How to use a org-capture template expansion several times in a captured note

Question

I am trying to create a org-capture template that re-uses some text given with the ‘%^{PROMPT}’ expansion along several points of the created note.

I have looked in this link and in stack overflow for such an option without success.

("J" "Jobs" entry (file+headline "~/org/NOTES.org" "Jobs") ; jobs
"* TODO %^{Name of Job}\nSCHEDULED: %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+0d\"))\n 
- [[%x][Advert]] \n 
- Coverletter pdf \n 
- [[file:~/Documents/Personal/CV/CV.tex][CV]] [[file:~/Documents/Personal/CV/CV.pdf][pdf]] \n 
- [[shell:mkdir -p ~/Documents/Personal/$(date +%Y%M_%^{Name of Job})][makedir]]")

The above example prompts me for "Name of Job" in two separate instances. I would like to re-use the information that I have given to fill the template automatically.

Answer 1

On the page you linked, it says you can reuse a prompt value with %\1. Instead of %^{Name of Job} twice, use %\\1 for the second occurrence in your template. You'll need the extra \ because it's inside a string and needs to be escaped.

("J" "Jobs" entry (file+headline "~/org/NOTES.org" "Jobs") ; jobs
"* TODO %^{Name of Job}\nSCHEDULED: %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t \"+0d\"))\n 
- [[%x][Advert]] \n 
- Coverletter pdf \n 
- [[file:~/Documents/Personal/CV/CV.tex][CV]] [[file:~/Documents/Personal/CV/CV.pdf][pdf]] \n 
- [[shell:mkdir -p ~/Documents/Personal/$(date +%Y%M_%\\1)][makedir]]")