Creating template with Current Page and Today, not working --

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I have a template page and have created a template for my JIRA projects, fairly simple. So like on my daily journal if I reference a JIRA item I just put the JIRA ID like [[ABC_123]] to create the page, then I'll go into the page and add the JIRA Project Template which is below:

But when I create the page and add the template using /template none of the variables are being applied:

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Any ideas on why? Seems fairly strait forward from the tutorials I'm looking at, but this for the life of me isn't working.

Thanks --