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Can i prefill, for example the title field with:
“2008 - week 28”
So when the author makes a new entry, the title field is filled
with: “{current year} - week {current week number}”

Or for example:
“John Doe’s ramblings”
So when the author makes a new entry, the title field is filled
with: “{current user's name}‘s ramblings”

I suppose that could work, perhaps using PHP, in a so-called Stand Alone Entry Form. It would be more difficult for the backend, although an extension could probably do it.

Yeah, thought so 😊

Is there a barebone minimum extension where i can hack away in?

The “file” extension does kinda the same thing, will start there i guess.

Hi MartijnM,

Don’t know if this will help at all but Robin has an extension called Static Field Extension which does this sort of thing. Well it doesn’t put the data in that you are asking after but it does put something in. Might be a start at least?

This is mainly for custom fields from what I remember but it might give an idea of how to go about doing it for the title field though.

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thx, it helped alot, BUT:

publish_form_field_text_input hook doesn’t work on the title field

:-( back to square one

Just as a quick note you could definitely do this if you used a SAEF and some PHP in the template to give what you need. Would that work at all?

Best wishes,

Mark

That would work, but how easy is it to insert a
SAEF into the CP publish, with the same look and feel?

So basicly replace the standard entry form, but with the same
options, so a normal administrator wouldn’t even notice?

It’s relatively easy to copy the look & feel, but you wan’t integrate an SEAF into the CP, it’d be a regular template.