{{annotations.length}} works in main template but not output path file name template

[KateNave]

Hello,

I would like to only create literature notes for pdfs that do have some annotations, so ignoring those that are unannotated. To do this I'm attempting to use {% if annotations.length > 0%}... This works fine within the main template for the literature note, but for some reason in the template settings for the output path file name, including annotations.length creates an error. If I just get it to print {{annotations.length}} here, then it always prints 0, no matter how many annotations the file has.

I cannot figure out why this would work in the main template, but not the output path one and any advice on this would be really appreciated - thanks!

[mgmeyers]

Yeah, unfortunately annotations are not accessible to the output path templates. This is because the output path has to be computed before extracting annotations from PDFs. I'll have to think on this a bit to see if there's a good way to only create notes for items with annotations.

[KateNave]

Ah, that makes sense - thanks :)