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Text drag and drop working for everyone EXCEPT GM?

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Archibael
Pro
Sheet Author
I've recently been toying with importing various different information (spells, weapons, etc.) from external text files to character sheets. I came up with something that seems like it will work for me and my players, and it involves highlighting and dragging text from a handout or from the chat window into a field of the character sheet. I didn't even know Roll20 had this capability until I played around with it, but you can indeed highlight text in a handout or in Chat and drag it to some other text field... awesomeness.  But when logged in as the GM, it doesn't work for some reason, even though when I re-login as a player in the same game it works flawlessly. As GM, the behavior looks the same as for the player... when dragging, a translucent icon of the text follows the mouse to where you want to drop it.  But then when you release the mouse button as GM, nothing happens... while, for a player, the text automagically appears where you placed it. Is this an intentional security thing to protect me from myself, or is this a bug that you guys are unaware of?
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Archibael
Pro
Sheet Author
Sorry, was in a hurry to post and didn't follow the guidelines Detailed description of the problem When dragging and dropping highlighted text from Handouts to a text field in a character sheet or even to the chat window as a PLAYER the text is pasted into the text box or chat box when the left mouse button is released.  When doing the exact same action when logged in as GM, the action appears to execute in the same way, but when the left mouse button is released as GM, the text is not pasted. Minimum number of steps to reproduce the problem Type text into a Handout.  Highlight this text with a mouse and drag it to the Chat data entry window.  It will appear if you are logged in as PLAYER, but not if you are logged in as GM.  This happens in Firefox and Chrome, with and without all extensions disabled. Description of setup Chrome 88.0.4324.104 (Official Build) (64-bit) Application Launcher for Drive, Google Docs Offline, Docs, Sheets, Slides Win10 Pro (x64)
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Hi Archibael, The best place to send this info is in a  Help Center Request . It will automatically create a ticket. The devs have requested since early last year that bug reports requiring dev assistance go there for this reason. Was there a specific instruction that directed you to post it here (other than the name of the forum itself)? I'll report that to the powers that be when I again lobby for a name change of this forum.
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Archibael
Pro
Sheet Author
Other than the name, nope.  I'll do that.  Thanks, Keith.