Formula to Retrieve Page Title

[Chris_Herrmann]

Hey Coda community,

Does anyone know if it is it possible to retrieve the title of a page for use in a formula?

[Yoav_Brog]

Looking for the same thing

[Connor_McCormick]

How to pass information to a duplicated page

With the new duplicate page action, it’s quite nice to be able to create a template of a page and duplicate it. However, there is an issue with this approach. Sometimes you will want to pass information to the new page. For example: In a customer wiki that contains information about your customer, you’ll want to pass the customer name In a meeting doc, you’ll want to pass the current date (if you have a new page for each meeting) This doc offers a (dirty hacky) solution to that problem. Ove…

Specifically this part:

@Connor_McCormick

3. Get thisMeetingDate

Now, create another formula called thisMeetingDate . It looks like this:

thisPage.ToText().Split("/").Last().Split("_").First().ToDate()

This formula extracts the date part of the url.
If the url is: https://coda.io/d/_dV-vk_8iWzc/Meeting-Template_su55M

1. Convert it to text
2. Split it along forward slashes “/”
3. Grab the last bit Meeting-Template_su55M
4. Grab the first part
5. Convert it to a date

You can use:

ButtonOnPage.Url().ToText().Split("/").Last().Split("_").First()

[Lena_Webster]

Hey Chris, thanks for posting your question here. The short answer is unfortunately: no. We don’t currently support pulling a page name formulaically. It’s a commonly requested feature and something we’re considering building out, so definitely stay tuned on that one.

But in the meantime, it seems like Connor’s workaround above could be pretty handy in most situations, so feel free to check that out!

[Kelly_Claus]

@Lena_Webster I need this too!

My use case is a “help” button that shows a detail popup view. I want to capture which page the user is having the issue on, so the formula would be =thispage or something of the sort.

[benoit_gramond]

@Lena_Webster

Hey Chris, thanks for posting your question here. The short answer is unfortunately: no. We don’t currently support pulling a page name formulaically. It’s a commonly requested feature and something we’re considering building out, so definitely stay tuned on that one.

Hi @Lena_Webster ! I need this one too ! Kind regards

[gisepi]

@Chris_Herrmann I’ll try and create a pack for this.

[Matthew_Campbell1]

It looks like the Url format for buttons changed and removed the page title in favor of just a shortened ID based URL as of today (it worked for me last night). I guess that’s fair as this was an undocumented feature in the formulas therefore it has not guarantee of stability, but still a major bummer. This severely breaks my workflows for generating invoices and quotes in my Coda setup.

[Agile_Dynamics]

There is an official and supported formula PageName(anObject) that will return the name of of the page on which anObject appears.