Characters don't transfer to other Chapters

Playing last night on Google + Hangouts, we started on one map the GM prepared, he then clicked the red banner to transfer our characters to the new map, and nothing happened. He had to manually enter ALL the characters again to the new map, enable permissions to allow us control, but where as on the old map we had control, on the new map we did not... Am I doing something wrong?

That's pretty much how you have to do it, although you should be able to group the party tokens and copy them and then paste them into the New Page. If you use Dungeon tiles or flipmats in a Real Life Game you'd still have to move your minis one at a time. Roll20 isn't a video game, it's just a Virtual Table Top, after a while you get used to it and it will be fine. The Red Banner doesn't move anything it just changes the players view of what they see on their monitors. If the players weren't seeing the New Page, well then that is a different problem.

As far I know, the red banner doesn't transfer the characters. It only shifts what players see; the red banner changes the page you -as player- can view. Actually, I'm not sure of understanding what you mean here by saying "transfering characters to a new map". You mean your tokens on the map? In such case, then the GM can simply select your character tokens and do just "copy" from the current map and then "paste" to the new map. EDIT: I was ninja'd by Ajax!

AH! Well that clears up a lot on how to move them, still not sure why we didn't have permission to move them when he made duplicates on the new map? Thank you Ajax and Axel.

Okay I just tried this in my own campaign, I have 3 chapters, I can move all the player tokens in the first chapter I made. I gave myself and each player character permission to control all the PCs, but on the 2nd and 3rd chapters I cannot move their tokens.

(. . .) still not sure why we didn't have permission to move them when he made duplicates on the new map? That is odd. At risk of saying what you already know, the duplicated tokens transferred to a new map keep the player permissions set by the GM, regardless the map. Just in case, let me say that these permissions are to be found in a menu field -in the token edit window- called "Controlled By". The GM puts there the names of the players allowed to control the token, an such permissions are indeed transferred over maps. I don't know; likely the GM forgot to put the permissions right (your player names), but I don't try to blame him; then, if that wasn't the case, it could be an odd glitch. For reporting it as a true problem or bug, you'll need to be able to duplicate it. So I'd test it again, being sure of setting the permissions correctly. If after setting the "Controlled By" fields (permissions) the problem appears again, please post about it again with your computer, OS and web browser specs. For what is worth I just tested once again the "Controlled By" field and then entered to the game as a player with permission, and it's working OK with tokens copied and pasted from another map, without any need of putting the permissions again. Regards

He had to manually enter ALL the characters again to the new map, enable permissions to allow us control, but where as on the old map we had control, on the new map we did not... Perhaps the answer to this is that if the GM didn't copy/pasted the tokens with the already assigned permissions, after placing the equivalent tokens again into the new map, they had no permissions set in them, since they were different instances of these images (tokens); that is why their permissions field ("Controlled By") were completely clear and needed to be set again. This is solved just by copying the tokens with the assigned permissions from the other map and pasting them into the new map. In other words, I believe there is no problem here. But correct me if I'm wrong!

Will do, thanks again Axel... ah k, will send him that info, but yes he did go through all the reposting control on the new tokens, and we could not move them.

Excuse me Booby A., I didn't see your earlier post before submitting mine. Um. If you are doing this right, it's odd that you are having this problem. Similarly, if the GM re-set the "Controlled By" field with your names after placing the tokens in the new map, it should have worked. As I have no idea of what can be happening, and I'm unable to duplicate the issue that you're reporting, maybe others can help here. Playing last night on Google + Hangouts FWIW, all my tests about this have been outside Google+ Hangouts. Maybe that is the difference?

I figured it out... We were only changing the permissions in the Journal tab, NOT on the actual tokens themselves in the new chapter/map. I just tried it on 2 additional maps I made in my campaign, and it works fine... whew... glad that's figured out! Oh and don't call me Booby, yer not my mother, shouting that in a crowded super market... ;) :p

I figured it out... We were only changing the permissions in the Journal tab, NOT on the actual tokens themselves in the new chapter/map. I just tried it on 2 additional maps I made in my campaign, and it works fine... whew... glad that's figured out! I see. It's relatively easy to overlook this, since Roll20 "characters" in the Journal aren't linked to tokens in the map, even if these tokens are the ones corresponding to your characters. Oh and don't call me Booby, yer not my mother, shouting that in a crowded super market... ;) :p LOL well, I just addressed you by your user name here :-D No idea of the mother/super market implications!

B-o-b-b-y = me B-o-o-b-y = not so much...

Oh I get it now, Bobby A. Typos! And since this isn't my first language and I'm not 100% used to the names, this caught me flat-footed.

Ah no worries, I would speak Spanish at you, but I only know the bad words... Just so you know a "booby" is a teta... Bobby is short for Robert, why my mom would call me that in public is beyond me?

Yeah, it's a teta :-) Thank you for your understanding.

No problema compadre... it happens. Thanks again for your help, earlier.

You are welcome. Let's go on! ^^