need create canvas from the template. about templater HOT 8 CLOSED

Or a separate plugin that can edit the canvas JSON. I have some ideas on how to implement that.

I'm really just asking questions around how canvas templates should work before anyone actually starts working on it.

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Please make this possible! thanks

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Were you thinking of a new Templater API like tp.file.create_canvas(...)? Or using a canvas file as a template? Both? Something else?

There's not a lot of details here so I have no idea what you're looking for.

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ey @Zachatoo, thanks!
I watn to create new canvas from a template. I have created the template.canvas in the template folder, but when creating a new canvas from the template... It doen'st create a new .canvas but a .md file.

It would be awesome to create new canvas from a template. For example, I use projects, brainstorms, ideas.. from canvas.

Steps:

1. create a .canvas template
   

2. select new note from template:
   

3. then the result is like this:

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Would creating a canvas from a template create copies of any notes in the canvas, or just reference them?

Right now Templater commands only work in an editor, they'd need to be updated to work in a canvas text card to make this truly useful.

The ordering of command execution may be confusing, we'd probably want to go from top to bottom in the JSON structure, but that'd be annoying to figure out in the canvas UI. Would be easier if there was a "source" mode for canvas where you can edit the JSON directly, but that would be out of scope for Templater to add.

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I guess that obsidian needs to do some improvements to canvas to extend these functionalities?

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Well, I think I accidentally got it working, so that's fun! I did a very basic test using a .canvas file as a template file and it appeared to work for me. Can I get someone else to verify that they can use .canvas files as templates in Templater 2.2.0+?

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I'm going to assume this is working for others, and that the feature I added is the feature the OP was looking for. Marking as resolved. Feel free to make a few feature request if you're looking for something else.

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