State to abbreviation
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Fragment of a discussion from Help talk:Properties and types
then you can probably use Parser Functions extensions, i.e. switch function. You can wrap into a template an expression that will check the value of the property State and the consequence of switch will be setting StateAbr property.
Didn't even think of that. I was able to put it into the Semantic Form, so it does the switch once when the page is created and that's it. Thanks, and here it is in case it might save someone some time.
{{#switch: "Entered State" | Alabama = AL | Alaska = AK | Arizona = AZ | Arkansas = AR | California = CA | Colorado = CO | Connecticut = CT | Delaware = DE | Florida = FL | Georgia = GA | Hawaii = HI | Idaho = ID | Illinois = IL | Indiana = IN | Iowa = IA | Kansas = KS | Kentucky = KY | Louisiana = LA | Maine = ME | Maryland = MD | Massachusetts = MA | Michigan = MI | Minnesota = MN | Mississippi = MS | Missouri = MO | Montana = MT | Nebraska = NE | Nevada = NV | New Hampshire = NH | New Jersey = NJ | New Mexico = NM | New York = NY | North Carolina = NC | North Dakota = ND | Ohio = OH | Oklahoma = OK | Oregon = OR | Pennsylvania = PA | Rhode Island = RI | South Carolina = SC | South Dakota = SD | Tennessee = TN | Texas = TX | Utah = UT | Vermont = VT | Virginia = VA | Washington = WA | West Virginia = WV | Wisconsin = WI | Wyoming = WY | no match}}
