Templater in links

[aldumil]

What I’m trying to do

Create dynamic links to other notes based on the file name of the note.

Things I have tried

This is what I’ve been trying to get to work:

[[The Lab/Weekly/<%+moment(tp.file.title).format("MMMM")%>/<%+moment(tp.file.title).subtract(1,'week').format("gggg-[W]ww")%>|<-- Previous Week]]

The individual pieces work outside of the link and render the correct string. I’m not sure why they don’t work inside the link.

I would appreciate any pointers!

I’m also not sure why, but they don’t seem to work without the + right after the %. Maybe that is related? With the + the code doesn’t render to anything and just displays as text.

[TheTao]

I tried it on my machine. I couldn’t get it to work WITH the + signs. If I used [[The Lab/Weekly/<%moment(tp.file.title).format("MMMM")%>/<%moment(tp.file.title).subtract(1,'week').format("gggg-[W]ww")%>|<-- Previous Week]] (note no plus signs), then I got

[[The Lab/Weekly/May/2024-W21|<-- Previous Week]]

in a note with a name “2024-05-28”. W21 is the correct week. Adding the plus gave NaN’s instead of strings for the values. I wonder if the “+” gets associated with the ‘<%’ and that screws things up.

Not sure what else to tell you.

[aldumil]

I have tried it that way as well, in fact I started that way and when it wasn’t working I went googling for help and I found someone that said adding +'s worked for them and it seemed to work for me…I’m not really sure what else to try? I’ve tried various symbols, spaces, no spaces, disabling/deleting Templater and Periodic Notes and then reinstalling, disabling, enabling Daily Notes and Templates core plugins…

[aldumil]

I found this post

Templater Example Template not working

There is more to be said on this subject, which might not be very clear from the documentation. Various ways to insert templates One way to trigger Templater is as you’ve discovered through applying/inserting the template when you create a file. However, you can also insert a template into any file open for editing, either through the command: Templater: Open Insert Template modal, where you select which template to insert, or through Template Hotkeys-commands. I’ve added a hotkey for my cus…

Which explains things really well. I got it figured out now.