I am emailing interviewees with set templates. We used to send these emails with fields written as “XXX” marking for the hiring staff to replace those “XXX” with the staff’s name, or other information that changes based on person. I wanted to streamline this by using variable fields often seen in e…

Hi Lin, What I have used in a doc for work (which mean I can unfortunately not share) is to use the compose column to create a text template. In this you can reference any column in the same table. The full CFL is also available so you can access information in any other table. I then use this colu…

This won’t work for us as we have over 100 different templates! Its not sustainable to use formulas as the templates. And because of the large number of templates, everyone needs to be able to easily add/remove/edit templates as needed. Which is the purpose of a dedicated templates table.

There are many, many ways to skin this cat. You can move the compose column to a template table, use Format() to build the body/content of the mail. maybe even use a canvas column with a switchif() for different “types” of canvas column templates. It all depends on what you mean with “variables”, …

The issue isn’t with the replacing of variables. Using regexreplace works perfectly to replace our numerous variables ie {{First Name}}, {{Last Name}}, {{Position}}, {{Age}}, etc. Some templates use multiple variables, some templates use none. They all appear in different places throughout the temp…

Looks like I asked a question that was just recently asked and answered. [image] How do you replace in rich text while preserving formatting? Hi Team, I found a workaround to this that could almost be called elegant. I thought I would post it here in case the next person…

Templates with variables and links

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