New Task Template - Intended for use with the 'Projects' plugin

[AlePPisa]

This is a template for creating a new task, intended for use along the Projects plugin. Once setup it will prompt the user for a status, sprint points, priority, and a list of tags given as a comma separated list. Note that the Projects plugin is not really necessary, but all of the data is generated as front matter to seamlessly work with it.

Here is the template, and below it you can find a quick rundown on how to set it up, as well as an important note on tags:

---
creation_date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss") %>
status: <% await tp.system.suggester(["Backlog", "To-Do", "In-Progress", "Done", "Blocking"],["Backlog", "To-Do", "In-Progress", "Done", "Blocking"], false, "Task Status") %>
due: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD") %>
points: <% await tp.system.suggester([1,2,3,5,8], [1,2,3,5,8], false, "Task Points") %>
priority: <% await tp.system.suggester(["N/A", "Low", "Medium", "High"], ["N/A", "Low", "Medium", "High"], false, "Task Priority") %>
tags:
<%* 
function convertToDashedLowerCase(input) { 
	if (typeof input !== "string" || input.trim() === "") { 
	  return []; 
	} 
	
	const words = input.split(",").map(word => { 
		return word.trim().replace(/\s*,\s*/g, ",").replace(/\s+/g, "-").toLowerCase();
	}); 
	const result = words.map(word => `  - ${word}`).join("\n");
	return result;
} 

words = await tp.system.prompt("Enter a list of tags separated by a coma");
tR += convertToDashedLowerCase(words);
%>
---

Pre-Setup & Settings

• Make sure you have the Projects plugin installed and enabled, along with Templater.
• Make sure that 'Trigger Templater on new file creation' is set to TRUE. This can be found under Settings > Templater > Trigger Templater on new file creation.

Setup

• Add the above shown template to your templates folder.
• When creating a new project using Projects select 'More settings' and scroll down to 'Templates'. At this point select 'Add Template' and then pick the path for the Task template you just added.
• Alternatively if you already have a project created you can always select 'Edit project', which is located to the right hand side of the 'project selection' dropdown menu. Then you can just follow the previous step to achieve the same effect.

Tags

Note that there is no need to be strict with the comma separated list as long as a comma is used to separate the items. That is, the tags can be entered with or without spaces after the comma. Additionally it is also possible to use spaces in a single item if our tag contains more than one word. Here is an example of how the tags are formatted for the front matter. Note that it is also converted to lowercase.

Say the user enters the following as their tag list:

"BUG, Feature,Please Fix,    one last tag   " // note the weird spaces

Then this will be the generated front matter:

tags:
  - bug
  - feature
  - please-fix
  - one-last-tag

Regards

I hope you find this template as useful as I do! And thank you to the Obsidian community for providing such awesome functionalities.