Can't complete a todo item that ends with a space, when using a template

[Mayhem_SWE (Magnus)]

Seems like a catch 22. You need quotes to preserve the trailing whitespace, but quotes apparently aren’t stripped from template output.

Here is a thread about a similar problem, preserving leading whitespace. Seems like the consensus is that this is not possible.

Preserving Leading and Trailing Spaces in Automation Variables

Hello Home Assistant Community, I’m encountering an issue with an script where I want to set a variable with text, including leading and trailing spaces, and then pass this string to the text.set_value service while preserving all spaces. Here’s the code snippet: alias: TextSetValueTest sequence: - variables: text: " HOME" - service: text.set_value data: value: "{{text}}" target: entity_id: text.ff_office_switch_door_statustext1 mode: restart The pro…

@Dablidou

I know I could go and:

• Retrieve all the tasks in the todo entity with todo.get_items
• Perform a loop to find the task that contains the result of list[0] (reasonably there would be just one task fitting the criteria but it’s not logically guaranteed)
• Complete the found task

As far as I can tell from the documentation, there is no other way to refer to to-do items than by their name/label, no id or index or anything. So I don’t see how the above would be possible either?

At least not through normal HASS automation actions. Maybe you can do it by executing the action some different way, like say through the REST API, command line or Python.

Edit: Seems the todo.get_items action does return a UID for each todo item. Even though the documentation makes zero mention of it, the UID can be fed into todo.update_item as its item parameter. Seems like this is the only possible workaround.