I have a Stamp to get imported references (from Bookends) in the format I prefer. What I do not understand is that when I apply the stamp the first time, the Note’s name is changed to the reference title (e.g. Letter to John Smith). If I apply the same stamp a second time, it changes the title to what I intended, namely date and reference title (e.g. 2020-10-20 - Letter to John Smith). I am puzzled about why I have to apply the stamp twice to make it work properly. The contents of the stamp in question is:
It is not a big deal, as applying the stamp twice is pretty easy, but I cannot understand why it should do this. This seems to happen fairly consistently. I drop the references in using Option-Cmnd-drag.
This works first time for me in v8.8.0 (on a note dragged from Bookends v.13.x). I normally have just the Year in the Bookends ‘Date’ filed (which populates $PublicationYear) but I altered a record to your yyyy-mm-dd and the import and them stamp still worked just fine first time.
So, my best guess is there may be non-printing characters in the source data from your Bookends which confuses the action. Could you upload a small TBX with some imported references you know react this way and with your stamp installed? This will allow us to have consistent test data.
I waited to respond because I decided to upgrade my Mac to a new model running Catalina, and since doing that the puzzling behaviour seems to have stopped, most of the time, if not completely, hence my silence. No idea what I could have done in transferring everything to the new machine so I will just get on with trying to use TB to sort out some material. Thanks for the offer to help.