Relative tag paths in indirect tags

I have a two tag folders called command and status. Status houses the ready state of the commands. As such, when referencing the ready state from the command tag, i need to reference the relative path [.]../../status/ORdy_[command]. If i was doing this in a udt, that would be fine, but i am trying to generalize this interface and reference it in my template. My template has a string reference to the command tag as an input. So ideally I'd replace the [.] with {1} that references my string path, but I've tried a few variations on that theme and none of the syntax seems to work.

I'm thinking alternatively, i could just manipulate the string to produce the parent parent folder, but i was wondering if there is a convenient way to do this with relative paths in an indirect tag.

Thank you!

You can’t use relative tag paths for this. So the indirect path must resolve to a full tag path.

Bindings in Ignition do not have the prerequisite information available to construct the full tag path from a relative path.

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