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Linking Handouts to Tokens

So I'm creating a world map for my campaign and am using icons/tokens to represent places they've been or events that have happened to them (ie: a small castle icon for a large city they went to or crossed swords for a battle they had). I would love to create handout pages for these locations and events and have it so that my players can click on the tokens on the world map to quickly bring up that handout. I VERY VAGUELY remember seeing someone doing this in a youtube video once but now I cant seem to find said video and I cant figure out how to do it myself. Is this even possible? I have a pro level account as well so I can utilize API's if necessary. Thanks in advance for your help!
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Bast L.
API Scripter
I don't believe click events in the canvas are accessible via the API, nor can I find anything about handout "show to players" in the API wiki, but there is a not great method for doing what you want: 1) In the gmnotes section of the handout for the location, type [Handout Name] (with brackets, and with Handout Name replaced by the name of the handout). Save the handout. Right click the link that now appears in the gmnotes section. Copy link address. 2) Create a character sheet for the location token or marker, or sign, whatever it is you want them to click on. 3) Make sure the token is assigned to that sheet. 4) In the attributes and abilities tab, create a new ability, and call it "Location" or whatever you want. In the body, type: [Location Info](link address), where link address is pasted from your clipboard (the link address you copied in step 1). Save the ability, and check the box that says token action. Example: [Location Info](someURL) 5) Make sure the sheet is controllable by all players. Ask your players not to move it (or use token lock api or something).  6) Players can now click the token action, and then click the link which will appear in chat.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Here is my guide to making Map Pins . It really could use some expansion, and you might be able to glean more from these links, too: Invisible Tokens - The Notes Token Invisible Tokens - The Notes Token (API version)
This is one of the top suggestions on the suggestion forum. I would recommend adding your vote to it to get it higher. Though there are odd work arounds, it would make sense for this to be native to a tabletop rpg app. <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/4664065/map-pins-linked-to-handouts/?pageforid=4664065#post-4664065" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/4664065/map-pins-linked-to-handouts/?pageforid=4664065#post-4664065</a>