Document placeholders

Basically I was looking for a way to make filename: give the same output that Jekyll uses to parse posts, i.e. in the format of YEAR-MONTH-DAY-my-title.md so that I could iterate through it easily via {% for post in site.categories.user_posts %} ... etc The closest I’ve gotten is {fields.date}-{fields.title} which gives a filename output of:

2016-11-20T21:07:36.028Z-my title.html.md

I was also wondering if you could put in a setting so we can configure the file format, like instead of .md, we could use .html?

Thanks in advance.

[eduardoboucas]

@twentytwoo Well, it took a while to land this feature, so thanks for your patience and for your help with testing. I’ve deployed the feature to the live API. Will close the issue as soon as I add this to the documentation.

[ctrl-b]

I have a workaround for this feature, I’m sending the values using options[name] hidden fields, everything is preformatted on the client’s side with JS, date and dashed file name, my staticman config file looks like this:

filename: "{options.submitdate}-{options.dashedtitle}"

Additionally it would be great that commitMessage: accepts placeholders too, if so we can include a title or something more related to what was submitted/sent.