Wildcards - lifelike/countersheetsextension GitHub Wiki

Wildcards (similar to UNIX file globs) can be used in headers to refer to object ids, for instance when using a column to Set Text or Set Style or in any other (or most other?) cases where an id is given in a header.

This means that a single column can affect more than one object in the counter, for instance if there are multiple parts of the counter that should have the same fill color set, or if the same text should be repeated in several places on the same counter. This reduces the need for having multiple columns with the same content and makes it faster and less error-prone to modify the counters.

A ? in the id will match any single character, and a * will match zero or more of any character.

A ? at the end of the id will however result in the header to be used for an Option, or a Multiselect if it is preceded by a -. Use a different naming scheme than to rely on several objects to have the same id but only differ in the last character. In practice * is more often used than ? anyway because you can give things more descriptive ids using longer names.

Wildcards can be very useful when working with counters that do not all use the same templates, to still affect all of them (see Combining Templates).

See also: Editing Templates, Combining Templates