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Is it possible to use a variable in the default text of a text entry field?
Hello!
I'm currently developing a course where the goal is to have the user input text, then continue to tweak/change that text at various points throughout the course.
I thought this would be e...
Yup, just tried deleting and remaking all my text entry fields and leaving them with the default variables (TextEntry, TextEntry1, etc.) and using the method you showed and it worked!
Thanks for the workaround! It was unclear to me that the default text in a text entry field gets set to the variable that it is also setting. Unintuitive, but it works! Still unclear if it is intended that manually set text in a field in-editor can't read variable values, but this works for now.
Thanks again!