The path suggestion dropdown is hidden in the setting of some plugins

Help
1

In some plugins, the dropdown for path suggestion is hidden. I suspect it’s because they are old plugins, as Templater, a newly updated one, or core plugins doesn’t have this problem.

In this screenshot, I just press enter to accept the value.

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: 1.13.6
	Installer version: 1.13.6
	Operating system: Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200
	Login status: not logged in
	Language: en
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: off
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: Catppuccin 0.4.18
	Snippets enabled: 2
	Restricted mode: off
	Plugins installed: 37
	Plugins enabled: 35
		1: Another Quick Switcher v14.7.0
		2: Various Complements v11.4.0
		3: Advanced Tables v0.23.2
		4: Auto Link Title v1.5.5
		5: Better Inline Fields v0.3.5
		6: Code Editor Shortcuts v1.14.0
		7: Better Word Count v0.10.1
		8: Dataview v0.5.68
		9: Dataview Autocompletion v0.9.5
		10: File Diff v1.1.2
		11: Enveloppe v7.8.2
		12: Folder notes v1.8.26
		13: Front Matter Title v4.1.1
		14: Global Search and Replace v0.5.0
		15: Excalidraw v2.26.4
		16: Heading Shifter v1.12.1
		17: Hledger Notes v1.1.2
		18: Image Captions v1.1.7
		19: Image Context Menus v1.13.0
		20: Image to text OCR v1.0.5
		21: Jump to link v0.5.16
		22: Language Translator v1.0.4
		23: Note Refactor v1.8.2
		24: Natural Language Dates v0.6.4
		25: Open with v0.3.2
		26: Path Finder v1.1.7
		27: Plugin Groups v2.1.0
		28: Quick Switcher++ v6.1.6
		29: Quick Explorer v0.2.19
		30: Regex Find/Replace v1.2.0
		31: Style Settings v1.0.9
		32: Templater v2.25.0
		33: Version History Diff v2.3.8
		34: Update time on edit v2.4.0
		35: Advanced Mobile Toolbar v1.8.0

RECOMMENDATIONS:
	Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
	Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.
2

This doesn’t look like the default theme or a default Obsidian setting/menu option. Can you share a pic of this settings screen in the Sandbox vault?

Bug reports are usually only considered using the default theme, no css snippets, and in Restricted mode.

3

Install GitHub - beaussan/update-time-on-edit-obsidian · GitHub and GitHub - dsarman/better-inline-fields: Obsidian plugin to enhance Dataview style inline fields · GitHub on the sandbox vault and this still happens

4

This is most likely, from what I understand I least (and I could be wrong :sweat_smile: ), a plugin settings issue (not necessarily an Obsidian one).

Obsidian 1.13 introduced a brand new Settings API which plugins’ developers might need to implement within their plugin(s) :blush: .
So I think this could explain why this is happening in the settings of Update time on edit (for example, as I tested in the sandbox vault).

5

This is actually related to the new setting at Settings → Interface → Open settings in new window that was introduced in Obsidian 1.13.x.

There are over 200 plugins that copied each other for how to do a dropdown in settings. The implementation works fine except that it doesn’t work in a new window, which is now the default behavior.

The solution is for each plugin to either:

  1. Migrate to declarative settings (recommended)
  2. Use AbstractInputSuggest instead of a custom implementation, an example here

I’ll try to find some time this weekend to create a bunch of issues for the plugins I can find that need to be updated.

6

A workaround for users is to disable Settings → Interface → Open settings in new window

7

I created issues for 51 plugins, including the two mentioned in this thread. There were more but I only looked at plugins that have had commit or issue activity in the past 2 years.

  • Update time on edit issue #97
  • Better inline fields issue #13