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  • Documentation (prefix: docs - improvements to any documentation content for users)
  • Sample vault (prefix: vault - improvements to the Tasks-Demo sample vault)

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  • Tests (prefix: test - additions and improvements to unit tests and the smoke tests)

Description

In addressing #3482 I've learned a bit more about how Obsidian 1.9.2 has changed its reading of properties tags, aliases and cssclasses properties - and the now un-supported tag, alias, cssclass properties.

I've tried to write up a systematic way for others to update any affected notes in their vaults.

The new page will be published at:

https://publish.obsidian.md/tasks/Support+and+Help/Missing+tags,+aliases+and+cssclasses+in+Obsidian+some+1.9.x+versions

Motivation and Context

Fix #3482:

How has this been tested?

In the test vault.

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…Obsidian 1.9.2

The following tags frontmatter line is no longer read:
  "tags": "journal",

See #3482
…by Obsidian 1.9.2

The following tags frontmatter line is no longer read:

TAG:
  - value1
  - value2

This means that getAllTags() and parseFrontMatterTags() do not see those tags.

See #3482
… parsed differently by Obsidian 1.9.2

The following tags frontmatter line is no longer read:

tags: single-value-single-line

This means that getAllTags() and parseFrontMatterTags() do not see those tags.

See #3482
…arsed differently by Obsidian 1.9.2

The following tags frontmatter line is no longer read:

tags: value-1-of-2-on-one-line, value-2-of-2-on-one-line

This means that getAllTags() and parseFrontMatterTags() do not see those tag values.

See #3482
@claremacrae claremacrae added scope: parsing markdown See also 'scope: global filter' scope: frontmatter Anything to do with YAML frontmatter, also known as Obsidian properties scope: documentation Improvements or additions to documentation labels Jun 17, 2025
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Update test data for Obsidian 1.9's changing parsing of tags and aliases
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