Missing property types

[lesaurus]

What I’m trying to do

I am using version 1.5.3 and trying learn about properties. I am using — to start adding new properties and expect to see all the types available such as “Text”, “Date” etc

All I see is:
Tags
csscalsses
excalidraw-plugin
obsidianUIMode
ailiases

Why am I missing the standard types?

Things I have tried

Disabled a load of plugins and rebooted

[ariehen]

There are only three default Properties (excluding the Obsidian Publish ones):

Obsidian comes with a set of default properties:

Property	Description
tags	See Tags.
aliases	See Aliases.
cssclasses	Allows you to style individual notes using CSS snippets - Obsidian Help.

https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Properties#Default+properties

---

If you open the Sandbox vault (Help / F1 → Sandbox vault), and type --- on line one of a note, you’ll see them there ready to go.

Anything else needs to be added by you or existing in a note already.

[holroy]

Those are not types but properties. So create new properties, and right click on that and you’ll see types pop up.

[ariehen]

holroy is referring to this:

https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Properties#Property+types

[lesaurus]

OK thank you. I realized I need to enter something first and then the types become available. Was confusing at first!