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Paweł Marynowski edited this page Mar 23, 2015 · 3 revisions

Create file

In order to use custom test as description you need to create new .txt file. Write there text you want to be used as description, eg.

{{SomeFancyTemplate
 |description = %DESC%
 |date = %DATE%
}}

Caution for Windows users
File needs to be saved using encoding UTF-8 without BOM. To do this you can use eg. Notepad++.

You can use variables that will be replaced by Vicuna. Variables are listed in List of variables section.

Load description file to Vicuna

  1. Go to Settings, Program, section Advanced.
  2. Change File desc. source to from external file.
  3. Load saved text file.

You can preview description using button below:

Screen

List of variables

Variables for each file:

Variable Desc
%DESC% Value from Desc field
%CATEGORIES% All categories from Categories field and global categories converted to wikicode
%COOR% Coordinates converted to wikicode
%DATE% Value from Date field

Variables from Settings:

Variable Desc
%ATTRIB% Value from Attribution field
%AUTHOR% Value from custom Author field or `[[user:(name)
%CATEGORIES% See above
%EXTRA% Value from Additional text
%USER% User name
%LICENSE% Selected license converted to wikicode
%SOURCE% Value from custom Source field or own work if Author field is set to Own work
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