Combine journal command, template, and journal link

Howdy! I have a handout with a wandering monster table, I'm turning the "thing to be encountered" column into a link to the character shee for said creature. Some creatures need to have their group size rolled first, say "1d6 bandits". So my thought was to do a roll template, and have one of the entries in the template be the link to the bandit sheet. So I have this template build out that works when I type it into chat: /w gm &{template:default} {{name=Bandits}} {{count=[[1d6]]}} {{Link=[bandit](<a href="http://journal.roll20.net/character/journal_url_bit" rel="nofollow">http://journal.roll20.net/character/journal_url_bit</a>)}} When I put it as a url in a template link: ! /w gm &{template:default} {{name=Bandits}} {{count=[[1d6]]}} {{Link=[bandit](<a href="http://journal.roll20.net/character/-KSZzgQnAHF9HS4Tow_h" rel="nofollow">http://journal.roll20.net/character/-KSZzgQnAHF9HS4Tow_h</a>)}} It breaks the page. If I take the link out, it works. ! /w gm &{template:default} {{name=Bandits}} {{count=[[1d6]]}} {{Link=bandit)}} Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to escape the link syntax somehow?&nbsp; Edit: HTML escaping is messing up some of my formatting, but I'm noting it as per&nbsp; the wiki

Tricky one! You'll need to escape the period in roll20.net twice : !&amp;#13;/w gm &amp;{template:default} {{name=Bandits}} {{count=[[1d6]]}} {{Link=[bandit](<a href="http://journal.roll20" rel="nofollow">http://journal.roll20</a> &amp;amp;period; net/character/-KSZzgQnAHF9HS4Tow_h)}}

Hmm, by that logic, should the "journal.roll" &nbsp;period also be replaced? I still get a white page when I try to follow the link, so perhaps I have even more invalid characters.

Brandon T. said: Hmm, by that logic, should the "journal.roll" &nbsp;period also be replaced? Apparently not, from my testing. Brandon T. said: I still get a white page when I try to follow the link, so perhaps I have even more invalid characters. It should work if you copy, paste and save exactly what I posted. If you've modified something, I recommend posting it.

Very Strang, I'm taking exactly what you have there: !&amp;#13;/w gm &{template:default} {{name=Bandits}} {{count=[[1d6]]}} {{Link=[bandit](<a href="http://journal.roll20&amp;amp;&amp;period;net/character/-KSZzgQnAHF9HS4Tow_h" rel="nofollow">http://journal.roll20&amp;amp;&amp;period;net/character/-KSZzgQnAHF9HS4Tow_h</a>)}} And using that as the url entry in a journal link. Then when I click that link within the journal it takes me to a 404'd page on the app.roll20.net site. The chat log never gets the action. many edits later: You say escape the period twice, I only see one set of escaping periods up there, or is the nested escaping what you &nbsp;mean.

And I finally got it! I actually had to escape the entire link line: ! &amp;#13;/w gm &{template:default} {{name=Bandits}} {{count=[[1d6]]}} {{Link=&amp;91;bandit&amp;#93;&amp;#40;http://journal&amp;#46;roll20&#46;net/character/-KSZzgQnAHF9HS4Tow_h&amp;#41;}} hm

Odd that we're experiencing different behaviour. Oh well, I'm glad that you got it working!

So the plot thickens, As I add second links of such for other creatures, my first link breaks and subsequent links don't work either. So the behavior is totally erratic. :(

Just to really make this more complicated, I do this for my shop generation, and I don't require any html escaping. ignore me, I do something else which has no bearing on journal command buttons.