Yaml frontmatter didn't convert to Properties

[holroy]

In the post below I show a query which might help you locate the offending frontmatter sections at least. This way you can focus your efforts on which files have bad yaml, and hopefully you’ll start seeing a pattern of what to change to make the yaml valid, which in turn will automatically make it into properties.

Is it possible to find all files in vault with bad YAML?

This kind of intrigued me a little bit, so after looking through what’s available in the app.metadataCache it seems that the frontmatter* entries are missing when the yaml is bad, but there is still an entry in sections for the yaml section. This we can then utilise to detect where our YAML is bad. I also found in some cases that the frontmatter could contain a notvalid setting, without anything else. ```dataviewjs const result = [] for (let [fname, fcache] of Object.entries(dv.app.metadataCa…

The post above should also be the answer to Query for notes with invalid YAML? (which has closed recently), but where a similar question where asked by @chrisdwells and @joshuawagner .