[Feature Enhancement] Ability to set property types during import

[zenminimalist]

With Obsidian 1.4 around the corner (some that are already using it - not me, though), is there any way to import CSVs and have the property type set during import? I'm not sure how that property type works in the backend of things or how that might be exposed for plugins.

E.g. when importing a date or even a time column it should recognize it as such, when importing words that should be set as aliases or checkmark property type etc.

I'd be happy to test any pre-builds as I've already been testing your plugin the last few months with >800 rows of data and it works so beautifully :)

[farling42]

At the moment, it looks like there's no way for an plugin to define the type of a property.

[zenminimalist]

Thanks, that's a shame. As a workaround: How would you approach this to change them in bulk?

[farling42]

I don't have access to Obsidian 1.4 yet. The only UI I've seen is a popup menu that appears on each property within each Note.

[zenminimalist]

Yeah, that almost sounds like it's more a UI feature that is "put over" the YAML b/c if you change it back to code view you see the "old" view, which doesn't have those additional properties.

Guess we'll have to wait if Obsidian makes that feature available to other plugins. I'll definitely keep my eye on that :)

[farling42]

Yeah, it's not a good thing if the types are stored somewhere other than inside the actual note.