makeNote.md

Templater User Scripts
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🚀 makeNote

This script, inserts or creates a new note from a given template in a specified location without prompting the user for input. It also handles incorrect template configuration, cancellation events, and other errors. The script is intended to be used as a user script for the Templater plugin and can be used useful when the template variables are known in advance and can be specified in the configuration object as plain strings. The following provides an overview of the topics covered on this page:

• Usage
• Arguments
  • tp
  • config
  • ext
• Value
• Examples

Usage

tp.user.makeNote(tp, config, ext)

Arguments

The following arguments, in the presented order, are required:

tp

The Templater object passed from the context of a template.

config

The configuration object that holds relevant note creation and template variables. Each template variable holds a single configuration object, that is composed of an arbitrary number of configuration elements objects. See the documentation for the prompt user script for how the configuration object should be structured.

If Templater is invoked via the command Templater: Create new note from template, the configuration object must contain at least two elements named exactly path and filename as indicated below.

// The configuration object.
let config = {
    // The `path` element indicating where to create the note.
    path: {
        prompt: true,
        display: "Please indicate the path.",
        value: "Folder"
    },

    // The `filename` element indicating how to name the note.
    filename: {
        prompt: true,
        display: "Please indicate the file name.",
        value: "A new note"
    }
}

There are no restrictions for the number and name of configuration elements when the invocation occurs via Templater: Open insert Template modal.

Note. The configuration object is not processed (e.g., check, and process properties have no effect). Such functionality requires prompting. This script is mostly intended for chases when additional steps need to be performed between the prompting process and the actual note creation. To this end, in most of the cases this scrip will be used after the prompt user script has been executed. When no additional steps are required, the makeNoteWithPrompting user script should be used instead.

ext

The extension of the resulting note file. This argument is optional and set to .md by default.

Value

The makeNote function call returns a promise that fulfills to the TFile representation of the newly created note when Templater is invoked via the command Templater: Create new note from template, or undefined when Templater is invoked via the command Templater: Open insert Template modal. In case of checking and processing errors, or user cancelling the prompting process, the promise will fulfill to undefined.

Examples

This script functions similarly to makeNoteWithPrompting, but it does not prompt the user for input. Please check the documentation for the makeNoteWithPrompting user script for more detailed examples.