Functions

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Functions are a piece of code that accomplishes a task. Typically, they take input and produce an output. Currently, in Templafy, most functions are string functions that take a string or a set of strings as input and perform a task on them, and return an output. Below is a comprehensive list of all the available functions to date, they're linked to pages that go more into depth and provide examples for each function.

Sections in this article:

• General functions
• Date functions
• Text functions
• Numerical functions

Prerequisites

General functions

• IfElse(Condition, TrueValue, FalseValue) - Provides output based on a condition
• DataSourceName[NameValueToLookUp] - Get a row of a data source
• Switch()
• Translate()

Date functions

• FormatDateTime(String, String, String, String, String) - Formats a date
• DateValue(DateTime, Format, Region) - Converts a DateTime in text format into a date object for use in other date functions such as FormatDateTime()
• Now()

Text functions

• StringJoin(Separator, Text1, Text2, Text3) - Joins multiple pieces of text with a separator
• Upper(Text) - Converts text to upper case
• Lower(Text) - Converts text to lower case
• Proper(Text) - Converts text to proper case(first letter of every word capitalized)
• SentenceCase(Text) - Converts text to sentence case(first letter of a sentence capitalized)

Numerical functions

• Ticks(Text) - Get a random number

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