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title: Text, Number, Date
description: "### When to use? All scenarios where you need a simple variable that represents a text (single line or multiline), date, time, number or money in different formats. Variable can be connected to more than one place in a document.…"
url: "https://templatise.it/docs/text-number-date/"
updated: "2024-06-03"
category: Variables / Variable Types
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# Text, Number, Date

### When to use?

All scenarios where you need a simple variable that represents a text (single line or multiline), date, time, number or money in different formats. Variable can be connected to more than one place in a document.

### How end user see it?

Text field for simple text, date, number or money. Can have default value.

### How to use it?

1. Create variable of type **Text, Number, Date**.
2. Choose format.
3. Select text in a document (or click in any place).
    If selected text has multiple occurrences in a document, it will appear checkbox with text "Connect NNN similar instances in the document".
4. Click **Connect.**
5. Click **Save**.

### Formats

Variable has 5 formats:

#### **Text**

- Possible to select **Multiline**option, that will only affect how end-user will see this field while populating template form.

#### **Number, Money**

- **Locale** field loads other fields values, but they can be overridden manually. Locale field is the same Locale field that was used while creating a template.
- Possible to select **Thousands separator**, **Decimal separator**, **Decimal scale**, **Currency symbol** (for **Money**).

#### **Date, Time**

- **Locale** field loads other fields values, but they can be overridden manually. Locale field is the same Locale field that was used while creating a template.
- Possible to select update formats

### Example: Text, Number, Date

1. **Create Text variable**

![](https://templatise.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Group-187-1024x531.png)

2. **Create Number variable**

![](https://templatise.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Group-190-1024x623.png)

3. **Create Date****variable**

![](https://templatise.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Group-193-1024x604.png)

5. **Fill template form and press Generate Document**

![](https://templatise.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-97-1024x445.png)

Generated Document:

![](https://templatise.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Group-195-1024x455.png)