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title: Shortcodes
slug: shortcodes
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createdAt: 2023-07-10T19:18:51.752Z
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The narrative manager includes the ability to add "shortcodes" to a narrative template. This allows you to make a generic template, however, when you insert a narrative into your report it will automatically replace the following shortcodes with specific attributes for that patient. Below are the current shortcodes.

### Adding Shortcodes

When adding or editing narrative templates inside of the Narrative Manager you will see a dropdown called "Shortcodes" You can insert the shortcodes by selecting the shortcode you want to enter in your template.

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Below are the current shortcodes that are supported:

1. **\[\[firstName]]** shortcode will automatically insert the patients first name into the template when you add it to a report

2. **\[\[subjective]]** shortcode will automatically insert the patients subjective pronoun into the report narrative (he/she etc)

3. **\[\[subjective-UC]] **shortcode will add an upper case version of the subjective pronound

4. **\[\[objective]]** shortcode will automatically insert the patients objective pronoun into the report narrative (him/her etc)

5. **\[\[objective-UC]]** shortcode will add an upper case version of the objective pronoun

6. **\[\[possessive]]** shortcode will automatically insert the patients possessive pronoun into the report narrative (his/hers etc)

7. **\[\[possessive-UC]]** shortcode will add an upper case version of the possessive pronoun

### Example Shortcode Usage

Given the following template added inside of the narrative manager

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In the [Report Writer](docId\:Al_MvA9yDkBldPtP4JQ4Q) tab you can select this template as shown above by clicking on the templates for that table and selecting the template you wish to add to the report.

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Upon selecting the template it will automatically insert and replace all the shortcodes with the patient names / pronouns as shown below.

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