Placeholders not being read

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I have a template in the DT ‘Templates.noindex>Toolbar’ folder which carries a placeholder, and it works as expected.

I duplicated that template within the same folder and in the duplicate, dug into Package Contents to modify the *.md file I was using to start like this:

id: %recordName%
start:
deadline:
last mod: %recordModificationLongDate%
links in: %record_incomingItemLinkCount%
links out: %record_outgoingItemLinkCount%

But none of these placeholders are being filled when I open the new template from the “New from template” command. I just get an *.md doc with the raw placeholders as listed above.

I’d appreciate guidance on what I’m doing wrong, which is presumably bleeding obvious but not to me …

2

What template are you dissecting? There are no default toolbar templates.

3

I put my own very simple template in the Toolbar folder, and copied that.

It’s a Markdown doc that starts with %longDate%, which gives me "Wednesday, 26 October 2022’, so I assumed that if I plugged in other placeholders in the new (non-working) template they would be filled accordingly. Not so, thus my perplexity. Is it because it’s Markdown? And if that’s the case, why did the original work?

4

These placeholders are not supported by templates used to create new items as the item and therefore the %record...% placeholders do not yet exist.

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5

I’d better go back and read about placeholders again …