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Drop Down Query Style to Select Macros

July 22 (10 years ago)
This is one I'd really like to see...

So, lets say I am playing Pathfinder, and I can cast Summon Monster II... And, for each of Reference, I have a macro that shoots out the summoning in a nifty little chart:

(For example)

&{template:default} {{name= **Earth Elemental** (Small)}} {{Senses= **Dark Vision** 60 ft. **Tremor Sense** 60 ft.}} {{Perception = +4}} {{Initiative = -1}} {{AC = **17** (Touch 10, Flat-Footed 17)}} {{HP= **17** (2d10+6)}} {{Saves= Fort +6, Ref -1, Will +3}} {{Speed = 20 ft. **Burrow** 20 ft. **Earth Glide** 20 ft.}} {{Attack= Melee Slam +7, Damage 1d6+10}} {{Immunities= Bleed, Paralysis, Poison, Sleep, Stun}} {{Notes= Not subject to critical hits or flanking. Does not take additional damage from precision-based attacks, such as sneak attack.}} {{Additional Notes= Proficient with natural weapons only - or if in humanoid shape, proficient with all simple weapons & natural weapons.}}

This is a macro named "Earth-Elemental" which of course, I can call, in the chat with: #Earth-Elemental

But... It would be REALLY nifty if, instead of that... I could do a Query Command that created a drop down list, that I could select a list of macros from...

So, for example:

?{Summon Monster II (Select Monster)| Earth Elemental, #Earth-Elemental| Air Elemental, #Air-Elemental}

Currently you cannot use the drop down query boxes to call macros. I think that it could be very useful. Not just for the example I gave above but say, a Macro for Use Scroll that selects a drop down that lets you select which scroll macro you wish to use or even one for spells.
July 22 (10 years ago)
Actually you can for character abilities (macros):

?{Summon Monster|Earth Elemental, %{CharacterName|Earth-Elemental}|Air Elemental, %{CharacterName|Air-Elemental}}
Really, what's needed is more streemlined in-sheet macro calls or, at the very least, the instruction at the bottom that tells you how to do it needs to be corrected.
July 22 (10 years ago)
HoneyBadger I was told that you can't call macros through them, I guess it works if they are character defined rather than general macros?
August 06 (10 years ago)

Edited August 06 (10 years ago)
Doesn't work if I call a character ability macro that has a roll template.
October 12 (8 years ago)
Anything that would help expand queries to be even more powerful would be nice. So I'm all for this.

I have my own ideas for queries (as listed on this forum post) that I would like to see implemented. There are ways to make it work currently, but are more complex and require more maintenance than I think ought to be required. I don't think it'd take much effort to have roll20 evaluate all queries (even if they are the same name) so that way they could be used to pick one option but different values as they appear in different places of the macros. 
October 13 (8 years ago)
If they simply changed the syntax for queries we could avoid all the need for HTML replacements. The comma , comes up far too often in a regular sentence and causes problems but the curly brackets } that are shared with roll templates are the real trouble.
Current syntax:  ?{question|message1,option-1|message2,option-2}
Possibly syntax. ?(question|message1;option-1|message2;option-2)

Nested queries are another problem, that I'm not sure how we could fix.
February 14 (6 years ago)
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