Button to update metadata list with textfield contents

[AfroSpartan]

I'm trying to create a button which adds the contents of a textfield to a list property called skills I current have the textfield bound to a text property called newSkill and I want to add the value from newSkill to the skills list and then clear the newSkill field.

I can't seem to figure out how to reference another property in the updateMetadata or js actions.

[Jacks-01]

Have you tried using a JS view field? There are some examples that are similar to what you are asking (I think) under Advanced Use-Cases in the documentation. They utilize JS View Fields.

I was able to dynamically update one bind value based off another bind-value when clicking a button using them. For example, setting the current_hp of my character back to full health (another bind value total_hp) I clicked a meta-bind button called "long rest".

[mProjectsCode]

Or you can use the JS button action to run a JS script where you first get the metadata you want and then update the other metadata based on that. (You can run button actions from JS using the plugins API)

[AfroSpartan]

I ended up using a JS file with the metaedit plugin

const metaedit = this.app.plugins.plugins["metaedit"].api;

let filePath = this.app.workspace.getActiveFile();
let skillObject = await metaedit.getPropertyValue("skills", filePath);
let newSkillName = await metaedit.getPropertyValue("newSkill", filePath);

skillObject[newSkillName] = "Neutral";

await metaedit.update("skills", skillObject, filePath);
await metaedit.update("newSkill", "", filePath);