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Add additional 'markup' capability to Project Descriptions

As can be inferred from the Geni API, there are a number of "variables" that Geni already keeps track of, such as the number of profiles in a Project.

It would be very useful to have a way to include the contents of some of those "variables" in a Project's Description text.

Two in particular would be to include, given another project's ID, to insert that other project's title or its count of the number of profiles.

Just to make up an example, putting something such as:

<project:project-id:project-variable-name>

might display the value of 'project-variable-name' from that particular 'project-id'

With two variables of 'project-ttile' and 'project-profile-count', one could have an "overview" or "portal" project provide a self-updaing list of sub-projects (even though new sub-projects would have to be added by hand).

 

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