thx Nicolas

really appreciate your answer! though im very week in coding so im
struggling to understand. but perhaps an example will help. the following
is a part of my capture:

(add-to-list 'org-capture-templates
'("ff" "Food"
entry
(file+headline (concat pmm "/org/files/agenda/food.org") "Inbox")
"* COOK %^{Recipe Name}
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: %(org-id-uuid)
:Time: %^{minutes|-|10|15|30|60}
:Rating: %^{rating?|-|1|2|3|4|5}
:Source:  %x
:Cuisine:
%^{Cuisine?|-|Indian|Thai|Vietnamese|Asian|Chinese|Israeli|Italian|American|EastEuro|Mexican|French|Persian|Austrian}
:Type: %^{Type?|-|main|side|starter|sweets|drinks|sauce|breakfast}
:Main.ing:
 %^{main.ing?|-|chicken|beef|potatos|fish|seafood|shrimp|rice|pasta|fruit}
:Serves: %^{Serves?|-|1|2|4|6|8}
:END:

%^{prompt|*** Ingredients}
%?
%^{prompt|*** Preparation}

"
"Capture Template for food recipe"
))


so do i need a separate  mapconcat #'number-to-string for each property
value (time,type etc?)

and how dows the %s know which mapconcat command to refer to?

thx alot again

Z


On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > kinda stuck with this and cant find any documentation. would also be glad
> > to know its not possible so i can perhaps explore another method :)
> >
> > im basically wondering if instead of manually imputing string separated
> > with | in the  : %^{} capture template i can provide a lisp way to send a
> > pre defined list of strings ("a" "b" "c") etc.. anyone has any clue?
>
> Since it is pre-defined, you can do the following during capture
> definition
>
>   (format "* Headline
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :Time: %%^{minutes|-|%s}
>   :Rating: %%^{rating?|-|%s}
>   :END:"
>           (mapconcat #'number-to-string '(10 15 30 60) "|")
>           (mapconcat #'number-to-string '(1 2 3 4 5) "|"))
>
> Can't you?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>