Using prompt result in New Draft with Template

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(This has been asked a year ago, but no answer I can work with, so please forgive me if ask it again.)

I am using several prompts to read some data, then I insert these in a template. All works well.

Now I’d like to read a prompt via JavaScript like so:

// Prompt example
// Using Select 

var p = Prompt.create();
p.title = "Select Prompt Example";
p.message = "Demonstrates options for single and multi-option select in prompts.";

var options = ["Mike", "Ugur", "Lilly"];
var selectedOptions = ["Ugur"];

// single selection
p.addSelect("s1", "Select one...", options, selectedOptions, false);

p.addButton("OK");

if (p.show()) {
	var s = "Selected: " + p.fieldValues["s1"] + "\n\n";
	alert(s);
}

and use the result in my template.

How do I reference the result of the above code in a template?

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You need to create your own template tag. After you set your s variable, assign it to a template tag (e.g., selected_option).

d.setTemplateTag("selected_option", s);

You can then use the template tag in your template.

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Thank you for the quick reply. - But d need to be created? Or how’d I assign the current draft to d?

Apologies for the very basic questions, I just started using drafts, coming from Emacs + Elisp, this is all very new to me.

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Sorry, that’s my mistake😖, and you are absolutely spot on about the original assignment making no sense.

d should be draft, which is an inbuilt variable that refers to the current draft.

draft.setTemplateTag("selected_option", s);
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Excellent! That worked. Thank you very much!

Here is the working version:


var person = Prompt.create();
person.title = "Fuer wen ist die Rechung?";
person.message = "Waehle Person aus.";

var options = ["Mike", "Ugur", "Lilly"];
var selectedOptions = ["Ugur"];

// single selection
person.addSelect("s1", "Select one...", options, selectedOptions, false);

person.addButton("OK");

if (person.show()) {
	var s = "Selected: " + person.fieldValues["s1"] + "\n\n";
	var name = person.fieldValues["s1"];
	alert(s);
	draft.setTemplateTag("person_name", name);
}

In my template I reference the tag as [[person_name]].

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For what it’s worth, if you aren’t using name for other things, you could just consolidate to one line.

draft.setTemplateTag("person_name", person.fieldValues["s1"]);
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Probably a basic question but when does that template tag go away? At the end of the script or action? Or when you delete it manually?

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It exists from the point you create it to the end of the action execution run.

I’ve never seen anything to “delete” one, or had a reason to want to explicitly delete one, but you could null it if you needed to - e.g. If you wanted to only populate in certain conditions via a script, but always include it in some final action step template.

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