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Has the format changed for nesting Roll Queries?

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Chris D.
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I had a query that I wanted to make into a nested query. (bad idea) I had this in my html in a button statement.                        value="!Earthdawn~ charID: @{character_id}~ ?{What Function|Attune,TuneMatrix: Spell: @{SP_RowID}|Create a pseudo matrix & Attune,TuneMatrix: Share: @{SP_RowID}}" Which asks a dropdown with two options, Attune and Create a pseudo matrix and Attune. It worked fine.  Now I thought that all I had to do (and all the documentation I can find still says to do this) was add a 2nd query and then replace all the } | and "," with the html replacements.                          value="!Earthdawn~ charID: @{character_id}~ ?{What Function|Attune,TuneMatrix: Spell|Create a pseudo matrix & Attune,TuneMatrix: Share: ?{whatever|Standard,Std|Enhanced,Enh}}: @{SP_RowID}" However it did not work and I kept getting all the 2nd queries options added to the first with other errors. Finally I found that what works is to also escape all the & so that it looks like as follows.                          value="!Earthdawn~ charID: @{character_id}~ ?{What Function|Attune,TuneMatrix: Spell|Create a pseudo matrix & Attune,TuneMatrix: Share: ?{whatever|Standard,Std|Enhanced,Enh}}: @{SP_RowID}" I guess this is not so much of a question as a WTF!  Did this change? When? Why is the documentation still saying the old way.  Or is it just me?
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Andreas J.
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It should still be on dev for testing. Have you tried your sheet on Dev server and seen if it behaves differently?
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Chris D.
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Sorry, I have no idea what you mean  by "it" should still be on dev for testing.  In any case, I did my original testing on the custom sheet sandbox of the production server. I just tried in on the dev server and it behaves the exact same. 
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GiGs
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I havent following how nested queries work in character sheets, but I remember there was an issue that roll20 was applying an extra level of parsing, so html entities needed to be nested twice.
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Andreas J.
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Chris D. said: Sorry, I have no idea what you mean&nbsp; by "it" should still be on dev for testing. You where talking about changes to nested queries, and I was, too, talking about nested queries: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/10260308/now-on-dev-server-roll-query-improvements" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/10260308/now-on-dev-server-roll-query-improvements</a>
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Chris D.
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Oh, yes! Thanks!&nbsp; &nbsp;I forgot that had whole episode happened! The test and the revert. Or rather I had some vague memory something happened but not what, and I only searched back the release notes 2 or 3 months, not 4.&nbsp; In any case, on both the production and dev sandboxes the line (as part of an html button statement) value="!Stuff ?{What Function|Attune,TuneMatrix: Spell|Create a pseudo matrix Attune,TuneMatrix: Share: ?{whatever|Standard,Std|Enhanced,Enh|Armored,Arm|Shared,Sha}}: @{SP_RowID}" produces a dropdown like&nbsp; Which is to say the queries do not nest, they are all part of one big query.&nbsp; The exact same thing happens if I only encode it to what used to be expected (change ","&nbsp; "}" and "|" to &amp;#44; etc.)&nbsp; It now seems to need an additional level of encryption to&nbsp; &amp;amp;#44; In order to get it to work (where the last 4 options are only a subquery to the Create option), on both the Production and Dev sandboxes I need to use the following. value="!Stuff ?{What Function|Attune,TuneMatrix: Spell|Create a pseudo matrix Attune,TuneMatrix: Share: ?{whatever&amp;amp;#124;Standard&amp;amp;#44;Std&amp;amp;#124;Enhanced&amp;amp;#44;Enh&amp;amp;#124;Armored&amp;amp;#44;Arm&amp;amp;#124;Shared&amp;amp;#44;Sha&amp;amp;rbrace;}: @{SP_RowID}" Which seems to be more / different encryption than before.&nbsp;
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vÍnce
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This was brought up previously... <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/10071671/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/10071671/</a> and the Devs were supposed to be working it out. (ie the macro release and rollback)&nbsp; I think we're still waiting on a solution.
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Andreas J.
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and I only searched back the release notes 2 or 3 months, not 4. Some time ago I started a changelog for sheet stuff, half of the time changes aren't mentioned in the changelog or release notes. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/BCS/Updates" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/BCS/Updates</a> Oh yeah and what Vince pointed out was something listed on <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/BCS/Bugs#CSE" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/BCS/Bugs#CSE</a>