Can Templater compose multiple templates?

[holroy]

After one template has been inserted, you’ve already got a file, and can’t treat as a new file anymore. This means that if you want to use another template on that file, you’ll need to use app.fileManager.processFrontMatter() to change the property/frontmatter section of that file. One way of doing this is exemplified in the post below:

New Properties and templater prompts and commands?

@Schollert add this to any template to change a single field(s): <%* setTimeout(() => { app.fileManager.processFrontMatter(tp.config.target_file, frontmatter => { // Update or add as many fields as you want frontmatter['Some property'] = 'Some value' frontmatter['Another property'] = 'Some other value' // You can even remove properties if you want delete frontmatter['Unwanted property'] }) }, 200) // the reason for the timeout is to let the template complete first -%> …