Add or update Yaml properties and Dataview fields easily
Ignore properties to hide them from the menu
Auto Properties that have customizable, pre-defined values selectable through a suggester
Multi-Value Mode that allows you to detect and vectorize/create arrays from your values
Progress Properties that automatically update properties/fields
Works with total task, completed task, and incomplete task counts. Mark a task as completed (from anywhere), and the file will be updated with the new count.
Transform properties between YAML and Dataview
Delete properties easily
Auto update properties in files linked to from Kanban boards on lane change
It was my first installation, done by expanding the zip file in the plugins folder. I removed and reinstalled a couple of times with the same results. Anything else I can do to help you diagnose?
Did you extract the ZIP file straight into the plugins folder? Or did you create a new folder in the plugins first, and extracted the ZIP file contents in there? Or did you extract the folder from the ZIP file into the plugins folder?
Do other plugins work?
What are the contents of your metaedit folder in plugins?
Is the metaedit folder written like ‘metaedit’ or ‘MetaEdit’ - maybe rename to all lowercase.
Thanks for the help. As you likely suspected, it was user error. I’d downloaded the MetaEdit-master zip, rather than the 1.6.2 zip. All systems are go. The video is helpful. Thanks again.
Hi there,
I like the idea of the plugin, and the demos you provide are impressive, but my script-fu is weak … is there a walk-through somewhere of some of the examples (the tags and the library ratings, at least?) - the gifs go too fast for me to see what’s going on, and I can’t for the life of me figure out the setup…
thanks!
The two gif demos that are shown in your original post - the one with the book ratings and the one with tag support … do you have a sample setup that I could look at to figure out how you did it?
Ahh, I see. Those were taken on my own vault to demonstrate the ‘Edit Meta’ feature and how tags are supported.
Edit Meta
You can right-click any file / link and click ‘Edit Meta’, which will ask you which frontmatter property or dataview field you want to edit.
Tag support
You can change the value of a tag. If you use the MetaEdit method, it changes the last item in a tag. So if it’s #tag/nested, it would change nested.
I hope this helps a bit. It’s been a while since I changed the things shown in the GIF, so I can’t just retrieve them, unfortunately.
It took a bit of trial and error to work out the inner workings, but I was able to make metaedit work with dataviewjs. For my use case, I have a monthly note (named YYYY-MM.md) and daily note (named YYYY-MM-DD.md) that all live in the LogBook directory. The daily notes include metadata about when I start and end my day, and hours I worked. I created a file with the code below and it’s embedded it in my monthly note.
Now, I just click on hours, startTime, endTime, or note cell, and can edit the value in the monthly note without leaving the page. The only downside is that the only way to clear a value is to type a space in the modal prior to hitting enter. Would love to be able to just hit enter to clear. editMetaElement doesn’t return the content on what was entered so there’s no way to know whether a value was entered or not - if it did, I could use the update operation to clear out the value on my own.
that is so cool. it tried metaedit but couldn’t figure out how i can edit values on dataview tables. is it dependent on the script you used or it is a metaedit feature?
is there a way to pre-set nested values. for example giving project.order a defined set of values. I am not sure its not supported or i am doing the syntax wrong
Very true. I’ve been playing with both plugins to get a sense of what they can do. What I really like about yours is the exposed API. That’s something supercharged links does not have.