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Build texts with variables from other actions - String Templating

planned

Renat Gabitov

The ability to add any field from previous actions as an action argument.
For example:
*Action: Send email action
* Argument: Body
Hey {Name},
Just a reminder we are meeting on {time}.
Here is a link to join: {meeting link}.

March 11, 2022

Ivan Escobar

Work around discovered! 🙌🥳
Combine multiple fixed texts, "Ask me every time" variables and data from previous actions (and the scraper) using the "Merge texts" action!
Playbook example: https://bardeen.ai/s/ZSIvWgkadUoy
Deepak Kumar Clint Gibler

Clint Gibler

Ivan Escobar: Thanks for the heads up! 
Feature request: make it easy to review shared Playbooks like this without "installing" them. 
When I go to the link you provide, it doesn't seem possible for me to see what the Playbook does without clicking "Try it." Would be great to be able to browse it right there on the page or something.

Deepak Kumar

i am trying to send out an email whenever the page content changes. I would like to add the below content in the Text area of the email.
Hi There,
we identified the content in the following KB article has been updated - {{current page URL}}
But this isn't possible right now.

Ivan Escobar

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planned

This is a planned feature, yet we don't have certain dates for it's release.

Ivan Escobar

Agree on this one, will open up tons of new use-cases for Gmail, Airtable multi-line texts, and creating elaborated tasks on Jira, Asana, Clickup, etc...

For now I recommend using the "merge texts" action to create customized strings (texts).

Clint Gibler

String templating would be very useful for me as well! Would love this feature.
As a user, the "merge texts" action currently is fairly frustrating to use to be honest, as if you type a hardcoded string in one of the fields, press enter (which converts it to a Text object or something), then it is no longer editable. 
Say you made a spelling mistake (which I just did, in an automation I'm trying to build). You can't double-click the Text object to edit it, or press backspace a few times to change the ending, or cut/paste it again and then modify it, the only
 thing you can do is delete the whole thing and start over.
This makes manually creating JSON, for an HTTP POST request for example, quite challenging. 
Allowing Text objects to be edited/modified would help, and adding String  Templating would be best of all.

Artem Harutyunyan

Clint Gibler: Hey, thanks so much for such elaborate feedback. We too think that merge texts is pretty horrible :). We put it in place as a very temporary crutch. Please stay tuned on this one!