Help with form settings and controlling output

[sicahjes]

I have just started playing with this, and it is great! However, I'm having trouble figuring out two issues and am hoping the community can help:

Form Settings
This form is a habit tracker / mood tracker. The form has a date field called 'Date' that tracks the habits/mood of a particular day (can change to habit_date etc if the issue is my naming convention). I would like it so that when the form modal is triggered, it had an empty field for the date, and I was hoping to make it default to the current date that I can then override if needed (the goal is to input the day off, but I will inevitably need to do catchup entries).

It would be great if instead of dd/mm/yyyy it had the current date, e.g. 12/01/2025

Controlling 'result.getValue' output
Below is my very basic template that draws from the form. However, for the life of me I cannot figure out how to properly render the result.getValue output. I've looked at the documentation and I can see a couple of examples, but not what I need.

The two elements I'm trying to control are:

• Date: This is the date of an event, not a system date. I'd like to control the output here so that it is different to the properties output (which is YYYY-MM-DD and works for my needs, this needs to stay the same). I understand the general formatting language for dates, I just can't get it to apply to the get value field.
• habit_status: This is a single select field. It renders as a value in the front matter, which is what I need there (as it talks to a heat map in another note). However, in this section I would like the to display the corresponding label instead of the value (e.g. if it were a an exercise minutes tracker and '30 minutes' had a value of 1, in the properties it would be recorded as 1, but here it would say '30 minutes'.

---
created: 2025-01-01
habit-class: habit
tracking: true
<%* const modalForm = app.plugins.plugins.modalforms.api; 
const result = await modalForm.openForm('Habit'); 
tR += result.asFrontmatterString(); -%>
---

<%* let filename = tp.file.title
if ( filename.startsWith("Untitled") ) {
  await tp.file.rename(result.get("Date"));
  await tp.file.move("Wellbeing/Habit/" + result.get("Date"));
} 
-%>


**Date**: <% result.getValue('Date') %>
**Status**: <% result.getValue('habit_status') %>
**Comments**: <% result.getValue('Comments') %>

[danielo515]

Can you share your form too? Export it to JSON in the form manaager and paste it here just like you did with your template

[danielo515]

I just run your template using the example form like this:

---
created: 2025-01-01
habit-class: habit
tracking: true
<%*  
const result = await MF.exampleForm(); 
tR += result.asFrontmatterString();
-%>
---

<%* let filename = tp.file.title
if ( filename.startsWith("Untitled") ) {
  await tp.file.rename(result.get("dateOfBirth"));
  await tp.file.move("Wellbeing/Habit/" + result.get("Date"));
} 
-%>


**Date**: <% result.getValue('dateOfBirth') %>
**Status**: <% result.getValue('habit_status') %>
**Comments**: <% result.getValue('Comments') %>

And this is what I get as outcome:

---
created: 2025-01-01
habit-class: habit
tracking: true
name: bor
age: 22
dateOfBirth: 2025-12-31
is_family: false
best_fried: 
favorite_meal: pizza
profile_picture: 
pdf: 
---



**Date**: 2025-12-31
**Status**: 
**Comments**: 

Doesn't that follow the format you want?

[danielo515]

Ok, I just saw you want a different format for the Date in the markdown, that is easy to achieve using the mapping function that get method accepts. Try something like this, changing the format to whatever you want:

**Date**: <% result.get('Date', x => moment(x).format('dd MM yy')) %>

For the status, assuming you are using a select field you can just pick the label rather than the value, again using the raw result.get that gives you access to the whole value
Ok that is a limitation, you can not access the label, just the selected value. You may need to keep a separate mapping to get the label you desire. Let me know if you want an example of a potential solution.

[sicahjes]

Thanks for the help! Unfortunately, I just went in to get the information I needed but I accidentally deleted the form and can't recover it :(

I need to recreate the form (I had added more fields, conditional logic etc.) and then start playing again. When I do, do you know if a conditional query will work in a template, or will this run into the same frontmatter limitations as templater (i.e. the template hasn't been created yet, so the field ends up blank)?

[danielo515]

What do you mean by a conditional query? a DV query? or something else?

[sicahjes]

I was thinking a DV if statement that returned the label depending on the value of the of the habit status.

[danielo515]

DV only works with notes that already exists. You can not use it in a template execution context.
What are you trying to achieve with that? Maybe I can help you with the template code