Hi everyone,
I have a question about my template and how it interacts with the plugin called Callout Manager.
My GOAL for the template…
I want to integrate annotations from Zotero (plugin: Zotero Integration) as callouts and want all the annotations to be in callouts with a standard color except for those annotations that belong to the color category “Magenta” (it’s a category on the side of zotero). In these cases I want the callouts to take the color of the category they’re in (#e56eee).
This is the part of the template in question:
{% set citation = citationFormatter() -%}
{% for annotation in annotations -%}
{% if annotation.type == “note” %}
{{annotation.comment}}
{% endif -%}{% if annotation.type == “highlight” %}
[!cite{% if annotation.colorCategory == “Magenta” %}|{{annotation.color}}{% endif -%}]- {{citekey}}, {{annotation.pageLabel}}
{% if annotation.comment %}{{annotation.comment}}{%- endif %}
{%- if annotation.annotatedText -%}„{{annotation.annotatedText}}“({{annotation.pageLabel}}){% endif %}{% if annotation.imageRelativePath -%}![[{{annotation.imageRelativePath}}]]{%- endif %}
{%- endif %}
{% endfor %}
The line that’s of relevance here - at least that’s what I assume - is this one:
[!cite{% if annotation.colorCategory == “Magenta” %}|{{annotation.color}}{% endif -%}]
The problem I’m facing…
Whenever I prompt a transfer from Zotero to Obsidian, the output seems to be a success, for the callout-lines that are being generated, differ accordingly.
A standard highlight reads as follows:
[!cite]- Livingston2018, 107
A special (magenta) highlight reads as follows:
[!cite|#e56eee]- Livingston2018, 108
But the color Obsidian chooses for the callout to be displayed in, is the same for both cases. This leads me to believe that the issue lies in a conflict between what the plugin Callout Manager does to Obsidian and what I try to do with Obsidian by giving the callout this “pipe-information” (…|#e56eee). Maybe it has something to do with prioritization, but I don’t really know.
A solution to the problem…
Instead of telling Obsidian to put out a - what I call - “pipe-information” about the color code of the annotation, I could just tell Obsidian to print out a different type of callout and have this type be adequately customized via Callout Manager.
[!cite{% if annotation.colorCategory == “Magenta” %}-alt{% endif -%}]-
In this case shown above I have a callout-type called “cite-alt” (customized with the help of Callout Manager) and if the annotation I want to integrate into Obsidian is of the colorCategory “Magenta”, my template just prints out:
[!cite-alt]- Livingston2018, 108
and this would then display the callout in the color I want these annotations to be shown.
My question to you all…
That is a solution I am actually satisfied with, but still: I want to know what the source of my problem actually is and what I would need to do in order to fix the issue under the conditions that (1) Callout Manager as a plugin stays enabled and that (2) the color change should happen through additional information behind the pipe symbol (|).
I hope you could follow this depiction of my problem and am very thankful for your answers.
Have a great day! 
