Issue: Placeholders in some template fields are unnecessary and don't work.

[zivbk1]

Describe the bug Placeholder {{title}} is not being used when making new content from a template.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to a content template.
2. Add the placeholder "{{title}}" to the 'title' field in the frontmatter of the template.
3. Make new content from the template.
4. See that the text {{title}} is in the field instead of the title entered when creating the content.

Expected behavior I think that this is because fields like title and date do not need a placeholder and will be filled in automatically. But I would expect that if I add the title placeholder into the template that the text would render there.

[estruyf]

Just tried it with the {{title}} and {{now}}, but cannot seem to reproduce it. The placeholder engine runs through all fields.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2900833/154590569-30ddef4f-20b9-4a2d-aed8-c25ef02dec35.mov

Do you do something different here?

[zivbk1]

I'll double check, but when I tested, it looked identical to your setup.

[estruyf]

@zivbk1 does this still occur?

[TsvetyD]

Hi, estruyf!

A quick question please!

If I create a MD file from the above template:

---

title: "{{title}}" date: "{{now}}" lastmod: "{{now}}" draft: true tags: [] categories: [] type: blog

Is there a way I can use the Placeholders in the body of my MD file?

I imagine If I add something like:

{{thisPage.title}}

then in the MD preview it will be replaced with its value - The title of the page

So do we have such "hack"? :)

[estruyf]

Hi @TsvetyD, there is currently no placeholder processing happening in the contents of the template or page, but can be suggested as a future enhancement to the extension.

[TsvetyD]

Thanks for the answer, estruyf! :) For me, that would be a very useful new functionality!

[estruyf]

Do you only want to have it for the title? Or do you have other use cases?

[bwklein]

I could see this being useful if we could define a field group for the input to the template too.

[TsvetyD]

Hi Estryuf,

It would be great if I can define my own Placeholders and use them when creating content from Templates.

My use case is:

I'm writing similar documentation files that explain how to create Users, Roles, Business Units etc. So I could have a "CreateItem" template where I can define a Placeholder and replace it in the body of the MD with "User", "Role" or "Business Unit" depending on the content I'm creating.

And for all the items, I can also have "DeleteItem" and "EditItem" templates with the same Placeholders.

My Template could look like this:

---

ContentIem: "{{ContentIem}}"

To create a "{{ContentIem}}":

1. Go to .... and click...

And then when I create the content MD file from that template it will replace the "{{ContentIem}}" with "User", "Role" or "Business Unit" depending on the content I'm creating.

But if you think that only a few people can benefit from it, then you can ignore my idea.

Thanks!