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What I’m trying to do
I am trying to have modal forms in my template run immediately after I call the Media DB template. This way I can easily and quickly put in information like was this recommended to me, what is the priority, is this one of my fav movies, what do I rate it, etc.
Things I have tried
I had created a modal form for the fields I want and set up my template like this
<% "---" %>
<%*
const modalForm = app.plugins.plugins.modalforms.api;
const result = await modalForm.openForm("NewMovie");
tR += result.asFrontmatterString();
-%>
<% "---" %>
{{plot}}
{{ url }}
However, when I run it using a Quick Add Macro as Media DB uses the template I designated I get the follow
---
type: movie
year: 2023
dataSource: OMDbAPI
url: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14849194/
id: tt14849194
director:
- Alexander Payne
duration: 133 min
onlineRating: 7.9
actors:
- Paul Giamatti
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph
- Dominic Sessa
image: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOWY3MjUzZTctOTI5ZC00MDA5LTk4ZTMtZWJjNjRmMzE4ZmI2XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_SX300.jpg
---
---
obsidianUIMode: preview
genres:
- Comedy
- Drama
- Seasonal
status: To Watch
favourite: false
priority: 🟠 Medium
recommended: false
---
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Viet...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14849194/
As you can see the modal form data did not end up in the frontmatter of the file. Does anyone know how to solve this?