How do I enable changing frontmatter values?

[ruskajoa]

What I’m trying to do

I’m trying to add some frontmatter to my note to use the April’s Automatic Timelines plugin and I’ve got two problems. The first is this: the type of frontmatter value I want to use (number) isn’t available to begin with.

The second problem is this: when I try to change the value afterwards, all value types are greyed out unavailable, so I have no way of using the correct value type.

For reference, this is what my frontmatter should look like:

And I can’t make mine like this ‘cause I can’t access all the frontmatter options.

Things I have tried

I tried switching to source mode but that didn’t help. I tried looking through Obsidian’s settings to see if I have to set up the frontmatter values somewhere but I couldn’t find anything of the sort. I’ve double and triple-checked the AAT plugin documentation & tutorials and there’s nothing about how to get the right frontmatter values to work, so I assume it’s some piss-easy simple set-up that I’ve just completely missed.

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction here. Cheers <3

[ruskajoa]

Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention: I’ve also tried cross-referencing my vault’s settings with AAT’s sample vault’s settings and can’t find any discrepancies. If that matters.

[ruskajoa]

Okay I guess I found the fix after all? I just changed the text in the value box from whatever I had there to something else. And suddenly I can change the value type. Still don’t see all of them when I first create the frontmatter though, which is odd. But basically this solves my problem, albeit in a pretty roundabout way.

[ruskajoa]

Ah. Now that I’ve done the frontmatter once… it’s showing up when I go to create new frontmatter. Problem solved, everyone!