Splitting a note, preserving the date created info

Scripting
1

I have a script that splits files at a delimiter (that I believe I pulled from this post). I am trying to modify it so that the newly created drafts keep the same createdAt value as the original. Here is what I have…

// Split at specified delimiter

var delim = "\n## ";
var tags = Draft.tags;
var date = Draft.createdAt;

var text = draft.content;
var chunks = text.split(delim);
for (var chunk of chunks) {
	var d = Draft.create();
	d.content = chunk.trim();
	d.createdAt = date;
	for (let tag of draft.tags) {
  		d.addTag(tag);
	}	
	d.update();
}

However, the date isn’t updated in the new draft. Would anyone be willing to give me a hint as to what I’m doing wrong here? Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer.

2

It is not possible to set the creation date via script. That is maintained by the app. The date properties on the Draft object are readonly.

I just checked and I see the docs site does not properly reflect that, and I’ll make a note to update that to avoid confusion.

3

Thanks for the quick reply. Is there any way to append the date created to the end of the draft’s text?

4

Nevermind. I figured it out thanks to your excellent documentation. For those who are interested, here is what I am using (it places a line at the end of each newly created document with the date and time the original was created like this: created: 2020-04-24 06:36):

// Split at specified delimiter

var delim = "\n## ";
var tags = Draft.tags;
var date = draft.processTemplate("created: [[created|%Y-%m-%d %H:%M]]");

var text = draft.content;
var chunks = text.split(delim);
for (var chunk of chunks) {
	var d = Draft.create();
	d.content = chunk.trim();
	d.content = d.content + "\n" + date;
	for (let tag of draft.tags) {
  		d.addTag(tag);
	}	
	d.update();
}
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This should work:

// Split at specified delimiter

let delim = "\n## ";
let date = draft.createdAt.toString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm");

// Make dateLine in <!-- HTML --> comment block
let dateLine = `\n\n<!-- Created: ${date} -->`

// alert(date);

let text = draft.content;
let chunks = text.split(delim);
let h2 = ''

for (const chunk of chunks) {
	let d = Draft.create();
	d.content = h2 + chunk.trim() + dateLine;
	// add stripped delim/heading tag (strip '\n') to all but first chunk:
	h2 = delim.slice(1);
	
	for (let tag of draft.tags) {
  		d.addTag(tag);
	}
	
	d.languageGrammar = draft.languageGrammar;
	d.update();
}

Oh sorry, just discovered you already had solved it. :sunglasses:
Anyway, slightly different code :nerd_face:

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