Is there a way to grab a substring of Safe_Title in an action?

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Is there a way to grab a substring of Safe_TItle in an action?

I’m using [[safe_title]].md in a ‘save to files’ action which I run over a bunch of drafts. Occasionally it barfs because the draft is a large paragraph without title and the resulting filename is too long.

On a related note, is it possible to filter drafts where an action has failed within Drafts itself rather than using the log?

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There is no way to filter based on action log entries.

Also, no way to automatically truncate a tag value, but it’s pretty easily done in script. The below would give you a new [[short_safe_title]] tag to use in subsequent steps:

let maxLength = 30 // set to # of characters you want to limit to
// get the safe title value
let safe = drafts.processTemplate("[[safe_title]]")
if (safe.length > maxLength) {
    safe = safe.substring(0, maxLength)
}
draft.setTemplateTag("short_safe_title", safe)