insertMissingFields seems to clear content when used with Templater + Periodic Note + Trigger

[stecydube]

I have my vault setup with Templater, MetadataMenu + PeriodicNotes

Setup templater to be called when a note gets created in my daily note folder, using my daily note template. Setup MetadataMenu with classes.

In the daily note template I put in the fileClass property with my daily note class.

At this point, all is well. Templates gets used when I create a daily note.

Now I want to insert the missing fields into the note so I tried to call the API from within the template:

<%*
await app.plugins.plugins["metadata-menu"].api.insertMissingFields(tp.file.path(true), 1)
-%>

When I create a daily note I see that the template content gets inserted but it all vanishes.

Using fileFields api call works and does not clear the note content as to make sure I call the api correctly 😉

Using any other templater commands works, it's only insertMissingFields that clears the note.

Not sure what I am doing wrong...

[mdelobelle]

can you test with the new beta version ? https://github.com/mdelobelle/metadatamenu/releases/tag/0.6.0-beta-8 I think that you have experienced conflicting files updates: 1 from templater and 1 from metadata menu. The new version has a different indexing/modifying files lifecycle, maybe this will fix you use case

[spiv]

@mdelobelle still happening for me and I am using Metadata Menu 0.8.5 and Templater 2.2.3. I am using "filesPaths" to assign fileClass.

Thanks for any help!

[ccc-dvansevenant]

I ran in to this issue as well.

Poked around the Obsidian Discord and found this command:

<%* tp.hooks.on_all_templates_executed(() => {MetadataMenu.api.insertMissingFields(tp.file.path(true), 1); }); -%>

Which at least keeps the results of the insertMissingFields, but they are inserted inline, not in the frontmatter/properties, which is where I personally want them.

Obsidian 1.6, Templater 2.3.3, Metadata Menu 0.8.7