String-Type Attributes

String

A sequence of characters, most often as words and sentences. If no default value is specified, a String type defaults to an empty string.

Strings are not delimited (i.e. quotes are not required).

The set and action data types effectively special forms of the string data type.

Default/Empty value

An empty string.

Sorting order

Ascending order using literal string value in lexical sort order.

String-type System Attributes

Built-in attributes of the string data type are listed below:

$Abstract
$AccessDate
$Address
$AgentQuery
$ArticleTitle
$Author2
$Author3
$Author4
$Badge
$BookTitle
$BorderBevel
$CallNumber
$Caption
$CaptionAlignment
$ChosenWord
$CiteKey
$City
$CityKind
$CleanupAction
$Container
$Country
$CreatedFrom
$Creator
$DEVONthinkGroup
$DEVONthinkLabel
$DisplayedAttributesDateFormat
$DisplayName
$District
$DOI
$DominantLanguage
$Edition
$Email
$EmailSubject
$EmailTemplate
$EvernoteNotebook
$FormattedAddress
$FullName
$GeocodedAddress
$HTMLBoldEnd
$HTMLBoldStart
$HTMLCloud1End
$HTMLCloud1Start
$HTMLCloud2End
$HTMLCloud2Start
$HTMLCloud3End
$HTMLCloud3Start
$HTMLCloud4End
$HTMLCloud4Start
$HTMLCloud5End
$HTMLCloud5Start
$HTMLCodeEnd
$HTMLCodeStart
$HTMLExportAfter
$HTMLExportBefore
$HTMLExportCommand
$HTMLExportExtension
$HTMLExportFileName
$HTMLExportFileNameSpacer
$HTMLExportPath
$HTMLExportTemplate
$HTMLFirstParagraphEnd
$HTMLFirstParagraphStart
$HTMLImageEnd
$HTMLImageStart
$HTMLIndentedParagraphEnd
$HTMLIndentedParagraphStart
$HTMLItalicEnd
$HTMLItalicStart
$HTMLLinkExtension
$HTMLListEnd
$HTMLListItemEnd
$HTMLListItemStart
$HTMLListStart
$HTMLOrderedListEnd
$HTMLOrderedListItemEnd
$HTMLOrderedListItemStart
$HTMLOrderedListStart
$HTMLParagraphEnd
$HTMLParagraphStart
$HTMLPreviewCommand
$HTMLStrikeEnd
$HTMLStrikeStart
$HTMLSubscriptEnd
$HTMLSubscriptStart
$HTMLSuperscriptEnd
$HTMLSuperscriptStart
$HTMLUnderlineEnd
$HTMLUnderlineStart
$IDString
$ISBN
$Issue
$Journal
$KeyAttributeDateFormat
$LeftMargin
$MapBackgroundFill
$MapBackgroundPattern
$mt_convert_breaks
$mt_keywords
$MyString
$Name
$NameAlignment
$NameVerticalAlignment
$NotesFolder
$NotesID
$NoteURL
$Organization
$Pages
$Path
$Pattern
$PostalCode
$PosterCSS
$PosterSettings
$PosterTemplate
$Prototype
$PublicationCity
$PublicationYear
$Publisher
$RawData
$ReferenceData
$ReferenceRIS
$ReferenceTitle
$RefFormat
$RefType
$RightMargin
$Role
$RunCommandShell
$ScrivenerID
$ScrivenerLabel
$ScrivenerNote
$ScrivenerStatus
$ScrivenerType
$Shape
$SimplenoteKey
$Sort
$SortAlso
$SortAlsoTransform
$SortTransform
$State
$Subtitle
$SyntaxHighlighting
$TableHeading
$Tabs
$Telephone
$Text
$TextAlign
$TextExportTemplate
$TimelineEndAttribute
$TimelineStartAttribute
$Twitter
$UUID
$Volume
$WeblogPostID

String-type System Attributes set via Document Settings

A number of Document Settings controls set the defaults for String-type system attributes, directly or indirectly:

Text tab:
- $TextAlign. (Deprecated)
Maps tab:
- $Fill.
- $MapBackgroundPattern.

See also—notes linking to here:

list.contains(matchStr)
Displayed Attributes, Value pop-up list
list.icontains(matchStr)
Why is a text 'line' in action code actually a paragraph?
MyString
Displayed Attributes table