Templater aborting, tp.user.header is not a function?

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I want to create a new note from my imported notes in Zotero using a script with Templater

I followed the steps in this 01 Notetaking for Historians - Doing History with Zotero and Obsidian - Obsidian Publish walkthrough to set up Templater in Obsidian with Zotero files. The console says tp.user.header is not a function. What do I need to fix?

Things I have tried

Emailed the original author of the walkthrough.

I can get the Zotero annotations into Obsidian without any issues, but the script breaks when I try to create a new note with my highlighted annotations.

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The tp.user.header is a user defined function related to Templater, and you need to follow the instructions far down on the page you linked to:

There it explains how to set up this user defined function for Templater. Follow that setup, and hopefully you’ll get everything going smoothly.

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I’m having the same trouble. In the Obsidian Developer Console I get

Templater Error: Template parsing error, aborting. tp.user.header is not a function.

I’ve made the requisite header.js user-defined script and pointed templater to the relevant folder containing it. Problem is, when I hit the Refresh button in Templater’s settings pane I get “Detected 0 User Script(s)”.

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I fixed it! I had made the header.js file in Obsidian, and Obsidian added .md to the filename (by default) so that it was in the scripts folder as header.js.md. I quit Obsidian, deleted the “.md” from the filename in the Finder(macOS), rebooted, and it worked. In the preference pane it now reads:

Detected 1 User Script(s): tp.user.header

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Thank you for the reply. I believe I followed the instructions correctly, but I will double check. JBTaylor124 suggested something that I will try.

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Thank you for troubleshooting! I’ll try the same thing on my PC.

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In obsidian, you can right click on the script file and select “open in system explorer” then delete the .md extension. It works!

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