Is it possible to write formatted text using the front-end API?

[architectdrone]

Hey,

I am trying to insert a link from one note to another using a front-end script. I know that there is a method called api.addTextToActiveContextEditor, but that can only handle text, according to the docs. Is there an alternative that will allow programmatically inserting rich text?

Here's my code so far. It is supposed to create a new note in a different directory with the contexts of your clipboard and then insert a link to it, like in QOwnNotes

api.bindGlobalShortcut(
    "Ctrl+Shift+V",
    async () => {        
        try {
            let text = await navigator.clipboard.readText();

            let id = '';
            const characters = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
            const charactersLength = characters.length;
            let counter = 0;
            while (counter < 5) {
              id += characters.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * charactersLength));
              counter += 1;
            }

            const taskNoteId = await api.runOnBackend((id, text) => {
                const attachmentRootNote = api.getNoteWithLabel("attachmentRoot");
                const resp = api.createTextNote(attachmentRootNote.noteId, "text-"+id+".txt", text)
                return resp.note.noteId;
            }, [id,text]);
            await api.waitUntilSynced();
            api.addTextToActiveContextEditor("[Link](#root/"+taskNoteId+")")
        } catch (error) {
            alert(error)
        }
    },
    "Paste as Attachment"
)

[SiriusXT]

I don’t know if this is what you need. It can directly set the content of the target note.

api.runAsyncOnBackendWithManualTransactionHandling(async (noteId, noteContext) => {
                (await api.getNote(noteId)).setContent(noteContext);
}, [this.note.noteId, noteContext]);

[architectdrone]

this is exactly what I needed @SiriusXT, many thanks :)