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Changelog

All notable changes to Bases Visuals are documented here.

0.14.0 — 2026-09-02

• Store Base-wide visual choices once in a sparse, portable top-level basesVisuals block instead of copying a complete registry into every view.
• Keep automatically discovered properties and values in memory so opening or scrolling a Base no longer grows its file.
• Migrate legacy basesVisualsBase blocks while discarding default-only values and settings unrelated to the current Base.
• Scope Clean unused to the current Base result set instead of treating values elsewhere in the vault as locally used.

0.13.2 — 2026-08-31

• Add collapsible property categories to the Pill colors manager with clear chevrons and keyboard-accessible title controls.
• Save collapsed categories by canonical property ID across manager and Obsidian reloads while temporarily expanding search results.
• Prevent theme button hover and focus styles from turning disclosure headers into oversized gray controls.

0.13.1 — 2026-08-31

• Rework conditional-formatting treatments so long actions no longer overlap or clip.
• Give Override pill colors a dedicated full-width setting row with supporting text.
• Truncate long color summaries cleanly and remove intrusive field-group tooltips.
• Allocate more room to formatting controls while retaining the responsive stacked layout.

0.13.0 — 2026-08-31

• Make new conditional-formatting rules visually empty until a treatment is selected.
• Add a true No background action and rename the conditional neutral treatment to Muted.
• Replace browser datalist value completion with Obsidian's native suggestion menu.
• Restore direct keyboard editing, selection, copying, and pasting in custom hex inputs.
• Add an optional Override pill colors treatment for conditional backgrounds.

0.12.0 — 2026-08-31

• Redesign conditional-formatting cards into a responsive When/Then layout without horizontal scrolling.
• Restrict conditional-formatting properties to the current Base and add native value autocomplete.
• Add independent background and exact text colors, including a permanent light Neutral treatment.
• Add optional Bold and Strikethrough text treatments to formatting rules.
• Add per-rule background tint strength from 0–100%, with synchronized controls and a stronger hover state.
• Keep pill appearance changes responsive and persistent across live views and rerendered Base configuration objects.
• Improve compact pill-style and color-strategy controls throughout the full manager and column popovers.
• Preserve backward compatibility by safely discarding the unsupported conditional row-height experiment from saved rules.

0.11.0 — 2026-08-31

• Convert Pill style and Color strategy settings into space-efficient live preview dropdown triggers.
• Support continuous live previewing with dropdowns remaining open during option selection.
• Reduce pill preview rounding to 4px to match Obsidian's native multi-select pill styling.
• Streamline Color strategy choices to Smart, Distinct values, Single color, Neutral, and Off.
• Remove redundant single-color swatch palette from Smart mode so automatic heuristics apply cleanly.
• Fix dropdown menu overflow clipping in popovers and modals with fixed body-mounted positioning and auto-flip collision handling.
• Fix right-click column context menu popover interaction and live updates.
• Keep the Reset property button permanently visible in the format manager to eliminate layout shifts.
• Fix column bolding in tables where some rows contain empty cells.

0.10.1 — 2026-08-31

• Preserve Solid and Outline pill styles when they are attached to the default Smart color strategy.
• Merge Base-wide visual changes from separate live views instead of letting stale complete records overwrite one another.
• Propagate merged pill settings immediately across every open view of the same .base file.
• Serialize .base synchronization so an older save cannot finish after and undo a newer change.
• Preserve local edits made while sibling Base settings and canonical property identities are still hydrating.
• Add regression coverage for simultaneous note.priority_todo and note.workstream_todo style changes.

0.10.0 — 2026-08-30

• Add complete arrow, Home, and End keyboard behavior with roving focus to custom row-height, width-scope, and column-tone radio groups.
• Centralize native pill removal for the hover ×, Delete/Backspace, and the right-click manager.
• Prevent active-pill deletion from falling through to Obsidian's cell-level delete behavior when native removal is unavailable.
• Detect unavailable or non-responsive native pill controls and show a throttled compatibility notice instead of failing silently.
• Batch and deduplicate Base DOM mutations with one discovery traversal per changed subtree, including virtualized table updates.
• Clean detached leaves from tracked collections instead of rescanning their complete DOM during teardown.
• Add desktop drag-and-drop ordering for conditional-formatting rules with clear insertion indicators and exact positioning.
• Preserve Move up/down buttons and Alt+Arrow ordering, and announce successful moves to assistive technology.
• Disable ambiguous drag ordering while rule search is filtering the visible list.
• Expand Smart property recognition for suffixed status and priority fields and support more common semantic value aliases.
• Normalize ordered and parenthetical values such as 2.In Progress, 3.Waiting (for a dependency), and 1.P0 before semantic color matching.

