Custom Placeholders

Custom Placeholders are designed for cases when the source texts contain some less common placeholders that are not highlighted in the source strings (in the Editor) by default.

Configure your Custom Placeholders

Custom Placeholders could be configured in the Organization Settings > Custom placeholders page.

You can find Organization Settings under the user icon in the top menu bar.
Switch to the Custom placeholders page on the left menu bar and click Add Placeholder
In the appeared dialog, specify a custom placeholder expression using the Expressions syntax elements and click Create.

Expression syntax elements

To configure your custom placeholder expression, you can use the elements from the table below. For example, if you’d like to highlight this [[Placeholder1]], your expression might look like this: start, then "[[", range "a,z,A,Z,0,9", limit "1,20", then "]]", end

To simplify things a bit, let’s deconstruct the expression above.

start – indicates the beginning of the expression.
then "[[" – means that your custom placeholder starts with two opening square brackets.
range "a,z,A,Z,0,9" – means that your custom placeholder might include characters ranging a-z and/or A-Z and/or 0-9.
limit "1,20" – means that the length of the placeholder is from 1 to 20 characters.
then "]]" – means that your custom placeholder ends with two closing square brackets.
end – indicates the end of the expression.

Element	Aliases	Description	Usage examples
start	startofline, start of line	mark expression with ^
end	end of, endofline	mark the expression with $
then	find	add a string to the expression	then "abc"
maybe		define a string that might appear once or not	maybe "abc"
word		match any word that contains characters from a-z, A-Z, 0-9, including the _ (underscore) character
anything		accept any string
range		add a range to the expression	range "a,z,0,9"
something		accept any non-empty string
anythingbut	anything but	accept any string but the specified character	anythingbut "abc"
anyof	any, any of	any of the listed characters	anyof "abc"
somethingbut	something but	anything non-empty except for these characters	somethingbut "abc"
limit		add character limit	limit "1,3"
linebreak	line break, br	match \r \n (might be used only with other elements)
tab		match tabs \t (might be used only with other elements)

Assign custom placeholder to the project

To assign the created custom placeholder to a project, navigate to the Project settings > Custom placeholders section and click Assign Custom placeholder.
In the appeared dialog, select the placeholder from the Placeholder dropdown list and specify the desired order of placeholder execution (useful when you’d like to use multiple custom placeholders within one project), select whether you’d like your custom placeholders to be executed before the default placeholders and whether to allow your project participants to save translations without a placeholder and click Save.