Business Test Panel and template or global vars

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Hi

In the time that I spent reviewing the docs and trying the usual standard invocations like ${__user.email}, I could not get either global or template vars to implement in the the html content for this nice plugin, still named internally marcusolsson-dynamictext-panel after the original author.

Just sending here in case I am missing something obvious.

(What I see in docs is the interpolation and logic for the data returned form the database returned, which is nice but not what I want now).

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks

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@allomorphy Please use helpers to access variables as described in the documentation:

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Thanks @mikhailvolkov
I had tried the helpers before posting my original question but expected it to just work out of the box for straight var interpolation.
This is what I needed to get going!
{{variable "subject"}}

Thanks for these lovely goodies, will dig further when we need those.

So far on digging, findings from this code:

date formatting
[{{date "1598791377556" "YY-MM-DD"}}]
<br>template
[{{variable "subject"}}]
<br>template mapped to a global
[{{variable "email"}}]
<br>global
{{variable "__user.[1]"}}
<br>variableValue
{{variableValue '${subject}'}}
<br>variableValue
{{variableValue '${__user}'}}
<br>variableValue
{{variable '${__user.login}'}}

printed as follows:

date formatting [24-11-22]
template [115uk@meterbolic.org]
template mapped to a global [da]
global 3
variableValue 115uk@meterbolic.org
variableValue 3
variableValue da
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@allomorphy That’s correct. We kept the original implementation from Dynamic Text.

I am not sure if we want to automatically interpolate them in future release. We will consider it, maybe with a checkbox to avoid unexpected behavior.

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