Macro editing and access problem

I have had an account for a very long time but inactive for perhaps near a decade on and off. So recently moved and decided to jump back into Roll20. I had to restore my old games but no worries.

I spent quite a few years teaching myself how to write some cool macros for my Classic Traveller 1977 game. Click on target to attack, etc.

So here is the problem. When I click on the various characters and NPCs I made to test, I can see all of the macros I custom created on the individual macro bar per character. But I no longer see anyway to edit most of them anymore. When I created all of these, they were under the Collection tab in a list of macros. But they are no longer there for access.

I can see and use the macros on macro bar for each character but have no way to edit or update them. And these have nothing to do with character sheets. I never had the level to create my own character sheets hence all of the custom macros.

Have I been away for so long that I can no longer edit or access these macros? Just use them? I wanted to repurpose some for another game but it has been to long and I have no idea how I wrote most of them. I really don't want to start from scratch again. Help.

And I hope this question makes sense.

Can you open the macros in the macro bar for editing by shift-clicking on them?

It sounds like your game wasn't fully recovered. I recommend posting a help request through the help center: https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/requests/new

Rick's tip is the best shortcut to see if (make sure that) you can Edit those macros. Do the shift-click on the Macro Quickbar button, or on a Token Action button.

The ones you're seeing might be stored in the Attributes & Abilities tab of a Character under the Journal tab. It doesn't have to be a Custom Character Sheet (which you mentioned you never had), doesn't even need to have a Character Sheet attached to it at all, if it is a Character under Journals it can have "Abilities" that pop-up as Macro buttons.

Thank you both. I learned quite a bit in regards to your answers. Firstly, I had no idea I could Shift+Click on a Macro button to open and edit. That changes a lot. And secondly, yep, it looks like a bunch of my older macros migrated onto Attributes & Abilities tab on the characters. I never thought to actually look there, sigh.

So now I am going through all the characters and copying all my macros into a master document outside Roll20 for now to look them over and see which game systems I can apply them in, etc.

Again, thanks for the help. Cheers.

Michael L. said:

So now I am going through all the characters and copying all my macros into a master document outside Roll20 for now to look them over and see which game systems I can apply them in, etc.

A note to be careful about programs that do "auto-replcement" or "auto-formatting" for you... you don't want "special" characters (think: curved quotation marks) to creep into your syntax.

Echoing timmaugh: use a plain text editor. Nothing that styles. Also, be careful if you were using really complex macros, These can be altered inadvertently on subsequent re-openings. Special codes can be replaced by their text equivalents. If you don't know what I am talking about, and wrote the macros yourself, you are probably safe. :)

Shift-clicking a macro/ability button to open it is one of those things that astounds people when they learn of it. Even long-time Roll20 employees are sometimes shocked to learn this exists.