Append-to-note url scheme command

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Hi, I’m trying to use append-to-note in an action in Drafts on iOS to quickly append content to a note in Agenda for upcoming meetings. My Drafts action looks up the date of the next meeting in the calendar and then attempts to append to a note in Agenda with a title based on that date, e.g. “Staff Meeting 2019-01-15"

As best as I can work out, the append-to-note url scheme command fails silently if a note with the specified title doesn’t already exist; i.e. it doesn’t do anything but it returns x-success. There also doesn’t seem to be a way to test if the note exists as open-note also returns x-success whether the note exists or not.

Ideally, it would be great if the append command would fall back to creating a new note if a note by that title doesn’t exist; but alternatively I think it should return x-error if the append fails for any reason.

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We will investigate this. Thanks for reporting it!

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Please note that version 4.1 and later should fix the error problem, and also provide return parameters to x-success that are useful, such as the note identifier of a newly created note.

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Perfect, thanks!

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@jon.rumble would you please share your draft action? I am trying to do the same thing with little success

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Hey @colingoldmail , no worries, my drafts action consists of a single Script step, I’ll paste the code in below. This works perfectly for me but just looking through the code again I note that there are all sorts of potential failure cases that I never bothered to account for!

let cal = Calendar.find("Staff team");

if (cal) {

	var future = new Date();
	future.setDate(future.getDate() + 30);

	let events = cal.events(new Date(), future);

	for (var event of events) {
		if (event.title.includes("Staff Meeting")){
			break;
		}
	}
	
	meetingDate = event.startDate.toISOString().split('T')[0];
	draft.setTemplateTag('meetingDate', meetingDate);
	console.log(meetingDate);
}


let appendURL = 'agenda://x-callback-url/append-to-note';

var appendCallBack = CallbackURL.create();
appendCallBack.baseURL = appendURL;
appendCallBack.addParameter('title','Staff Meeting ' + meetingDate);
appendCallBack.addParameter('project-title','Prov City Staff');
appendCallBack.addParameter('text', draft.content);

var appendSuccess = appendCallBack.open();

if (appendSuccess){
	console.log("Agenda item appended.");
} else {
	//Try creating note if append didn't work
	if (appendCallBack.callbackResponse.reason == 'Target was not found'){
	
		let createURL = 'agenda://x-callback-url/create-note';
		var createCallBack = CallbackURL.create();
		createCallBack.baseURL = createURL;
		createCallBack.addParameter('title', 'Staff Meeting ' + meetingDate);
		createCallBack.addParameter('project-title','Prov City Staff');
		createCallBack.addParameter('text', draft.content);
		createCallBack.addParameter('on-the-agenda', 'true');
		createCallBack.addParameter('date', meetingDate);
	
		var createSuccess = createCallBack.open();

		if (createSuccess){
			console.log("Agenda item created.");
		} else {
			//If create fails, produce error
			context.fail();
			console.log(appendCallBack.callbackResponse.status);
			console.log(JSON.stringify(appendCallBack.callbackResponse));		
		}
	} else {
	//If append failure was for another reason, produce error
		context.fail();
		console.log(appendCallBack.callbackResponse.status);
		console.log(JSON.stringify(appendCallBack.callbackResponse));
	}
}
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