Placeholders do not work for me

DEVONthink
1

Hi,
I have a problem with placeholders in templates. I generated a rtf document as a template. Within the template I used the placeholders

%recordCreationLongDate%
%recordCreationTime%

So I assumed that as soon as I create a document from the template that then the
creation date and the creation time would appear. However the document opens and
all that is shown is the formula:

%recordCreationLongDate%
%recordCreationTime%

But not the creation date and time.

What do I do wrong?

Thanks a lot for your help

2

Record-specific placeholders in templates aren’t supported as the record doesn’t even exist yet. You could use %date% and %time% for the current date/time instead.

3

Perfect, thank you very much !!!

4

As a follow-up, from the built-in Help > Documentation > Automation > Smart Templates section…

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