Where to put duration to use token in template

Dorico
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where can I put duration to use it in a template with a token.
I only know about the info panel that doesn’t have duration…
we have @projectduration@ but that is a calculated duration.
I need to put the composers said duration. And I need a slot where to put it…
joakim

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You can use any one of the fields in Project Info that you’re not already using. There’s nothing magical to Dorico about the way these fields are named, except to make them correspond to a particular token.

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yes, I already do like that…
but I could use more fields…
thank you,
joakim

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Where in the score do you wish to place it? (I often include mine in the inside-cover title page.) Why not make it a manually typed text frame?

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(This is probably obvious, but there will always be particular bits of information that someone finds useful – and the software can’t include all of them. I think that Dorico provides a very large number to work with.)

Embedded feature request: Instead of adding an infinite number of discrete fields, maybe there’s some way for Dorico to support an arbitrary collection of key/value pairs, and the tokens could be smart enough to recognize {@project<KeyName>@} and {@flow<KeyName>@}

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but these you can’t fill with a value… (?)
thanks,
j

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I think @judddanby’s suggestion was that instead of trying to put something in Project Info and using a token in the template, you could just add the duration to the template as fixed text (either in an existing frame or in a new one). There’s no particular reason that everything on a template has to come from a token.

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I’m afraid I don’t follow you, @joakimsandgren. Are you wanting to show it like this:

Duration: X min or Duration: X(X):XX

Yes, @asherber captured my thought more clearly than I.

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sorry,
yes yes, I mean, sure I can put a text field in a template with a fixed text.
but it’ll be fixed…
thanks !
jj

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Understood. What kind of dynamic flexibility are you hoping for? I understood you to mean that you’d be showing a fixed temporal value given by the composer, separate from whatever Dorico’s calculated duration is.

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exactly, and it would be nice to put that in a field named “duration” instead of in a field named “dedication” or another free field in the project info window…
that was my question :slight_smile:
jjj

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It sounds like you really mean to submit a feature request for a new dedicated duration field in Project Info rather than having a question about techniques for getting text to appear somewhere in the score.

If you’re not wanting to use the Other information field (or it’s already taken up with…well, other information), I think at this point you have no choice but to use a text frame or ether form of music-attached text.

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hello,
I just did that actually.
This is not so catastrophic, I just started to really put up my templates and missed that field…
meanwhile I’ll use another free field as duration. but I need to keep it as logic as possible since I count on doing this for every project. And it feels quite stupid to put the duration in the dedication field, as a method…
that’s “all”…
thank you :slight_smile:
sincerely,
joakim