Action
New Draft with Template
UPDATES
over 1 year ago
Explicitly clear workspace queryString to avoid conflicting value in default workspace.
over 1 year ago
Explicitly clear workspace queryString to avoid conflicting value in default workspace.
almost 2 years ago
Added support for <|field> style placeholders to select initial cursor position.
almost 3 years ago
Update to remove deprecated property.
over 3 years 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.
NOTE: For more details on using this action, see the related tip document in the Forum
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 and placeholders in the format <|fieldname> the first placeholder will be selected and ready to edit after creation.
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.
Tested
Trusted memberSteps
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script
// defaults const omitFirstLineDefault = true const placeholderRe = /<\|.*?>/gm // 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.queryString = "" 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 placeholder <|> to set cursor location let match = placeholderRe.exec(d.content) if (match) { editor.setSelectedRange(match["index"], match[0].length) } return true; } if (app.isPro) { if (!f()) { context.cancel(); } } else { alert("Drafts Pro features required to use this action.") }
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After Success Default Notification Error Log Level Error
