Variable Substitution

With the release of Indigo 5 and server plugins, it's now possible for plugin writers to enable configuration text fields to accept special markup that will substitute a variable value at runtime. Any string with the following markup will have a variable value substituted:

%%v:VARID%%

VARID is the unique variable ID as found in the UI in various places.

So, for instance, if one of your actions is to use the Growl plugin to do a notification, in the title and/or description fields you could enter something like this:

Turn on the A/C unit - the outside temperature is %%v:VARID%%.

The value specified would be substituted just before the notification was sent.

Note - not all text fields will support variable substitution. The plugin developer must enable it specifically. Check the plugin documentation to see if the field you're interested in supports variable substitution.

plugins/variable_substitution.txt · Last modified: 2019/01/26 00:10 (external edit)
 

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