Thread:Project:Support desk/Converting a template output into plain text/reply (5)

Oh I see, you want to have it subst all the way through. The only way to do that is do, hit save, then look for anything in {{'s, and add subst to those (So replace the {{#ifeq: {{NAMESPACE}}|User|User|Other}} text with {{subst:#ifeq: {{NAMESPACE}}|User|User|Other}}, hit save, and so on, until you're down to plain text

Having a keyword like substall: would make a lot of sense, but alas we currently don't. Some wiki's have an extension installed that gives special:ExpandTemplates, which is a special page where you can expand all templates, and from there you can paste it back in the wiki. (Wiki's that don't have that extension can use the API to do the same thing, but that's a bit complex)