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In most websites, there are strings or variables that will be used throughout the site. Especially in sites that need to support multiple languages, it is not a good idea to hard code such values. Instead placeholders can be used and managed centrally.
Placeholders can be managed as a spreadsheet that is either in the root folder of the project or in the locales root folder in the case of a multilingual site.
- Name the file
placeholders
for Google Docs. - Name the file
placeholders.xlsx
for SharePoint.
The spreadsheet has to contain at least two columns titled Key
and Text
.
- The
Key
column is an identifier that is transformed automatically to be easily accessible via code. - The
Text
is the literal text (or string) for a placeholder with a given key.
After making changes to your placeholder spreadsheet, you can preview your changes via the sidekick and have your stakeholders check that the new placeholders are working on your .page
preview website before publishing the placeholder changes to your production website. See the Sidekick documentation for more information about switching between environments.
Are you a developer and curious to learn how to use placeholders in your code? Look here.