Inserting a snippet programmatically by "pasting" the shortcut

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Hello,

I'm a Text Blaze Pro user and I'm trying to populate textfields with snippets in order to be able to get a certain number of texts ready to be pasted.

My need is to insert a snippet without really typing it directly into the page (which is done in Javascript).

Currently, I've tried to simulate Javascript events as if typing into a textarea to try making this work but with no success.

This is a similar topic as this older one

Here's an visual example of what I'm trying to accomplish. The idea is that the text of above (colourful) textareas is copied in the main one by clicking on it. But useless if the snippets are not triggered obviously.

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I really need this to work, please tell me it is possible or will be at some point :sweat_smile: :folded_hands:

Here's what i'd like to do programmatically :

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Thank you for your consideration,
Rudy

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Hello and welcome to the forum!

I'd like to ask a few questions to better understand.

  • Is the text box you are wanting to insert the snippet content into in the browser or the desktop?
  • Have you tried the AutoHotKey suggestion from the other post you shared?
  • Why do you want the shortcuts to be in the boxes above, ready to be clicked instead of inserting them through typing?

In the meantime, I want to mention that you can trigger snippets in the browser in two ways other than typing the shortcut. One, by right-clicking, hovering "Text Blaze", and finding the snippet you'd like to insert within the folders. Two, clicking the extension icon in the top right of the browser and inserting your snippet from the menu.

Best regards,
Alexander

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Hey Alexander,

Thanks for the reply and welcome.

In this instance, it's in the browser, the exact website is a local hosting of Mantis Bug Tracker.
We use it in our company to manage maintenance and developments asked by our customers.

Not yet as I'm not quite fond of having to ask all my collegues to install another tool only for this. It seems complicated to me in our use case.

Indeed that's the right question, well, as Mantis is a bug tracker with messages exchanged over a subject, I'd like to provide everyone (of my collegues) using it with pre-compiled responses to match different use cases. The advantage I want to reach though this is :

  • Not everyone in our company is always familiar with existing snippets. (not a good reason but still :wink: )
  • I that way, each person could easily see what the rendered snippet (mostly IA) would be and choose simply between those different texts according to their judgment of the current state of the conversation with the customer.
  • Even more speed in the ways we can answer our customers requests.
  • Trying different snippets to choose the better fit would be time-consuming with the three existing ways to insert a snippet.

I'm aware my case may be far-fetched but I can imagine how having the possibility to apply a snippet programmatically could be a plus for other users also. :thinking:

Hope I have clarified enough, please tell me otherwise.

Have a nice day,
Rudy