Using Rules to Update a dummy text item...not showing up in sitemap

[thefechner (Steffen Sommer)]

Ha, funny, as I didn’t know the exact term how it is called, I did a quick search and found the answer to your sitemap issue.

[SOLVED] When to add "[%s]" to an item label

%s displays the item value as a string (which only makes sense for string-type items). It isn’t required but the only way to display the value in a sitemap (else it’s just displaying the rest as static text). label= in sitemaps overrides what is set in the item definition, so you can do it there, too.

In the same thread there is also a link to an explanation how to display other values than string (e.g. numbers & units)

[SOLVED]Question aboute [%.1f °C], [%d %%], [%.3f kW]

What you are asking about is called String formatting. For example: [%.1f °C]: %.1f means that at that point a floating point number is to be filled in, with 1 digit after the decimal separator (the .), followed by the unit degrees Celcius in this case, but that could be anything. [%d %%]: %d means that a integer number is to be filled in there, and it should be followed by a percentage sign (%), but as the % is already a special character, it is escaped by adding another % in front of it. [%…