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Home Why Features FAQ Updates Documentation Download Developers Bugs Feedback Discuss Planned Features				Macro Expansion Author:   John VanDyk   Posted: 6/7/2000; 2:29:40 PM Topic: Macro Expansion Msg #: 48 (top msg in thread) Prev/Next: 47/49 Reads: 10920 Suppose that for some reason you want a metadata element named Title. You define it on the Managing Meta Types screen and the Metadata Plugin helpfully gives you a field called Title. The problem is, Manila already gives you a field called Subject. Now you have to type all your titles twice: Macro expansion means you can just type {title} in a metadata field and the title of the page will be substituted when you update that page. Now we've got to type {title} in each time. That's a pain. To make it really easy, set your default value to one of these macros (if you don't know how to set a default value for a metadata field, see Managing Meta Types). In addition to {title} the special macro {member} expands to the name of the member who created the story. Any legal Manila macro may be used. Technical note: a new script, metaDataSuite.utils.qry_peekBuiltinMetaValue(), is used for getting built-in metadata values (such as postTime, subject, member, ctReads, etc.) from the message table. There are responses to this message: Re: Macro Expansion, Jeremy Reichman, 7/26/01; 4:07:20 PM Re: Macro Expansion, John VanDyk, 7/26/01; 9:35:23 PM