Use dynamic text fields

Use dynamic text placeholders in text fields to personalize content using values from other fields during issue creation.

Templify enables you to define dynamic content inside text-based fields of a issue template. Using simple placeholders, you can inject values from other fields into your issue at the moment it’s created.

This feature helps you personalize issue content, increase reusability, and reduce manual editing after applying a template.

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🧩 What Are Dynamic Text Fields?

A dynamic text field is a placeholder embedded inside a text field (such as Summary or Description) within an issue template. When a new issue is created from the template, Templify will automatically replace the placeholder with the value from another field — based on what was provided or filled during issue creation.

For example, a template Summary might look like:

Onboard {Manager Field:user} before {Start Date:date}

At the moment the issue is created, Templify will resolve {Manager Field:user} and {Start Date:date} using the actual values entered or inherited from the template fields — and render the final content accordingly.

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⚙️ How It Works

Dynamic text fields are written using curly braces ({}), with the following structure:

{Field name:type}

• Field name — this defines the label shown to users in the dynamic input form when creating an issue from the template.

• Type — Specifies the input type that will be showed.

You can use these placeholders in the following fields:

• Summary

• Description

Before the issue is created from the template, a form will appear prompting the user to fill in the dynamic fields.

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✅ Supported Field Types

Templify currently supports the following types in dynamic text placeholders:

Type	Example
datetime	{Start Time:datetime}
date	{Due Date:date}
textfield	{Title:textfield}
user	{Manager:user}
select	{Stage:select(Ala,Bob)}

📝 Note: Support for dynamic field types is continuously being expanded. If you need a specific field type that isn’t currently supported, feel free to contact our support.

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🧪 Interactive Demo

The interactive demo below will guide you through:

1. Setting up dynamic text fields inside a template

2. Creating a new issue from that template

3. Seeing how placeholders are replaced with actual field values in real time

This is the fastest way to learn how dynamic content works inside templates and how it improves automation and personalization.

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📌 Best Practices

• Use dynamic text in Summary to automatically personalize the title of each issue

• In Description, combine multiple dynamic fields to generate reusable content blocks

• Always test templates with placeholder syntax to ensure fields match your current configuration

• For better accuracy, use exact field labels — avoid ambiguous names

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🚀 Coming Soon

We’re planning to expand dynamic text field support even further. Upcoming improvements include:

• Additional field types (e.g. multi-select, cascading select, number)

• Support more fields like Environment, any textfield

• Conditional logic (e.g. show/hide text blocks based on selected values)

Templify evolves with the Jira platform — as new field types and APIs become available, we’ll make them fully compatible with dynamic content.

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