Automatic Callouts

[jmantn]

I followed a guide at: https://obsidian.rocks/improving-callouts-with-obsidian-modal/

Using the guide I created my first Modal form and used QuickAdd for the first time. No issues with my results but then I kicked it up 10 notches and created an Infobox callout based on the ITS Theme’s S-Callouts.css and configured a form for most of the options and again it works well.

My question however is the user input. I am using text area for user input as I want to be able to copy and paste a lot of data but I’d like for there to be a way to add “>” to each new line.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for modifying input if it’s possible?

Love Modal Forms by the way, it’s honestly one of my top 10 plugins that really make Obsidian stand out.

[danielo515]

When do you want those > to be added? Once you submit the form?

[jmantn]

yes, that was the idea anyway, it's not a huge, thing as I could come up with a PopClip extension that could do that but figured it was just something I wasn't figuring out.

My goal was to take regular text put it in one of my callout forms and it would create a callout with everything formatted, that was the goal. It's an odd use case but it's one that the article linked in the first post led me to 😄

[danielo515]

That should be relatively easy. Do you have a form in JSON that you can share so I can make tests with the same exact one you're doing?
Then, I will try to contact the blog post author because I think this flow can be simplified

[danielo515]

So, here is a potential solution without using quick add, but instead using the form template feature. If you are not familiar with this feature, take a look at the docs here:

https://danielorodriguez.com/obsidian-modal-form/templates/

You can use this template in the template section of the form:

>[!info] {{title}}
<% {{text|stringify}}.split('\n').map( x => `> ${x}`).join('\n') %>

Then, you can trigger the insertion of the form template via the command pallete, and it will present your form, like this:

Which will insert this text:

>[!info] Title
> Multi
> Line
> Body

Let me know if you have any doubts

[jmantn]

That's what I was looking for, thank you so much! I didn't know about that and it opens up the door for me to other possible uses as well! Thank you!!!

[danielo515]

What part exactly opens the door to possible uses? The capacity of using templater in the template, the fact the form can have a template? I'm curious.
If this was the answer to your question, do you mind marking it as answer?
Glad it helped. Don't hesitate to get back with your usages if you feel like doing it

[danielo515]

Can you flag the topic as solved?