Text Templates

Text templates allow users to define the content of all text that is automatically generated. It does this by using a combination of text and variables and (rarely) template control words. Variables are identified by the dollar sign and enclosing parentheses and are replaced with the appropriate text value when the text is generated. In some cases a variable represents the output from a different template.

As an example, when the text for the written instructions for a row are generated the 'Row Label' template is used to generate the label for the row. The default definition for the 'Row Label' template is;-

Row ${ID}:

${ID} is a variable that represents the identifier for the row. Hence for row 1, the identifier is '1' and the generated row label is;-

Row 1:

If the 'Row Label' template was edited to;-

${ID}. row:

then the generated row label would instead be;-

1. row:

Details of all of the templates and of the valid variables for each template are listed on the Template Details page.  

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