Attaching Characters link to Handout

I believe this is the right forum. I am working on creating a self contained 30 level module for roll20 marketplace in 5th edition. But I am having some difficulties producing some special features that doesn't appear to link correctly. I want to be create a handout, and inside the hand out will have a direct link to the character sheet that represents the monster they will be fighting for that encounter. I have tried several of the linking methods to get this results and I have been unsuccessful. I want to be able to provide this feature as there may be several character sheets for Monsters listed and would require a large amount of time to hunt them down for each encounter. I put brackets around the Name of the Character sheet listed Identical to the way it is in the character sheet. This doesn't create anything, and only displays a unliked text with brackets around it. EX: [Character Name] However, it will work for handouts only. I also tried using the link to handouts commands, but it doesn't seem to link to other character sheets. (!  & # 13 ; ) Combined no spaces. It does however work to link to a rollable table or command.

Hey Joshua, you may find the  Link Between Journal Entries section of the wiki useful. The brackets around character names should work. Can you double check that you're typing the character name as it appears in your journal page (including capitalization).

Wonderful, thank you. Apparently I was typing the name wrong or there was an error in the recall or something like that. It now works. It was giving me a error page. But I believe I got it working now. Thanks again.

Actually I found out what really happen. If the [ is in bold by acciedent it automatically doesn't work, it hasn't to be normal text [character Sheet] Worked [ character Sheet] Didn't work

I'm having a somewhat similar issue.  I made my own campaign and kinda copied the way the pre-purchased "Lost Mine of Phandelver" set up their Journal.  I give players handouts with monster images and then have a Bestiary in my DM folder.  The thing is, now that I'm writing my campaign, I want to link to the NPC character sheets, but it always links to the handout instead. (They're both named the same.) I notice in the Lost Mine starter kit, there are links to character sheets in the handouts that don't necessarily use the exact text as the character sheet.  IE The word "Goblins" successfully links to the "Goblin" NPC character sheet. How do you do this?

You can link to a Character or Handout using the special URLs: <a href="http://journal.roll20.net/character/CHARACTER_ID" rel="nofollow">http://journal.roll20.net/character/CHARACTER_ID</a> <a href="http://journal.roll20.net/handout/HANDOUT_ID" rel="nofollow">http://journal.roll20.net/handout/HANDOUT_ID</a> Just replaced CHARACTER_ID with a character id and HANDOUT_ID with a handout id. You can find the IDs from either by creating a link using the [name] syntax and just right click copy it. &nbsp;If you have things that are named the same as each other, you can rename one temporarily to a unique value, then create a link with [unique name], then change the handout or character's name back or to whatever. &nbsp;The link will persist despite the rename and with the former name still in place. Hope that makes sense and helps!

So it looks like you could find the direct link from the games website journal page, not the internal roll20 platform. Then you can apply the link inside a handout. Nice.

Excellent point, the external journal does have the Character and Handout IDs as the last part of the URL.

Thank you so much guys, this is exactly what I was looking for!

So, dumb question. Where is the external journal? Clicking around inside and outside my game and it's not apparent where it is.

Ah, you gotta be pro or plus... whomp whomp

Ah, sorry about that, should have mentioned that... &nbsp;You can still get the functionality you need by using the rename workaround I listed above.