Currently there is no 'automatic' way of entering repeatable variables into text fields. For example a date at the top of each page, or an incremental page number, or a formula etc. Can Illustrator please add maybe a custom field onto the existing variables panel?

The main benefit would be for labelling or repeating document information across pages or in multiple places within a document.
Example. I Create a header page with a date "January 2020" and a version number 'Ver 23'. I would add these two values to a custom variable palette and can then create linked text fields at will across my document(s) without having to retype them every time. If I want to update the version or Date, I only have to type the new value once and ALL the linked text fields will automatically update.

Yes, this is similar to how pages and master data work in inDesign, but just a little of this feature would be useful here.

This is almost similar to having a library item, such as an external logo, but this would be stored internally with each document.

Even better when inputting text, you could press your custom entry on the dialog window and it would enter it into the text. I see the format of dates, and output to also be customizable.

Yes please. Need it so much

Yes please add an automatic page numbering feature!!!

Please add Page Numbering on artboards - GREAT IDEA!!!

Like Indesign:
- Page numbering (current, next, previous)

Extra:
- Artboard name, size etc.

Variable, editable, movable and positionable, save always upon save, date time, user, file path, etc, will be great future...

Variable text character for Artboard number would be amazing!

We have to manually update and change artboard numbers for presentations all the time, so this would save us TONS of time.

You've got spell-check, text support, multi-page PDF support, type-wrap, numbered layers & artboards and character/paragraph styles, etc- so on why not?! It's a basic function that can be almost achieved adequately with a simple javaScript.

yes!!!!!

The first commenter in this thread obviously never had to deal with growing documentation in artboards, where introducing a new one in-between, requires renumbering all others... A must have!

It would be best to know which artboard is what when printing by "range", especially if you have multiple artboards in a project.

I agree with this post!

Yes please.

Use Indesign. 25 years of using AI an I personally have never needed that.. Not that its not ever useful.. but they need to work on more important things... how hard is it to add a 1 to the corner of a document. Also, I bet there is a script out there somewhere.. might be a good idea to look.
here is one link I found. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2395987

Please add "Insert Page Number" Feature on multiple artboards. Because we need it so much. Thank you.

Have you tried the VariableImporter.jsx script?
https://github.com/Silly-V/Adobe-Illustrator/blob/master/Variable%20Importer/VariableImporter.jsx

It would be really helpful to have an option in Illustrator which can automatically fill custom variable fields like date, file name, etc.

I am working in print industry for almost 10 years and our primary software is AI, with adding the above option, it will help designers to save lot of time.

Appreciate your consideration for the above idea.

Please implement the ability to convert characters into current page numbers, identical to the InDesign feature. This would save extensive time and effort when creating documents in Illustrator, instead of manually doing this.