--- title: Placeholders in messages slug: experience/placeholders-in-messages description: In the Purple Experience Builder, assume you would like to add an extra variable to recipe-infos-time via variables field in views.json, that you want to style accordingly. At the same time, you want to fertilise the clean use of data by your editors. docTags: createdAt: 2023-08-31T12:18:07.473Z --- ### Scenario You want to add an extra variable to recipe-infos-time via the variables field in views.json in your Purple Experience. ![Messages.json](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/ygR6KtT9QI_R0u3uKTJsm/HWRBl1sQOUKS7avpYXkPN_microsoftteams-image-1.png "Messages.json") :::::WorkflowBlock :::WorkflowBlockItem Add a new placeholder in the `messages.json`, RECIPE\_INFOS\_TIME: `%s` is a placeholder. ::: ::::WorkflowBlockItem Add a new entry to the "variables" in your `views.json` and pass it  in the data you want it to replace the `%s` with, e.g. :::BlockQuote $functions.formatTimeString($context.content.properties.\) ::: :::: ::::: ![views.json](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/ygR6KtT9QI_R0u3uKTJsm/Weo9am2vVt0GqZK5aZiWj_microsoftteams-image-2.png "views.json")