Allow non-unique property values in a list

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

I am documenting a media archive and assign one note per recording. In the note, I am identifying individual media clips from within the recording, and assigning respective dates, durations, and start and end times. When a given clip takes place on the same date as another clip, I would like to be able to assign the same date value for that clip. Unfortunately, Obsidian recognizes the non-unique value, and wants me to change the value.

Example 
dates:
  - 1990-08-26
  - 1990-08-27
  - 1990-08-31
  - 1990-09-02
  - 1990-09-04
  - 1990-09-04
  - 1990-09-05
  - 1990-09-05
clip-start-times:
  - 00:00:00.000
  - 00:26:34.876
  - 00:34:01.005
  - 00:44:31.770
  - 01:25:10.026
  - 01:33:50.443
  - 02:00:57.334
  - 02:04:31.974
clip-end-times:
  - 00:26:34.876
  - 00:34:01.005
  - 00:44:31.770
  - 01:25:10.026
  - 01:33:50.443
  - 02:00:57.334
  - 02:04:31.974
  - 02:04:50.283

Proposed solution

Permit non-unique values in a list property type.

Current workarounds

  1. Include times in the date values (unfortunately, I do not have time info for the majority of the media clips)
  2. Prepend/append arbitrary characters or other values to the values (breaks the date, looks strange)
  3. Scrap the one-note-per recording idea and use a one-note-per-clip system instead (clashes with how I would prefer to organize my data, creates more work)
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thanks for creating the FR.

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My pleasure, it was my first. :smiley:

Regarding the FR, I’m currently not entirely sure I understand what I’m seeing, as I’ve come to notice, since posting the above, that Obsidian does actually permit non-unique values, but only when I enter them in Edit mode. So I think the issue summary and description may need to be updated, as soon as I and or/we determine what the expected behavior actually is and what’s going wrong.