Placeholders in messages
2 min
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
Add a new placeholder in the messages.json, RECIPE_INFOS_TIME: %s is a placeholder.
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.
$functions.formatTimeString($context.content.properties.<YOUR_DEFINED_PROPERTY>)

views.json