Alternate location for Templates for Folder Templates

[djdanner]

For Folder Templates, instead of specifying the location of a Folder's Template in a Templater Setting, could a Note named "Template.md" simply be placed in the Folder? Then any Note created in that Folder, or any of its Subfolders, would use the Template in that Folder.

If there were multiple Template.md files in a Folder Hierarchy, you would stop looking as soon as you found a Template when going-up the Parent Chain.

This could be done as an alternative to the existing method so that both methods are supported.

[Zachatoo]

Templater is so extensible, you can do this today!

Here's a Templater script you can use to accomplish this. Set this as your only folder template at the root folder (/).

<%*
// Search for "Template.md" note recursively, starting at the current folder and ending at the root folder
let folder;
let folderTemplate;
do {
  if (!folder) {
    folder = app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath(tp.file.folder(true));
  } else {
    folder = folder.parent;
  }
  folderTemplate = folder.children.find(x => x.name === "Template.md");
} while (!folderTemplate && folder.path !== "/")
// Apply folder template (if applicable)
if (folderTemplate) {
  tR += await tp.file.include(folderTemplate);
}
-%>

[djdanner]

I just found this video that says that I should be able to use XBOX Game Bar to record it:
https://youtu.be/pRSLYvqU-tM

[djdanner]

Hey Zach, thanks again for that video. It was a big help. My reply video is in 2 parts, because 1 file was too big.
Folder-Templates-PART-1.zip

[djdanner]

Part 2:
Folder-Templates-PART-2.zip

[Zachatoo]

Watched the videos and it seems like towards the end of the second video we got on the same page. You're right, because your only folder template was setup to trigger on the root (/), then Templater will always use that root template for every new note creation, which is this script we wrote to have this new behavior of looking for a _Template.md file up the tree.

I do want to make one thing clear. If, for example, you only had one folder template but it was setup on a different folder than the root, say the Folder-1 folder, then this script that we wrote would only take affect for files created in that folder or it's children folders. Files created in other folders that are children of the root or files created in the root folder itself would not be triggered by the folder template and therefore would not use our custom logic.

I'll make a post about this script (my variant and yours) to promote this idea. I have my own custom script that I use that I like that also modifies the default behavior of how folder templates work that I've promoted that a few people like, documented here. I'll do the same for this since I think this is another great way to manage templates (assuming you're okay with me posting your script alongside mine)!

[djdanner]

Great. Yeah, the way I'm using it is that I have an _Template file in several folders and then I have a Default _Template file at the Root. As I mentioned in the video, the only piece I was confused about was how Templater knew to go the Root to find the script when you were creating a Note in a subfolder.

Feel free to share any of this thread, and no need to credit me, but thanks for asking : ) Please send me a link if you do make a post for this topic, thx. And I'll check-out your other referenced post.

Thanks again for all your help!