[FR]: Store relation in frontmatter property instead of inline data

[despens]

Present your request

In version 3.5.0, relations seems to be always created as inline data. It would be great if relations could be expressed as a regular frontmatter property.

For which platform do you request this request??

Desktop, any

[stokkes]

Adding a +1 to this.

Is this by design or a bug? I (and I'm sure many others) would much prefer having everything in the frontmatter and not inline. Especially with the recent Obsidian update for Properties, it makes things a lot cleaner.

Can we get this upated(fixed?)

[FlipH19Switch]

Yes I would like to see this too. It would help with keeping pages tidy when publishing them using the Digital Garden plugin.

[NibiruanChild]

+1
I'm here because of this problem

[AnthonyMansour]

I would also love this. +1

It seems like Relations were forced to be inline when they were first added cause Obsidian doesn't support parsing multiple links in a text frontmatter type.
It gets all garbled up like this:

But Obsidian has the List frontmatter type that is formatted like this in YAML:

example_property: 
  - "[[example page 1]]"
  - "[[example page 2]]"
  - "[[etc]]"

So it could easily be implemented in this plugin to use that format for Relations.

Hopefully someone gets around to adding it, but if not I'll find some time in a few months.

[cvvvm]

Until there's a fix - you can fix relations being created as inline instead of front-matter by:

1. Going into the markdown view for the table
2. Finding related field config
3. Manually change inline property to "false"

Alternatively, I've found you can also create the field as text, and after creating change to relation.