Autofill Terms of Service

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Users are discussing the need for an autofill feature for Terms of Service (ToS) templates, particularly to automatically populate placeholders like company_short_name and company_domain. nahtnam initially asks if such autofill is possible; codinghorror confirms it’s not currently available but suggests using search-and-replace in a text editor, and later notes it could be added as a feature request codinghorror. James_Higginson mentions using an external editor to avoid formatting issues, and codinghorror clarifies the setup wizard handles this for new sites — though James_Higginson notes he missed that and had to edit manually. ggstuart echoes the need for auto-replacement of company_short_name, especially for existing sites where templates weren’t properly templated — suggesting it would be “pretty handy.” sam agrees, noting that while the wizard helps new sites, existing ones still require manual find-and-replace. The consensus leans toward implementing this as a feature to improve usability for both new and existing installations.

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Hey!

Is there a way I can get the TOS to autfill the company_short_name and company_domain?

Thanks.

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Not at this time, I suggest a search and replace operation in the editor of your choice.

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Kk. Thanks. Please close.

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We can make it a feature request for the future.

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I use this to edit the ToS document as it does not mess up the formatting like my text editor did.

https://stackedit.io/editor

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The setup wizard takes care of this now courtesy of @eviltrout

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I must have missed that, I needed to do it manually, is there anything else the wizard can help me with? If so where is it? :slight_smile:

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No, it won’t help you unless you are setting up a new site for the first time.

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I have a site in which I have only just realised my default terms of service include ‘company_short_name’ throughout. A way to bake in the company_short_name would be pretty handy. Embedding a placeholder for company_short_name would be really handy if the template text was otherwise altered. It would make changing the name a painless process.

For my immediate case, I will find and replace in a text editor if this is the current advice.

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Yes, the wizard change helps all new sites, but we have a bit of a history problem here.

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