timmaugh said: Ah, sorry. I see now you were trying to embed it. yup, and it has taken me hours of searching before I decided to ask on here and about 10 mins after I asked the question the "D'OH" moment came to me that I probably needed to substiute the % for HTML code for it to be picked up properly.

See here on the wiki: <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat#API_Command_Buttons" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat#API_Command_Buttons</a> : a screenshot - PS: I'm honestly not posting this as a gotcha - it's really hard to find. Even though I know it's there, whenever I go looking for the syntax, it still takes me a while to find it.

GiGs said: I'm not posting this as a gotcha - it's really hard to find. Even though I know it's there, whenever I go looking for the syntax, it still takes me a while to find it. Oh I never doubted it was there I just couldn't find it for love nor money.

I usually pop this reference open in a tab when I'm descending into the realm of multi-layered nesting. I find the &amp;lcub; &amp;rcub; notation significantly easier to read back &amp; troubleshoot than huge string of numbers - e.g. nesting a template inside a button inside a template inside a button inside a template.

That's a very handy page - I'm not sure why the wiki uses the number versions of the HTML entities, because as you point out, they are the hardest to read and remember.

I dunno, some people are very good at remembering number strings, but I find myself going cross-eyed once you've got the [[ {{ (&nbsp; all bumping into each other. I mean, no one ever wants to nest anything simple do they? :)

Oosh said: I dunno, some people are very good at remembering number strings, but I find myself going cross-eyed once you've got the [[ {{ (&nbsp; all bumping into each other. I mean, no one ever wants to nest anything simple do they? :) Of it was simple, what would be the point...the battles worth fighting are those least likely won...and all that