How to access commands in command palette with registerEvent

[JeffQ]

I am trying to create a plugin that automatically insert the date (using the insert date command) upon file creation, but I’m not aware of any particular Obsidian API that will allow me to access the command palette directly. My current code looks like

this.registerEvent(when file is created , () => {
// a statement that triggers a particular command in the command palette
}

How can I achieve this by filling in the middle statement?

[holroy]

Ser answer below:

Triggering an Obsidian command from within an event callback

SOLVED: In line 11,776 of the QuickAdd plugin we see the ‘executeCommandById’ method: this.app.commands.executeCommandById('app:open-settings'); And this command does what one would expect… it runs the names command. Wow, what a crazy way to code! I cannot wait for the plug-in API to be released… (I didn’t find this method listed in any of the unofficial docs that I looked at)

[JeffQ]

It seems like I need the ID of the command I want to execute, what would be a way for me to find the ID of a command in the command palette? (the command I want to use does not come from a community plugin, so I won’t be able to access its source code

[holroy]

The list of commands has been in app.commands.commands, not sure if it’s changed recently, but if not the following answer should give you the commands:

How to get technical names for all commands

```dataviewjs dv.list(Object.keys(app.commands.commands)) ``` Requires Dataview to display this way, but you could type app.commands.commands in the console if you don’t have Dataview.

I’ve used this in some answers related to pulling out the hotkeys related to commands, but that shouldn’t be needed in your case (and I’m not sure whether the last revamp of the hotkeys section has changed any of the underlying structure rendering those script malfunctioning).

[JeffQ]

Unfortunately, it does seem like this.app.commands.commands has been deprecated (it doesn’t seem to work). Are there other ways possible?