The ~%WhatToEnter macro prompts you to enter or pick text or date every time you insert a template into a message. You can type the text directly in the box, select from the drop-down list that is created from items you enter, select a value from a dataset, or pick a date in the drop-down calendar.
When you select the macro to paste it into your template, a dialog window will appear where you pick Text field, Dropdown list, Date, or Dataset:
On this page, find the detailed descriptions of each option.
If you select Text field, you can enter a title for the window and a default value and click Insert:
The macro in your template will look like this: ~%WhatToEnter[10%;{title:"Discount"}].
When you choose Dropdown list, you'll have to enter a window title and several items for your list:
Besides, you can use two additional options:
So, with the entered on the screenshot above values, the macro looks like this: ~%WhatToEnter[10%;20%;30%;{title:"Discount",multiselect,editable,delimiter:", "}]
Pick Date if you'd want to enter a date into certain place in a message and enter a window title:
The Date format drop-down menu is there to see all possible options:
If in the Date format box you selected a format with not only numbers but words as well (for days of the week and months names), you may need to define the language in which these words will be spelled. This concerns all formats that include mmm, mmmm, ddd, or dddd:
You can select a language tag in the Language tag (locale) drop-down list:
For example, to get "Thursday, June 3, 2021", we'll need to pick "dddd, mmmm d, yyyy" in the Date format box and "en-US" in Language tag (locale).
The macro in this case will look like this: ~%WhatToEnter[{date,title:"Discount",format:"dddd, mmmm d, yyyy",locale:"en-US"}]
For example, to get the date spelled in Spanish that is spoken in Dominican Republic, we'll need to add "es-do" as a locale parameter:
~%WhatToEnter[{date,title:"Discount",format:"dddd, mmmm d, yyyy",locale:"es-do"}]
When you insert a template with the ~%WhatToEnter macro, you can pick a date in the drop-down calendar:
On clicking Format, you can change your date format preference if necessary:
You can also set default format and language for your dates and by creating team or profile properties. To learn more, refer to these guides: How to create the DateFormat property and the DateLocale property.
To add values from a dataset to your template text, select Dataset. See the detailed manual on working with datasets on the How to create and use datasets page.
