Do backend scripts work?

[nickpagz]

Hey!
New to TrilliumNext Notes and this looks exactly like the tool I need. However, I'm running into issues trying to get backend scripts to do anything. For context, I installed from the releases page to my M4 MBP. There's no Docker container or anything like that.
Anyways, I'm trying to create a script to combine and format several notes, but nothing happens when I run the script. I see a "Note executed" message, but there's no output. I even tried a few simplified scripts - like just duplicating a note:

module.exports = async ({ triliumScriptApi }) => {
    const {
        getNote,
        createNote,
        setNoteContent
    } = triliumScriptApi;

    const sourceNoteId = "Fh5Q2oLkKZ37";
    const targetParentNoteId = "XwPzPkpZ8tR6";

    const sourceNote = await getNote(sourceNoteId);

    // Create new note with same title/content
    const newNote = await createNote({
        parentNoteId: targetParentNoteId,
        title: `[COPY] ${sourceNote.title}`,
        type: sourceNote.type || "text"
    });

    await setNoteContent(newNote.noteId, sourceNote.content || "");
};

... but again, nothing happens. What am I missing?

[eliandoran]

Hi,

module.exports = async ({ triliumScriptApi }) => {
    const {
        getNote,
        createNote,
        setNoteContent
    } = triliumScriptApi;  

Where did you get this syntax? Did you use an LLM to help you write the script?
Either way, this is incorrect due to two reasons:

• module.exports is generally used only for widgets and not backend scripts.
• There is no triliumScriptApi. The API resides within api and it's best to simply call api.foo.

In addition:

• Since you are using await it means that we need an async function. But you also need to call the function in order to ensure it does something (otherwise it's just an expression).
• createNote is a deprecated API and relatively harder to use. Prefer createTextNote for your particular use case.
• Accesing content does not work. It needs to be getContent().

A working script would look like this:

async function main() {
  
    const sourceNoteId = "Fh5Q2oLkKZ37";
    const targetParentNoteId = "XwPzPkpZ8tR6";

    const sourceNote = await api.getNote(sourceNoteId);
    await api.createTextNote(targetParentNoteId, `[COPY] ${sourceNote.title}`, sourceNote.getContent());
}

main();

[nickpagz]

Where did you get this syntax? Did you use an LLM to help you write the script?

LOL, yes! 🤦
Having said that, there's not many samples online to go on.

Either way, thank you for the quick response! This makes more sense now and should be enough to get me started on what I'm trying to achieve.