Should advanced canvas work with metadata menu ?

[nklamann]

Metadats menu Repo is a plugin which supports consolidation of metadata and it offers a connection between frontmatter metadata of notes and their position and links in a native canvas Documnetation of 'canvas' fields.

This is a powerful combination.

I did some light tests with advanced canvas and metadata menu in a sandbox and it seems that this doe not work with advanced canvas enabled.

Because the file format of advanced canvas is backward compatible to the native canvas a workaround is possible: Disable advanced canvas to work with thie feature of metadata menu.

Nevertheless i wonder : should this work ?

[Developer-Mike]

Sorry for the delayed answer. As far as I understand, this is not a file format issue (bc it is fully backwards compatible) but rather an issue with either the AC's metadata cache compatibility implementation and/or metadata menu's metadata cache implementation. The current metadata cache implementation in AC was really difficult to pull off, because Obsidian hardcodes the requirement that the file needs to be a markdown file in multiple nested places. There will be an updated metadata cache compatiblity implementation soon (hopefully) but there is absolutely no guarantee that it will work with other plugins - it will just implement the metadata cache as native as possible which other plugins should handle well.