[FR] Ability to drag & drop attachments to properties

[ac8318740]

Loving the plugin so far!

I'd love the ability to drag & drop attachments to properties (e.g., I have a source_materials property. I currently have to drag attachments into the note body, then cut/paste the link into the property field.

When trying to drag and drop into properties directly now, it asks to open the file and doesn't insert it.

[alberti42]

Ok. I never thought about this possibility. Just curious, can you give an example about how an attachment in the link should look like?

[ac8318740]

Here's an example:

Frontmatter for this:

---

view_count: 1
source_materials:

• "[[!AutoStorage/!Attachments/Attachment1.pdf|Attachment1.pdf]]"
• "[[!AutoStorage/!Attachments/Attachment2.pdf|Attachment2.pdf]]"
• "[[!AutoStorage/!Attachments/Attachment3.pdf|Attachment3.pdf]]"

---

[ac8318740]

And core benefit for me as having these in frontmatter is to make it easier to reference / display in tables (e.g., dataview, datacore, db folder, etc.)

[alberti42]

Ok. I see, you even have multiple entries for a single property. But then I need to think about the separator. Should it be a just a space? Interesting approach. I also like to keep all documents attached to the vault somehow referenced in my notes.

However, I prefer to drag multiple of them a once and this creates a bullet point list. Then I add a little bit of comments, just to avoid that the vault becoming a container of any kind of "stuff".

However, I can see the use in your workflow too.

PS: But why do you use the exclamation mark ! inside the filename? Is it an Obsidian thing?

[ac8318740]

In frontmatter, the format that Obsidian uses for "List" type properties is the below (each list item is two spaces followed by "-" followed by one space, then the value. The format for files in frontmatter is the same, except that the double square brackets are wrapped in double quotes.

Property_Name:

• "[[Some link here]]"
• value without link

Re: your question about the exclamation mark, that is just the name of my folder so it goes to the top of the list. Similar to using any of "." "_" or "00.". Nothing to do with Obsidian (and probably actually poor form given Obsidian uses "!" for other things like embedding, but it works fine for my vault and I haven't changed it in a long time.