Roll queries with roll template in sendChat API?

I seem to be stuck trying to send a roll query in sendchat when using a template. If I do: sendChat('HealthColors', "/w GM " + "<br>Click buttons to toggle:" + "<br>Is on:[" + state.auraColorOn + "](!aura --On)" + "<br>Bar:[" + state.auraBar + "](!aura --bar ?{BarNumber?|1})"); It works fine, 2 buttons show up. But using this: sendChat('HealthColors', "/w GM &{template:default}" + "{{name=Click buttons to toggle:}}" + "{{Is on:=[" + state.auraColorOn + "](!aura --On)}}" + "{{Bar:=[" + state.auraBar + "](!aura --bar ?{BarNumber?|1})}}"); I get one (the first) button, but no second button. anyone have any clue whats going on? Does roll templates not accept query type inputs when using a button?

Try subbing in some HTML entities for the { and } and such. I find that the parser can get confused at times and that helps: <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat#Entering_API_Butt" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat#Entering_API_Butt</a>...

That might work.Aaron to the rescue! Was going to steal your script div boxes with buttons, but its way too fancy and sorted out into various functions for me to tear apart and have anything useful left :)

Hmm nope sendChat('HealthColors', "/direct GM &{template:default}" + "{{name=Health Colors-Click buttons to toggle:}}" + "{{Is on:=&lt;a href=!aura --On&gt;"+state.auraColorOn+"&lt;/a&gt;}}" + "{{Bar:=&lt;a href=!aura --bar ?{BarNumber?|1}&gt;"+state.auraBar+"&lt;/a&gt;}}" + "{{Use Tint:=&lt;a href=!aura --tint&gt;"+state.auraTint+"&lt;/a&gt;}}" + "{{Percent:=&lt;a href=!aura --perc ?{Percent?|90}&gt;"+state.auraPerc+"&lt;/a&gt;}}" + "{{Dead:=&lt;a href=!aura --dead&gt;"+state.auraDead+"&lt;/a&gt;}}"); Gives me only the 3 that dont have a query popup :\ The 2 with them dont show up at all.

Does it work with /direct without using a roll template? (After all, the roll template is just prettying up the output, which you can do manually with /direct)

Just tried that, doesn't seem to work correctly. Still no popup for the question. You can click it and it does the command, but doesnt ask you, and returns nothing as an answer. this is what I have: sendChat('HealthColors', "/direct "+ "&lt;a href=!aura on&gt;"+state.auraColorOn+"&lt;/a&gt;" + "&lt;a href=!aura bar ?{BarNumber?|1}&gt;"+state.auraBar+"&lt;/a&gt;" + "&lt;a href=!aura tint&gt;"+state.auraTint+"&lt;/a&gt;" + "&lt;a href=!aura perc ?{Percent?|90}&gt;"+state.auraPerc+"&lt;/a&gt;" + "&lt;a href=!aura dead&gt;"+state.auraDead+"&lt;/a&gt;");

Ok I got it working without the template and direct..I needed both quote types to declare it correctly: '&lt;a href="!aura bar ?{BarNumber?|1}"&gt;'+state.auraBar+'&lt;/a&gt;' But just adding the template info like: '{{Bar:=&lt;a href="!aura bar ?{BarNumber?|1}"&gt;'+state.auraBar+'&lt;/a&gt;}}' Breaks it. Guess ill have to work out making my own div info to put it in :|

BTW, when you put HTML Entities into the chat, you have to put them in like this for them to show up: &amp;amp;#63;

I dont think its that though, but I could be wrong. All the ones that are normal !aura on, !aura tint ,ect format and show up fine doing it either way, its just the ones with a query that dont add a row. Testing it in chat, I think its that the query wants to ask you the question before it makes the button. like typing [Attack Roll](?{Test|answer}) into chat directly doesnt ask you when you push it, it asks you when you hit enter. So in the API it has 'no one' to ask and cancels the command, sort of like closing the popup. So need to figure out a way to ask a question with a button since now I dont think its the API or the template doing it, its the question popup.

Roll queries don't work with the API at all.

HoneyBadger said: Roll queries don't work with the API at all. The way he's wanting to use them, they should. I do it all the time (see Group Initiative's prompts for number of dice, sides of die, etc..). The key is that you have to replace the characters that trigger the expansion of the Roll Query (or any macro, really) enough times that they aren't expanded until the button is pressed. In my more recent scripts I use this function: var esRE = function (s) { var escapeForRegexp = /(\\|\/|\[|\]|\(|\)|\{|\}|\?|\+|\*|\||\.|\^|\$)/g; return s.replace(escapeForRegexp,"\\$1"); }, HE = (function(){ var entities={ '&lt;' : '&'+'lt'+';', '&gt;' : '&'+'gt'+';', "'" : '&'+'#39'+';', '@' : '&'+'#64'+';', '{' : '&'+'#123'+';', '|' : '&'+'#124'+';', '}' : '&'+'#125'+';', '[' : '&'+'#91'+';', ']' : '&'+'#93'+';', '"' : '&'+'quot'+';' }, re=new RegExp('('+_.map(_.keys(entities),esRE).join('|')+')','g'); return function(s){ return s.replace(re, function(c){ return entities[c] || c; }); }; }()); It will perform the escapes necessary to allow the expression to be passed on. The more evaluations the expression needs to pass through, the more escaping you need to do. (Passing things into tipsy titles takes two calls: HE(HE(&lt;something)) ). You might try injecting some calls to that in your code and see if it fixes things? '{{Bar:=&lt;a href="'+ HE( !aura bar ?{BarNumber?|1} ) +'"&gt;'+state.auraBar+'&lt;/a&gt;}}' '{{Bar:=&lt;a href="'+ HE(HE( !aura bar ?{BarNumber?|1} )) +'"&gt;'+state.auraBar+'&lt;/a&gt;}}' '{{Bar:=&lt;a href="'+ HE(HE(HE( !aura bar ?{BarNumber?|1} ))) +'"&gt;'+state.auraBar+'&lt;/a&gt;}}'

They work ok if I do it this way: sendChat('HealthColors', "/w GM &lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;"+ 'Is On: &lt;a href="!aura on"&gt;'+state.auraColorOn+'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;' + 'Bar: &lt;a href="!aura bar ?{BarNumber?|1}"&gt;'+state.auraBar+'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;' + 'Use Tint: &lt;a href="!aura tint"&gt;'+state.auraTint+'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;' + 'Percentage: &lt;a href="!aura perc ?{Percent?|90}"&gt;'+state.auraPerc+'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;' + 'Show Dead: &lt;a href="!aura dead"&gt;'+state.auraDead+'&lt;/a&gt;'); Just ugly as all get out...