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What I’m trying to do
I have a bunch of notes with properties containing spaces.
E.g.:
Finished on: 2025-04-01
This even looks fine in the Properties block.
Now, I want to add that as a column to a base but I can’t figure out how to reference such a property.
Things I have tried
I read everything there is in Help on properties. It doesn’t say a word about spaces. Spaces in keys are valid YAML.
I also tried variations with underscores and no spaces. No luck.
If you want to display it in a base, I think you just need to look for it in the search bar of the Properties menu (and check its checkbox once you found it)
There’s an issue, I think, at the moment with the suggestions of the properties in that menu…
Now, if you want to reference it, I think it works if you surround the property with backticks:
`property.Finished on`
No guarantees this won’t change in the future though …
(Who knows at this early stage )
I was confused, apparently. The property wasn’t on the list but there’s an Add Property button. So I clicked it. It seem to have created a function but I still have no idea how that works. Syntax for that is not exactly described in the docs either.
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