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I know per your other post that you guys are set for the initial rollout of this. I'd like to suggest you take a look at how you do the date placeholder though. Doing it in this fashion is pretty esoteric and is going to leave anyone without programming experience scratching their heads.
A "format picker" would alleviate a lot of issues where it just enters the formatting for you would help a lot. Something like a box on one side with all the options and then a box on the other side you just drag and snap into place what you want with an example that populates below the selections. So if you want Month / Date / Year you just drag and drop the those three in order from one box to the other and in the preview you see: 8/20/2020. When you hit accept %m/%d/%Y gets inserted into the title.
Alternatively (or in addition to) if that is too much, just simplify the placeholders. %Month/%Day/%Year entered in the title converts to %m/%d/%Y on the backend.
The new features are great, but I think many programmers (including myself) often forget that things we are very familiar with are not intuitive at all for people who don't have our experience.
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