Is there a way to prompt for a variable and insert it into a template?

[thatdwayne]

Wondering if it is possible to prompt for a value and then re-use it in a template - for example, as part of a "1-on-1" template:

• Prompt for the name of the person and assign it to a local value such as "fname"
• Insert that name into the title of the node - i.e. <%fname%> 1-1
• Replace that in a query in the template - i.e. {{query (AND (todo todo doing later now) [[<%fname%>]]) }}

[stdword]

Hello!
There is no way to prompt variable via UI. I wanted to implement it, but Logseq has changed it's way of development the application. So no UI prompting for now.

But there are workarounds. You can configure the template with arguments OR property arguments.

Demo for arguments:

Note important template-usage property.

Code

- template:: test
  template-usage:: `:person [[{|}]]`
    - ## ``[c.args.person]``
        - ``'{{query (AND (todo todo doing later now)'`` ``[c.args.person]`` ``') }}'``