Unfortunately, yes text animators can throw off Templater’s layout logic. You will like have to tweak the animator’s params based on how the data looks for various jobs. Does the issue show up each time you preview? To gain a clearer sense, can you post a short screencast or GIF capture?

Thanks,
Arie

Also, after first download and import on empty placeholder, after that if I change the link to the image, it wont download it again, I need to put new empty placeholder to download new image. Is it possible to fix that in some way ?

@rivalpro

The way to avoid the issue is to use a # before all hex values in spreadsheet data. This shouldn’t happen with JSON data, as it is a quirk of how spreadsheet software (including Google Sheets) attempts to detect the data type in a cell and set the formatting. Using # will override the Sheet from setting incorrect formatting while the Bot is processing its data. While the Bot is running, the Sheet will think that you are changing data, and will try to automatically format all-numerical hex values as numbers unless they use the #.

Hi Rival,

Apologies for the long delay on the forum reply. We’re you able to get this solved? It sounds like a cacheing issue or possibly that either AE or AME need to be restarted. Were you able to get it resolved?

@spelgrift Take a look at the table in our documentation that defines each event and when it is broadcast within Templater’s algorithm. This should help you decide which events to register your scripts to.

Hey Ronan,

You have the ability to write a shell script on the “Pre-Data” event. See event [ 2a ] in our table of events that Templater broadcasts. In that script, you can run any commands needed to retrieve an API access token. Does this help?

For remote URL data sources, Templater supports Basic Authentication at the moment. How are you expecting to use the API access token once you retrieve it? Are you wanting to send it with request Templater makes? If so, I’m not sure that’s possible out of the box even with scripting. However, you should be able to get the API token via a shell script by registering it to the “Pre-Data” event.

Thanks,
Arie

Hi there!

How is the file referenced in your data source? And, is the file on a cloud storage service like Dropbox or Google Drive?

To be sure the reference must be a direct download and not protected by some kind of sharing service where the actual link might be different from the actual file itself. Further, the reference must contain a file extension for AE to be able to interpret it.

We are working on a method to support Dropbox and other sync services like google Drive, but S3 links are supported.

Does this help?

@pablogomez If you are using a “Bot” workflow, where the Bot is watching (“pulling”) your data source, you need to have the UI visible. CLI can run without, as long as you are “pushing” data in, and not using the Bot. Have you seen the other thread about application architecture?