Ability to reference name of document within the document

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Hey!

I’d like to dynamically be able to reference the name of the document I’m working in.

Right now, I can reference some properties of the document, like created/modified datetime, and who has modified/created it through e.g.
thisDocument.Created()

It’d be nice if I could reference what the document is named through a function like:
thisDocument.ToText()

or simply:
documentName

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Would this workaround work for you? Basically using the doc url? Or do you want to do more with this?

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That kind of works, thanks! Only that it doesn’t give the flexibility of not being formatted as a link.

The simplest solution is probably just to define a variable for the name once when you create the project, and then reuse that in everywhere in the template. Then the name only has to be changed in two spots: in the document name, and in the first variable.

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This doesn’t work in other places you’d want to use the document name.

For example, with automation that sends a GMail message, I’d like the subject to be something like

= "Open tasks from " + thisDocument.name

so it stands out in the mailbox.

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.ToText() on references has unexpected behavior. As a user, I’d assume .ToText on a reference would return the name of the reference (for example, @SomeSection.ToText() should return the name of the section.) Instead, it returns a string that includes the Coda-internal reference information (for example,“SomeSection_suuGP”).

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I would like to revive this request. It’s 2024 and I need this exact functionality:

I wish we could simply use thisDocument.PageName(), but “PageName expects parameter object to be a table, a control, or a canvas”. Let’s broaden the scope a tad!

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