Copy XML for Macro

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@peternlewis

It's never a bug.

OK, that is technically not true, but honestly, and with as much humility as I can muster, it's almost always true.

Haha, I knew that felt off even saying that. I need to instead say can you explain this behavior as to not come across presumptuous.

@peternlewis

Your Insert Text by Pasting action is configured to process tokens, so it dutifully processed the tokens in the XML before pasting the result, and since the XML has unencoded tokens like %PromptButton% and others, the results are that the tokens are processed when you paste, not left unprocessed.

Thanks for the explanation.

@_jims

If the XML is copied and pasted into a text editor, and %PromptButton% is replaced with \%PromptButton\%, I think the XML will then behave as expected when pasted back into the KM Editor.

Thank you that was the ticket and worked!

@Zabobon

I think changing %PromptButton% to %%PromptButton%% in the body of XML text will work too.

As soon as I read this I thought to myself "duh me," I have done that before. I tried it and it too worked. The difference though is I had to go into the XML to do this where as with the former I just needed to do that before I copied to XML.

I also just realized that part of the problem was using the shortcut macro to copy XML. If I use it with something like this then @_jims will still work. However if I add the %%PromtButton%% and then run the macro I lose the Token altogether.

I don't know eneough about why but at least I know what to do now.

Insert XML By Pasting Action

Insert XML By Pasting Action.kmmacros (33 KB)