How to add aliases in the template?

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I would like to add aliases in my template.
I tried “+roam_aliases:”, like this:

(setq org-roam-capture-templates
          '(
            ;; other templates 
            ("r" "ref" plain
             "%?"
             :if-new (file+head "./ref_notes/${slug}.org"
                                "#+title: ${title}\n#+roam_aliases: ${citekey}\n")
             :unnarrowed t)))

But it was added outside the PROPERTY block. So the file cannot be found using “org-roam-node-find”.

2

Hi @gnohz
your post is “old” but still urgent for me.

Did you find a solution for your usecase?

Today I found
Enable user to add custom properties and prompts in capture templates to the file-level :PROPERTIES: drawer · Issue #1783 · org-roam/org-roam (github.com)

Kind

3

I suggest you try like Jethro does (adding the whole property drawer directly in the template) and see if this works for you…

4

org-capture-fill-template: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

is typically caused by missing closing parentheses.

5

Thanks for the reply. I use Shift+5 and rainbow-paranthesis to find the correct pairs. Seems OK to me.

Here is the snippet

      ("x" "test" plain
      "\n* Source\nAuthor: %^{Author}\nTitle: ${title}\nDOI: [[https://doi.org/%^{DOI}][%\\2]]\n%?"
      :if-new (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org"
             ":PROPERTIES:
:ROAM_ALIASES: %\\2
:END:
#+title: ${title}
#+date: %U
#+filetags: X")
      :unnarrowed t)

and here is the full org part including the snipped

(use-package org-roam
  :init  ; is called before the package is loaded
  (setq org-roam-v2-ack t)  ; do not show migration warning after startup
  :custom
  (org-roam-directory "~/tab-cloud/my.org-roam")
  (org-roam-completion-everywhere t)  ; use compleation-at-point NOT only
                      ; between brackets
  (org-roam-capture-templates  ; Keep in mind: store that templates in .org
                   ; files. Use (file "filename.org") for that.
   '(
     ("d" "default" plain  ; default incl. date
      "%?"
      :if-new (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org"
             "#+title: ${title}\n#+date: %U")
      :unnarrowed t)

      ("x" "test" plain
      "\n* Source\nAuthor: %^{Author}\nTitle: ${title}\nDOI: [[https://doi.org/%^{DOI}][%\\2]]\n%?"
      :if-new (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org"
             ":PROPERTIES:
:ROAM_ALIASES: %\\2
:END:
#+title: ${title}
#+date: %U
#+filetags: X")
      :unnarrowed t)

      ("b" "Bibliographic notes" plain
      "\n* Source\nAuthor: %^{Author}\nTitle: ${title}\nYear: %^{Year}\nDOI: [[https://doi.org/%^{DOI}][%\\3]]\n\n* Summary\n\n%?"
      :if-new (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org"
               "#+title: ${title}\n#+date: %U\n#+filetags: Bib")
      :unnarrowed t)

     ("p" "project" plain  ; see +filetags
      "* Goals\n\n%?\n\n* Tasks\n\n** TODO Add initial tasks\n\n* Dates\n\n"
      :if-new (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org" "#+title: ${title}\n#+filetags: Project")
      :unnarrowed t)
     ("w" "Wiki" plain
      "%?"
      :if-new (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org"
             "#+title: ${title}\n#+date: %U\n#+filetags: Wiki")
      :unnarrowed t)
     ("m" "Meta" plain
      "* ${title}\nSammelbecken zum Thema\n%?"
      :if-new (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org"
             "#+title: ${title}\n#+date: %U\n#+filetags: Meta")
      :unnarrowed t)
     )
   )
  :bind (("C-c n l" . org-roam-buffer-toggle)
     ("C-c n f" . org-roam-node-find)
     ("C-c n i" . org-roam-node-insert)
     :map org-mode-map
     ("C-M-i" . completion-at-point)
     ;:map org-roam-dailies-map
     ;("Y" . org-roam-dailies-capture-yesterday) ; means "C-c n d Y"
     ;("T" . org-roam-dailies-capture-tomorrow)
     )
  ;:bind-keymap
  ;("C-c n d" . org-roam-dailies-map)
  :config
  ;(require 'org-roam-dailies)
  ; Show +FILETAG in node list
  ; https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/commit/6f5d65abd9e707b3fdb10092a9fef3b739e143dd
  (setq fill-prefix "")  ;; see https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/38943/12999
  (setq org-roam-node-display-template
    (concat "${title:*} "
        (propertize "${tags:20}" 'face 'org-tag)))
  (org-roam-db-autosync-mode)
  )
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