# Interactive Checklist items for custom templates

**URL:** https://discourse.notenik.app/t/interactive-checklist-items-for-custom-templates/365
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [December 5, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/interactive-checklist-items-for-custom-templates/365 "2023-12-05T22:14:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Malcolm](https://discourse.notenik.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@Malcolm](https://discourse.notenik.app/u/Malcolm)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/interactive-checklist-items-for-custom-templates/365/1 "2023-12-05T22:14:45Z")

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The default note display generates interactive checklists - 🤩 - thank you.

![interactive_checkbox](https://discourse.notenik.app/uploads/db0641/original/1X/1d125f8a0c57a782ae1315ca9397ea39d41ef44f.png)

Is it possible to have the same functionality when we apply custom templates? Checkboxes are displayed but they aren’t interactive.

![basic_checkbox](https://discourse.notenik.app/uploads/db0641/original/1X/052fb87e49f006366cedcf833644d13a6adf8d84.png)

It would be a shame not to be able to take advantage of the powerful templating system to create beautiful UI.

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### Author: ![hbowie](https://discourse.notenik.app/user_avatar/discourse.notenik.app/hbowie/32/6_2.png) [@hbowie](https://discourse.notenik.app/u/hbowie)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/interactive-checklist-items-for-custom-templates/365/2 "2023-12-08T19:55:39Z")

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See the [latest beta](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/beta-version-13-5-3-available-for-testing-on-december-8th-2023/368) and let me know if this fixes the issue for you. Thanks for requesting!

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### Author: ![Malcolm](https://discourse.notenik.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@Malcolm](https://discourse.notenik.app/u/Malcolm)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/interactive-checklist-items-for-custom-templates/365/3 "2023-12-08T21:35:17Z")

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Callooh! Callay! It works beautifully.

The `<?allfields?>` command glumly renders checkboxes using glyphs.

I’d like to say, it’s perfect but there is a nasty bug in the `save` function that is altering the inputs. I’ve been seeing this bug for a while, it pre-dates this change. I’ll post in bugs.

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### Author: ![Malcolm](https://discourse.notenik.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@Malcolm](https://discourse.notenik.app/u/Malcolm)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/interactive-checklist-items-for-custom-templates/365/4 "2024-01-28T05:20:50Z")

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- Notenik Version 13.8.1 (614)
- 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
- Ventura 13.6.4 (22G513)

> **Has anything happened in recent releases to cause check lists to lose their functionality when using a custom template?**
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> This afternoon I decided a collection was mature enough for me to modify the display mode with a custom template. One of the notes had a check list and it was displayed as a simple black and white glyph.
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> Renaming display.html and reloading the collection brings the functionality back.

Sorry for the noise. I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing. I’d started with the “Generate Sample Display Template” command. The generated display.html uses the shortcut `allfields`. The function that generates the HTML for `allfields` doesn’t produce interactive check lists. As soon as I uncommented the code things went back to normal.

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### Author: ![hbowie](https://discourse.notenik.app/user_avatar/discourse.notenik.app/hbowie/32/6_2.png) [@hbowie](https://discourse.notenik.app/u/hbowie)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/interactive-checklist-items-for-custom-templates/365/5 "2024-01-28T16:43:58Z")

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Thanks! Good to hear!