Templates - preserve formatted text

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Dylan B Graham

• March 24, 2022 01:32

When setting up a template with formatted text (eg bold, coloured, etc), the template defaults the text back to unformatted when a new version is produced. This very much reduces the utility of templates as an efficiency tool.

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • March 24, 2022 12:05

  Hi Dylan,

  How are you creating your templates? Are your hitting the "+New" template button or pasting in code?

  What platform/ device/ browser are you using? I'm not able to reproduce loss of formatting (color, typographical emphases, etc.) in Chrome...

   

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  Dylan B Graham

  • March 25, 2022 21:01

  I hit the "+New" button. It is reproducable in Safari browser, chrome, the Mac and iOS app. 

  Sorry I see the problem now. The formatting on the top level bullet is removed. I assume this is because you replace the text manually of the top bullet. I did have a use case whereby I wanted the formatting to persist but I can see now why it doesn't.

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  James B. Elliott

  • March 27, 2022 15:26

  Actually, I think it would be really helpful to be able to set the formatting for top level bullet. I have a meeting template that I like to incorporate into a time boxing style view of my day, with bullets for every half hour. I'd like to be able to add meetings but for the meeting headers to be a different color, so I can see at a glance which items are meetings and which items aren't.

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  Alex Wolfe

  • June 01, 2022 17:07

  +1 on the top level bullet formatting being retained - it helps differentiate the bullet and I expected that behavior when setting up the template

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