Create Template Tag to be used in a Template opened with `New Draft with Template`Action

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Custom template tags are specific to a draft. By calling draft.setTemplateTag you are setting a tag value for the current draft.

The “New Draft with Template” action creates a new draft, held in the d var in the script, and runs it through the template engine. It is a different draft, so does not contain the new tag value you assigned to draft - hopefully that makes some sense.

Several ways to solve this problem. Assuming you have modified the “New Draft with Template” action to contain an additional script above (I guess in a separate step?), you could change the end of that script as follows:

let temperature = "No temperature retrieved"; // default value
if (data) {
    temperature = data.main.temp + '°C'; // remove `let`!
    alert(temperature);
}

Then in the “new draft” script from the template action, look for this section and add the indicated line:

    let d = Draft.create();
    for (let tag of template.tags) {
        if (tag != "template") {
            d.addTag(tag);
        }
    }
    // BEGIN ADD
    d.setTemplateTag("temperature", temperature);
    // END ADD
    d.content = d.processTemplate(template.content);
    d.update();

That will set the template value on the newly created draft and it will work.