Custom Template for Date about templater HOT 8 CLOSED

@dummifiedme @TSSlade: There are some known issues with powershell and Templater that I haven't been able to resolve for now.
However if you want to get today's date minus a day offset, you can with the new internal template {{tp_date}}. With this, you're now able to specify a date offset as argument like so: {{tp_date:offset="-3"}}. You can also specify the date format with the f argument, i.e. {{tp_date:offset="-3",f="yyyy-MM-dd"}}.
Update Templater to 0.5.7 to use it !
I'm closing this because it's similar to #9 or #15 for powershell problems, but don't hesitate to re-open this if you have any problem using {{tp_date}}

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what error is obsidian throwing? i just tried it on mine (not using powershell, macos terminal) but it didn't have any issues creating a note with the same general link format that you posted above

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The Obsidian error is like a notification, I am not able to read it. In the editor though, it just doesn't convert to the expected date but stays just as the template {{}}.

Can you share the Templater command that you used?

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mines going to be different because I'm using the OSX date command but here it is: date -j +"[[%Y-%m-%d_%a|%Y-%m-%d]]"

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I can affirm a similar experience to @dummifiedme's. My console (Ctrl+Shift+I) provides the following:

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
(unknown) Error with the template n° 2:
 Error: Command failed: powershell echo "[[$((Get-Date).AddDays(-7) | Get-Date -UFormat "%Y-%m-%d")]]"

    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:312)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:310)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:286)

If I remove the powershell prefix from the custom template command and just lead with echo, I get the following result (in context):

Previous meeting in series: [[{{"Get-Date -UFormat "%Y-%m-%d")"}}_05h00]]

That is not an error, but it's also not the desired outcome. Any chance the plugin is having a hard time launching/communicating with the Powershell executable?

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Further follow-up: using the custom templates in the README:

a.k.a.

powershell (Get-Date -UFormat '%Y-%m-%d' (Get-Date).addDays(-1))

...added like so:

...these are the results:

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As far as I remember, I was able to get correct output when using a simple format, the problem arose when I decided to use square brackets and vertical bar in there.

But there must be something missing in the templater for sure.

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Confirmed that even with neither square brackets nor a pipe present, I experience the same failure mode:

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