feat: Add date/time template options to template titles

server/commands/documentCreator.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@
 import { Transaction } from "sequelize";
 import { Document, Event, User } from "@server/models";
+import DocumentHelper from "@server/models/helpers/DocumentHelper";
+
+type Props = {
+  id?: string;
+  title: string;
+  text: string;
+  publish?: boolean;
+  collectionId?: string;
+  parentDocumentId?: string | null;
+  importId?: string;
+  templateDocument?: Document | null;
+  publishedAt?: Date;
+  template?: boolean;
+  createdAt?: Date;
+  updatedAt?: Date;
+  user: User;
+  editorVersion?: string;
+  source?: "import";
+  ip?: string;
+  transaction: Transaction;
+};
 
 export default async function documentCreator({
   title = "",
@@ -20,25 +41,7 @@ export default async function documentCreator({
   source,
   ip,
   transaction,
-}: {
-  id?: string;
-  title: string;
-  text: string;
-  publish?: boolean;
-  collectionId?: string;
-  parentDocumentId?: string | null;
-  importId?: string;
-  templateDocument?: Document | null;
-  publishedAt?: Date;
-  template?: boolean;
-  createdAt?: Date;
-  updatedAt?: Date;
-  user: User;
-  editorVersion?: string;
-  source?: "import";
-  ip?: string;
-  transaction: Transaction;
-}): Promise<Document> {
+}: Props): Promise<Document> {
   const templateId = templateDocument ? templateDocument.id : undefined;
   const document = await Document.create(
     {
@@ -56,7 +59,9 @@ export default async function documentCreator({
       templateId,
       publishedAt,
       importId,
-      title: templateDocument ? templateDocument.title : title,
+      title: templateDocument
+        ? DocumentHelper.replaceTemplateVariables(templateDocument.title, user)
+        : title,
       text: templateDocument ? templateDocument.text : text,
     },
     {

server/models/helpers/DocumentHelper.tsx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
   yDocToProsemirrorJSON,
 } from "@getoutline/y-prosemirror";
 import { JSDOM } from "jsdom";
-import { escapeRegExp } from "lodash";
+import { escapeRegExp, startCase } from "lodash";
 import { Node, DOMSerializer } from "prosemirror-model";
 import * as React from "react";
 import { renderToString } from "react-dom/server";
@@ -12,12 +12,19 @@ import * as Y from "yjs";
 import EditorContainer from "@shared/editor/components/Styles";
 import GlobalStyles from "@shared/styles/globals";
 import light from "@shared/styles/theme";
+import {
+  getCurrentDateAsString,
+  getCurrentDateTimeAsString,
+  getCurrentTimeAsString,
+  unicodeCLDRtoBCP47,
+} from "@shared/utils/date";
 import { isRTL } from "@shared/utils/rtl";
 import unescape from "@shared/utils/unescape";
 import { parser, schema } from "@server/editor";
 import Logger from "@server/logging/Logger";
 import Document from "@server/models/Document";
 import type Revision from "@server/models/Revision";
+import User from "@server/models/User";
 import diff from "@server/utils/diff";
 import parseAttachmentIds from "@server/utils/parseAttachmentIds";
 import { getSignedUrl } from "@server/utils/s3";
@@ -307,6 +314,24 @@ export default class DocumentHelper {
     return text;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Replaces template variables in the given text with the current date and time.
+   *
+   * @param text The text to replace the variables in
+   * @param user The user to get the language/locale from
+   * @returns The text with the variables replaced
+   */
+  static replaceTemplateVariables(text: string, user: User) {
+    const locales = user.language
+      ? unicodeCLDRtoBCP47(user.language)
+      : undefined;
+
+    return text
+      .replace("{date}", startCase(getCurrentDateAsString(locales)))
+      .replace("{time}", startCase(getCurrentTimeAsString(locales)))
+      .replace("{datetime}", startCase(getCurrentDateTimeAsString(locales)));
+  }
+
   /**
    * Applies the given Markdown to the document, this essentially creates a
    * single change in the collaborative state that makes all the edits to get