parsing of YAML dictionaries

[simonfossom]

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Is your Feature Request related to a Problem or Annoyance?

view field can display property but it cannot parse YAML dict as far as I figured.

Describe the Feature you'd like

For frontmatter with dictionary entries, I'd like to display them with view field.

In following example: view[{page#tasks/&id-123456/title}<br>{page#tasks/&id-123456/description}][text{rendermarkdown}] or something like that.

tasks:
  - &id-123456
    title: "Complete project report"
    due: "2024-12-01"
    start: "2024-11-20"
    created: "2024-11-15"
    completed: "2024-11-21"
    description: |
      Prepare the final draft of the project report.
      Ensure all sections are proofread and approved by the team.
  - &id-asdfgh
    title: "Plan team meeting"
    due: "2024-11-25"
    start: "2024-11-22"
    created: "2024-11-18"
    completed: ""
    description: |
      "Organize a meeting to discuss the next quarter's objectives."
      Confirm availability of all team members.
    dependsOn: *id-123456

Alternatives

none really. even with Dataview it's complex query to do.

Additional Context

No response

[mProjectsCode]

What currently does not work? If you get a parsing error, have you tried tasks["&id-123456"].title?

[simonfossom]

I was so hoping that you'd say it was already implemented.
Sorry, I couldn't find example of it. :)

Your example doesn't work. Maybe because &id-123456 is an identifier and not key-value pair.

what works is VIEW[{Tasks#tasks[0].title}]

I'm trying to do stg like this: VIEW[{Tasks#tasks[0].title}<br>{Tasks#tasks[0].description}][text(renderMarkdown)]
but the rendering is off

it renders:

<div dir="ltr" class="cm-line"><img class="cm-widgetBuffer" aria-hidden="true"><span contenteditable="false"></span><img class="cm-widgetBuffer" aria-hidden="true"><img class="cm-widgetBuffer" aria-hidden="true"><span class="cm-inline-code mb-view mb-view-inline" contenteditable="false">
<!---->
<div class="mb-view-wrapper mb-view-text mb-view-markdown mb-view-type-text">
<p dir="auto">Complete project report<br>Prepare the final draft of the project report.<br>
Ensure all sections are proofread and approved by the team.</p></div></span><img class="cm-widgetBuffer" aria-hidden="true"> </div>

instead of stg like:

<div class="HyperMD-list-line HyperMD-list-line-1 HyperMD-task-line cm-line" data-task=" " dir="ltr" style="text-indent: -33px; padding-inline-start: 33px;"><span contenteditable="false"></span><label class="task-list-label" contenteditable="false"><input class="task-list-item-checkbox" type="checkbox" data-task=" "></label><span class="cm-list-1"> Complete project report</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-indent: -33px; padding-inline-start: 33px;" class="cm-line"><span class="cm-indent">	</span><span class="cm-list-1">Prepare the final draft of the project report.</span></div>
<div class="HyperMD-list-line HyperMD-list-line-1 HyperMD-list-line-nobullet cm-line" dir="ltr" style="text-indent: -33px; padding-inline-start: 33px;"><span class="cm-hmd-list-indent cm-hmd-list-indent-1"><span class="cm-indent">    </span></span><span class="cm-list-1">Ensure all sections are proofread and approved by the team.</span></div>

Have any suggestions?

[mProjectsCode]

Your example doesn't work. Maybe because &id-123456 is an identifier and not key-value pair.

Ah. All the yaml parsing is handled by Obsidian which uses this package afaik.

I'm trying to do stg like this: VIEW[{Tasks#tasks[0].title}
{Tasks#tasks[0].description}][text(renderMarkdown)]
but the rendering is off

Probably because your string contains some sort of indentation and indented text in markdown becomes a code block.

[mProjectsCode]

I can't do anything about YAML parsing, as it's handled by Obsidian, so I will close this issue for now.