A couple questions about Queries

Heyo all. I was playing around with a macro that posts a query to try to streamline some rolls for my players, and I hit two snags that my initial research hasn't found answers on, and these are: Whenever I nest a query inside another, I am using escaped curly brackets, comma or pipe. ( &#125 ;, , and | ) But, it seems that at some point, maybe when I close the tab of the game and open it again, it substitutes the escaped forms for the common forms ( } , , and | ) So, when I come back to my game, the query no longer works, because it no longer treats }, , and | as escaped inputs. Am I doing something wrong? How many queries can I nest together? By what I tested, it seems I can only make 2 subsequent queries. I can only go question 1 > question 2, and not question 1 > question 2 > question 3. Again, am I doing something wrong? Thank you guys for the help, I've posted quite a few times in the past few days and I appreciate the support.

The Roll20 parser will resolve all html replacements whenever you close your macro. It's best to keep a pristine copy somewhere outside the game. Alternatively a better practice (IMHO) is to use a  Macro Character Sheet , and code everything as Actions instead of Macros. Actions generally avoid the substitution problem, and will retain the code as you wrote it. Nesting queries can get eye-watering very quickly. My suggestion would be to use a  Chat Menu  for anything complex. They are much easier to code, and maintain, and even easier when you are using a Macro Character Sheet.

keithcurtis said: Nesting queries can get eye-watering very quickly. My suggestion would be to use a&nbsp; Chat Menu &nbsp;for anything complex. They are much easier to code, and maintain, and even easier when you are using a&nbsp;Macro Character Sheet. The <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Chat_Menus" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Chat_Menus</a> page has more details &amp; examples than your original forum post, and is a more practical guide to link when bringing it up. (you could edit the tip to link to the wiki page)

If you absolutely need to pursue a nested query option you need to&nbsp; escape the ampersand for each level you go down: } becomes &amp;#125; which becomes &amp;amp;#125; which becomes &amp;amp;amp;#125; which becomes &amp;amp;amp;amp;#125; etc etc

Hello, everyone! I'm testing around with the Char Menus, and I had seen that only briefly before, I hadn't thought of using it. With the guide linked here, I could make it work very easily, and I think it looks very neat! Also, I wasn't aware about the ampersand trick, I'll keep that in mind if I ever need it again! I'll also save all my macros somewhere else in case they get changed. Thank you guys!