Solved: invoking templater commands through advanced uri may causes slowdows

[imed-ghomari]

I'm using this templater script to update a counter metadata for some files

<%*
const {update, getPropertyValue, getFilesWithProperty} = app.plugins.plugins['metaedit'].api
const file = tp.file.find_tfile(tp.file.title) 
const files = await getFilesWithProperty('Revision')
if (files => files.basename.includes(tp.file.title)) {
    const counter = Number(await getPropertyValue('Revision',file)) + 1
    await update('Revision',counter,file)
}
_%>

It is invoked with advanced obsidian uri plugin like this open "obsidian://advanced-uri?vault=obsidian&commandid=templater-obsidian%253A%2523%2520obsidian%252Ftemplates%252Ftest.md"

I'm using the After switching the active pane event, but now, I'm noticing a slowdown when switching panes. I tested the script using templater only or though advanced uri plugin, and it's very fast.

Likewise, I tried executing the command manually with SC, and still the same delay. What's causing this in your opinion ?

[Taitava]

What operating system and shell are you using? If you don't know the shell, here are instructions how you can find it out.

If the shell happens to be PowerShell, then there is unfortunately always some delay (1 - 2 seconds) when executing a shell command. I don't know of a way to fix it. But if you use some other shell, then there might be some other reason.

[Taitava]

Ok, now to the idea I had earlier today: Can you use Templater to execute the same echo Hello shell command?

You can define it like this in Templater's settings:

And call it like this:

<%+ tp.user.echotest() %>

What I'm interested to find out, is that when you switch to preview mode, is there still some delay, or will the Hello result appear immediately? If it appears immediately, then I assume there's something wrong with SC, but if also this test has delay, then I assume the problem might be somewhere out of the scope of SC.

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I also have another thing in my mind that might work for you. It doesn't fix the actual problem, however.

I'm not very familiar with Templater, but now that I used it quickly, I noticed that it has a feature called Startup Templates, that you can use to hook into Obsidian events, such as the active-leaf-change Obsidian event that SC's After switching the active pane uses internally. Maybe you could hook into that event and have your Templater script run that way every time you switch between panes? Then you would not need SC nor Advanced Obsidian URI for this particular thing.

I'm don't have the best knowledge on how to make this work exactly, but if you need help, maybe you can ask in the Templater's Help discussion section, or in Obsidian's Discord server.

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That being said, we can still try to find out if there's anything to fix in SC to make the delay go away. 🙂

[imed-ghomari]

When trying <%+ tp.user.echotest() %>, there is still a delay, so it appears it's out of the scope of SC, sorry.

Thank you for the workaround.

[Taitava]

No problem!

Sad that we were not able to find out the exact reason for the delay 🙁. But I hope the workaround works for you! 🙂

[imed-ghomari]

Just wanted to let you know that there is no more lag now, and I guess it was the theme I used at the time that caused it.

[Taitava]

Okay, thanks for letting me know! 🙂 Strange how a theme can cause a lag like this. If I have understood correctly, Obsidian's themes consists of just CSS? But anyway, nice to know that you were able to solve this! 😎