Calling character abilities from drop down menu

Hi I’m having issues trying to get a drop down menu working within a character sheet. I can get it to work with buttons. 

 &{template:npcaction} {{rname=Char menu}} } {{description= [start ](~TSAT|Start-area) [Room](~TSAT|room) [Corridor](~TSAT|Corridor) }}

but doesn’t work when I change it to a drop down menu ,

?{Which macro |Start,%(TSAT|Start-area )|room, %(TSAT|room)|corridor,%(TSAT|corridor )

 }

You've discovered why Chat Menus are recommended for this type of thing. Those macros you're trying to link are fully expanded before the Query is parsed. If they contain any of the characters that break a Query (which they almost certainly do) you're going to have to do a whole lot of HTML replacement, creating versions of the macros which won't run unless they're nested in a Query.

Stick with the Chat Menu, is my advice :)

Obligatory Chat Menu link.

Well I was going to link it, then I noticed that Chris already has a working chat menu, so I figured it was redundant :)

thanks for that so if i want to keep drop down , don't want the chat menu if i can get away with with it as it fills up chat log, i need to replace all the } | with there codes 

this is one of the macros it calls so that's all the bold characters ?

&{template:default} {{name=Character start }}{{

[[1t[Starting-Area]]]

 }}

And also the one at the end of the template declaration - &{template:default}. But you can't nest a template in a template. You'll have to completely remove the template from either the parent macro, or the child macros.

And also, never replace characters in Attribute or Ability calls - back in your first post, you have this; %(TSAT|Start-area ), but you want %{TSAT|Start-area}.