Tags property type?

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I have a YAML property called tags and the property type is Tags - it should be ‘list’, how can we do this?

What if the property type is ‘text’ - should it be ‘list’ or ‘Tags’ since ‘text’ type is almost certainly wrong in the new regime - any way I can correct this?

if the property type is ‘Tags’ is that fine and acceptable or does it HAVE to be LIST and going forward should we use LIST or TAGS as a property type

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I’m guessing “tags” is the correct type since “tags” is a default property. But the documentation doesn’t mention the “tags” type in the property types section. I don’t know if the docs or the app is wrong.

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My understanding is that the tags property should have the tags property type. It should be the only property with the tags property type.

When I look at my vault’s .obsidian/types.json file, it says "tags": "tags", whereas regular list type properties say (for example, if I have a list type author property) "author":"multitext". Also, when I right click on the tags property in my vault > “Property type” > “Tags” is checked and grayed out because you can’t/shouldn’t change it.

That being said, the property values of the tags property should be formatted like a list.

---
tags: 
  - "this-is-a-tag"
  - "another-tag"
---

If you are asking how to convert your tags property to use a list format, I believe the Linter community plugin can help with that. The setting is called YAML tags section style, choose the multi-line option

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The Format Converter core plugin will do it.

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Thanks - actually the type is Tags by default - so I just let it be. But, the documentation says list should be used but for tags they seems to have made that Tags and for others we have to use LIST and not TEXT

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I filed an issue on the docs. Type of tags property is apparently wrong, and the "tags" property type is undocumented · Issue #957 · obsidianmd/obsidian-help · GitHub

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