Set Properties action deletes empty properties in templates with Actions URI 1.9.0

Actions For Obsidian
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With Actions URI v1.8.4, AFO’s “Set Note Properties” action used to leave the properties that are in a template but not edited by the action as is (Mode set to “add new keys, update existing”), but with Actions URI v1.9.0, “Set Note Properties” deletes these empty properties & any body text in the template, and the non-empty properties are randomly placed in the processed md note. It seems the “add new keys, update existing” option is not working properly.

Anyone also experiencing this?

I’m using

  • Obsidian v1.13.4
  • Actions For Obsidian 2026.1.0(8089)
  • Actions URI v1.9.0
  • macOS 26.6
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Thanks for the bug report, @xcaveman!

I might be a bit dense today, but could you give me a short list of steps (“1. do this, 2. do that, 3. expectation Y, actual result Z”) that I can follow? It’d help with reproducing the issue.

And do you use any vault sync? iCloud Sync, Obsidian Sync, …?

That said, what you describe sounds like the plugin is using Set Note Properties’s “overwrite” path instead of the requested “update” path. It doesn’t explain the body deletion, though. That’s what I hope to figure out with your help!