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TL;DR: How do we create a variable in the template that inserts the current date into the topic document upon creation?
Hi all. We have a series of templates our authors use for their work. In each template's prolog, we have a critical dates section. One of those critical dates is the Created Date, the date at which work began on this topic document (which was based on this template).
Desired end state:
<prolog>
<critdates>
<created date="2019-11-05" />
</critdates>
</prolog>
What's in the templates:
<prolog>
<critdates>
<created date="${date(yyyy-MM-dd)}" />
</critdates>
</prolog>
What's in the final documents:
<prolog>
<critdates>
<created date="${date(yyyy-MM-dd)}" />
</critdates>
</prolog>
You can see the template variable isn't resolved into an actual date.
How do we create a variable in the template that inserts the current date into the topic document upon creation? (It should never be automatically updated.) The date syntax above is from the oXygen help topic https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/21.1/ug-editor/topics/editor-variables.html.
oXygen Editor 20.1 / Publication Manager 14.0
Thanks!
