How to mix text strings with form commands

Questions and Help
1

I have the following message in a snippet:

Please be advised that {formmenu: tomorrow,; default=on} {formtext: name=date; default={time: MMMM Do; shift=+1D}} at {formtext: name=downtime; default=02:00 UTC} , the game and all its related services (website, forum, help site, wiki etc) will be unavailable due to routine maintenance. The downtime is expected to last {formtext: name=downduration; default=30 minutes} . We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding.

Now, I want to attribute that message to a value, so that I can reuse it multiple times in the same snippet in this way

{message="This is the message"}

{=message}

The issue is that the message contains formtext and formmenu commands, and they are not rendering properly.

I've tried putting that message in a snippet and importing the snippet inside the argument, but again fail. And I've tried using concat, but also to no avail.

Can anyone help please?

2

You can't place form commands within an attribute.

The way could handle this would be something like the following where you separate the form elements from the string creation:

{note}
Down duration: {formtext: name=down; default=abc}
{message="The downtime is expected to be " & down & "."}
{endnote}
Use 1: {=message}
Use 2: {=message}

3

Ah! I did try that but I used the wrong syntax! Now it all makes sense. Thanks again :smile: