I was looking around on the forum but found only one similar case in what’s called a Bug Graveyard. As far as I’m concerned, this Boogie is an undead.
Steps to reproduce
Well, I was using the iOS Shortcuts app and called a command as per the instructions in Obsidian Help:
obsidian://open?vault=my%20vault&file=my%20note
This opens the note my note in the vault my vault, assuming my note exists and the file is my note.md.
In my case with the very unpredictable variables Vaultname and Filename:
obsidian://open?vault=Vaultname&file=Filename.md
There are no issues with spaces in filenames, I sorted that out (the variables are correct, when you internally run the shortcut, you can see what the output is).
I reproduced in a Virgin Vault as well; see video at the bottom.
Expected result
Open the specified vault with the specified filename.
Actual result
Depending on where you are in the app – on the main screen with the vault list or in a vault with a file open in it – it either opens the vault but not the file itself (I tried with single-word filenames with no diacritics as well) or doesn’t even open the vault.
If you are within the right/current vault, opening a file works, but you would not call a shortcut to do that, because the QuickSwitcher is faster.
Environment
iOS 15.6 – Latest Obsidian 1.4.3 version
Additional information
What I found is that calling the shortcuts works reliably only if Obsidian is not among the open or recent apps. Hence I was looking around for a way to kill Obsidian but there is no Shortcut action for that (which calls for more drastic measures involving Linux shell).
I created a longish screencast which features the various scenarios:
