Action
New Draft with Template
UPDATES
about 1 year ago
Update to remove deprecated property.
about 1 year ago
Update to remove deprecated property.
over 1 year ago
Support “Omit First Line in New Draft” option, to make it easier to give templates a friendly name in the first that is helpful for selecting templates, but should not appear in the new drafts created with this action.
Prompt to select from a list of existing drafts with the tag “template” assigned, then create a new draft with the content of that template.
To create templates available in this action, simply type your template in a draft, and assigned the tag “template” to that draft. It can be in the archive or inbox. The template can contain Drafts tags to insert time stamps or other dynamic data in the template. Also, any tags other than “template” assigned to the template draft will be assigned to the new draft automatically.
If the template contains the string <|>, the <|> will be removed, and the initial cursor position in the new draft placed at that location.
When run, if “Omit First Line in New Draft” selected in the prompt, the first line will be removed from the template. This allows you to use a friendly name for the template as the first line of the template without having it included in the new drafts created.
Note: This action used functionality which requires a Pro subscription.
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script
// defaults let omitFirstLineDefault = false; // select from a list of drafts tagged "template" and create new draft based on selection. let f = () => { // create temp workspace to query drafts let workspace = Workspace.create(); if (!workspace) { return false; } workspace.tagFilter = "template"; workspace.setAllSort("name", false, true); // get list of drafts in workspace let drafts = workspace.query("all"); // check if we found any valid templates if (drafts.length == 0) { alert("No templates found. To make templates available to this action, create a draft with the template content and assign it the tag \"template\"."); return false; } // prompt to select let p = Prompt.create(); p.title = "New Draft with Template"; p.message = "Select a template. A new draft will be created based the template selected."; p.addSwitch("omitTitle", "Omit First Line in New Draft", omitFirstLineDefault); let ix = 0 for (let d of drafts) { p.addButton(d.displayTitle, ix); ix++; } if (!p.show()) { return false; } // get the selected template draft let selectedIndex = p.buttonPressed; let template = drafts[selectedIndex]; let content = template.content; let omitTitle = p.fieldValues["omitTitle"]; if (omitTitle) { let lines = content.split('\n'); if (lines.length > 0) { lines.shift(); content = lines.join('\n').replace(/^\s+/,""); } } // create new draft and assign content/tags/syntax let d = Draft.create(); for (let tag of template.tags) { if (tag != "template") { d.addTag(tag); } } d.syntax = template.syntax; d.content = d.processTemplate(content); d.update(); // load new draft editor.load(d); editor.activate(); // look for <|> to set cursor location let loc = d.content.search("<|>"); if (loc != -1) { editor.setText(editor.getText().replace("<|>", "")); editor.setSelectedRange(loc, 0); } return true; } if (app.isPro) { if (!f()) { context.cancel(); } } else { alert("Drafts Pro features required to use this action.") }
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