Sitecore Tokens for Standard Values

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As Sitecore developers, when we're creating templates, a good practice is to add Standard Values so that fields can have default values, or sample values.

For this purpose, we can use Sitecore Tokens, this will allow us to dynamically add values to fields, according to the item that is being created by the Content Author.

Tokens:

These are the tokens that we can use:

Token	Utility
$name	The name of the item.
$id	The ID of the item.
$parentid	The ID of the parent of the item.
$parentname	The name of the parent of the item.
$date	The system date (yyyyMMdd).
$time	The system time (HHmmss).
$now	The system date and time (yyyyMMddTHHmmss).

Example:

Below we can see an example with the $name token. In this example, we have a field with the name Heading, and at the time of creating a new item, this field will take the name of the item.

Thanks for reading!

Now you know how to dynamically add values to your Standard Values and the different tokens you can use in a general way.

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