Attempting to create a new file with different extension

[sawft99]

My code:

<%*
let ProjectName = await tp.system.prompt("Project name")
let MaterialsName = ProjectName + " Materials"
let StepsName = ProjectName + " Steps"
await tp.file.rename(ProjectName)
let MaterialsLoomTemplate = tp.file.find_tfile("Template Loom Materials.loom") 
await tp.file.create_new(MaterialsLoomTemplate, MaterialsName + ".loom", false, app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath("Attachments"))
let StepsLoomTemplate = tp.file.find_tfile("Template Loom Steps.loom") 
await tp.file.create_new(StepsLoomTemplate, StepsName + ".loom", false, app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath("Attachments"))
-%>

I'm attempting to create a file with from a template, but the template file and the destination file should end with .loom.
When the line await tp.file.create_new(StepsLoomTemplate, StepsName + ".loom", false, app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath("Attachments")) runs, it just makes a file with .loom in the name and doesn't actually output to a file with that extension.

[AB1908]

What is the use case?

[sawft99]

...making a new loom file based on a template with a loom extension as well.

If you need more information. The loom file is part of the dataloom plugin. I'm attempting to trigger the creation of 2 accompanying loom files for every project file i make. One for materials and one for steps.

[AB1908]

Out of curiosity, have you tried using Obsidian's API to create the file directly? Also, does the dataloom extension provide an API to do this? Maybe you could ask the author to expose one to make the process smoother and more generally usable.

[sawft99]

If I were any kind of real developer maybe. I was hoping templater could do this, I have everything in place and working. It just needs to be a .loom file instead a .md when created. The process seems smooth enough.

[Zachatoo]

@sawft99 Should now be possible in Templater 2.2.0. Do not include the extension when calling tp.file.create_new(), Templater will use the same extension as the template file you're creating from. For example, because MaterialsLoomTemplate is a .loom file, if you call tp.file.create_new(MaterialsLoomTemplate, ...), the created file will also be a .loom file. Templater will also attempt to execute any Templater commands in that .loom file.

[sawft99]

Awesome. Thank you.