How to use another sheet's attributes

Heya, I'm setting up a Steel Defender sheet. I would like to dynamically use my character's Proficiency Bonus. I know I can reference character sheets attributes in chats like this: @{character name|attribute name} - so eg: @{Name|pb} would be proficiency bonus. When I put this into the NPC sheet though, it doesn't produce anything. The reference doesn't work. How do I get this to work? Is it possible?

I'm not familiar with that sheet, but often a sheet will use different attributes for npc than it will for pc.  You might want to right click on the entry field and inspect element to get the correct attribute.  Or check the attributes and abilities tab to see what shows up there (for anything that isn't part of a repeating section).

I don't think sharing attributes values between sheets will necessarily work for all fields since some sheet attributes need to do calculations using other on-sheet attributes, either using html calcs and/or sheetworkers. As a quick test, I was able to use Bob's HP @{bob|hp} on Sue's sheet, but only in non-calculating fields/attributes .  Example; I could enter "@{bob|hp}" on Sue's sheet in something like the @{weight} field and see Bob's HP if I used a macro that called Sue's "@{Sue|weight}", but I could not use it on Sue's @{hp-mod} field which was used to determine Sue's HP.  It was probably recognized as a string of characters and not resolved to a number value which it needed to calculate Sue's hp. In conclusion, while the other sheet's attribute value can resolve in chat, one sheet can not resolve another sheet's value to finish it's sheet calculations.

Ahh, okay. So it'll be impossible to set up Steel Defender using another sheet's attributes. Indeed, I was playing with the saving throws section with the PB stuff. Thank you for the help.

All that said; there may be a way to use an API script like chatsettr to read one sheets attribute and write the value on another...  I'll have a look into that later.  My wife wants the X-mas boxes brought down.  Ugh

I've poked around with chatsetattr but I don't think that'll help out here. The game's GM isn't a PRO user and can't add API to the game.

Cee said: I've poked around with chatsetattr but I don't think that'll help out here. The game's GM isn't a PRO user and can't add API to the game. I see.  I saw your Pro tag and assumed... In case anyone wants to go down the proverbial rabbit hole, I think this post might help with using the chatsetattr script to manipulate attributes between sheets:  ChatSetAttr Evaluate Syntax Help Cheers

Completely understandable. :) But no, in truth, I was wanting to help my party member's Artificer (it's not even my Steel Defender lol, I'm just the most Roll20 knowledgeable). That certainly looks interesting and I might poke around with it in my games I DM - but for this particular case, I'll let them know there's nothing that can be done.

If you uncheck the "NPC" box, you can enter the Artificer's pb into the global skill, save, attack and damage fields on the PC sheet. You'd just need to enter its attacks into the Attacks & Spellcasting section since they don't transfer over from the repeating_npcaction section.

Will have to mess with it and see if the man wants to run it as a character sheet. Thank you for the tip.