New properties and dataview queries

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What I’m trying to do

Before the recent updates, I was using front matter in my recipe notes to create a list of ingredients searchable via dataview. I intentionally didn’t format the ingredient list in the main body of the note this way because it’s ugly and hard to read.

It looks like what I had in this older thread: Need help with a Dataview query - #7 by a2jc4life (I don’t even know how to copy it from an existing note now because it doesn’t show up anywhere.)

I wasn’t finished yet with editing all the notes in my very extensive recipe database. So now I have a few hundred notes that looked like the old one and now have NO visible front matter at all, and thousands more that I hadn’t finished with yet. And as far as I can tell, I’m going to have to start all over again with everything, and I can’t copy/paste into the YMAL; I have to manually enter every line – of the ingredients, the categories (which are set up as tags), etc. And copying in a template skips all the front matter that was part of it.

Am I missing something? The clean look of the new options is nice, but it’s essentially ruined hundreds of notes, unless I’m missing something somewhere.

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Have you tried looking at those ‘empty’ notes using source view?
Properties don’t show nested yaml well, but it should still be here, most likely

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You’re right; it does seem to be there in Source mode.

It doesn’t seem to include that portion of the template, though, if I insert a template into a new note (even in source view, the new note then doesn’t have any YAML content).

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