0.8.0 — 2026-08-29

• Add Soft, Solid, and Outline pill styles per property, independently of its color strategy.
• Use white text for Solid pills and darken bright accents only as much as needed for readable contrast.
• Apply pill styles consistently to live tables, previews, contextual managers, and grouped-value badges.
• Add a confirmed Clean unused action that removes stale saved pill settings without changing notes.
• Sort numbered values naturally, so 2 appears before 10 and 17.
• Assign leading-numbered Distinct values predictably across the nine-color palette.
• Rework grouped-value badges into a flush U shape with square top corners and rounded bottom corners.
• Normalize native pill spacing to remove inconsistent left padding across property types.
• Refresh pill styles immediately after settings changes and recover them when Obsidian rewrites rendered classes.

0.7.0 — 2026-08-28

• Add Smart, Distinct, Status, Priority, Single color, Neutral, and Off strategies for each property.
• Infer restrained defaults from property IDs and display names while keeping exact value overrides authoritative.
• Add semantic Status and Priority mappings, including ordered labels such as 1. In Progress and 2. Done.
• Replace the legacy palette with nine stable named accents and migrate existing preset overrides automatically.
• Generate WCAG AA pill text colors separately for light and dark themes over softer 12% backgrounds.
• Add property-strategy controls to the Format manager and the column-focused pill manager.
• Replace full-width group color banners with neutral headings and accessible colored value badges.
• Render main-column links neutrally at rest, revealing Obsidian's accent on hover and keyboard focus.
• Apply the same contrast system to custom colors, previews, group badges, and conditional formatting.
• Persist explicit property strategies with Base-wide visual data while leaving derived Smart choices unstored.

0.6.0 — 2026-08-14

• Store pill colors with each Base and share them across that Base's views.
• Add per-rule This view and All views scopes for conditional formatting.
• Add an All views in this base toggle for column text color and emphasis.
• Copy existing global pill colors and rules into each Base on first use, then let Bases evolve independently.
• Synchronize Base-wide visual settings to newly created views while keeping view-specific rules isolated.
• Move Base-specific visual management to the native Format toolbar manager.
• Keep reusable layout presets and manager preferences global.
• Preserve normal Obsidian behavior when the plugin is disabled by using namespaced Base view configuration.

0.5.0 — 2026-08-14

• Color grouped table headings with the same property/value color as their matching pills.
• Remove the native gray gap between colored group headings and their rows.
• Add a native Column appearance entry to column-header context menus.
• Add view-specific Default, Muted, Faint, and custom text colors for column body cells.
• Add an independent Bold column control that combines with every text treatment.
• Preserve semantic pill colors while gently reducing their prominence in muted or faint columns.
• Open Column appearance as a hoverable, keyboard-accessible submenu beside the native menu.
• Keep column headers unchanged when applying body-cell appearance.
• Display the full author name, Gabriel Bacha, in Obsidian.

0.4.0 — 2026-08-13

• Add a native Layout toolbar control beside Format for Base tables.
• Expose Obsidian's Short, Medium, Tall, and Extra tall row-height settings directly in Layout.
• Add Compact, Standard, Wide, and Maximum column-width presets with Unset only and confirmed All columns scopes.
• Keep the Layout popover open while testing widths and make its toolbar button toggle the popover closed.
• Add temporary column-header indicators showing which columns match or will change with the selected width.
• Add named saved-layout presets that restore row height, column width, and width scope together.
• Add confirmed column-width reset and confirmation before every operation that overwrites all column widths.
• Add a subtle Base header tint and bold the first configured visible column.
• Persist and validate layout presets through settings schema version 3.

0.3.0 — 2026-08-06

• Add an intent-first pill menu with separate color and column-manager views plus native-backed removal from the current row.
• Show column search only for larger value sets and highlight the originally clicked value.
• Refine pill menus with native icons, compact swatches, clearer focus states, and confirmation before removing a value.
• Make conditional-formatting rule fields horizontally scrollable in narrow manager windows.
• Match the Base toolbar with a transparent, compact palette + Format control.
• Add a unified Bases Visuals modal with Pill colors and Conditional formatting tabs.
• Reuse the searchable, property-grouped pill color manager in both the modal and settings.

0.2.2

• Match the native two-level Base toolbar item structure.
• Remove the oversized filled appearance from the Conditional formatting action.

0.2.1

• Fix the Conditional formatting toolbar button in native Base file views.
• Match Obsidian's current sibling .bases-header and .bases-view structure.

0.2.0

Initial public release.

• Add deterministic Notion-inspired colors for list-property pills.
• Add preset, custom, automatic, and disabled color states.
• Add conditional formatting for matching cells and entire rows.
• Add a native-style Conditional formatting action to Base table toolbars.
• Support native and embedded Base tables, virtualized rows, and pop-out windows.
• Preserve Obsidian's native list editor without modifying notes or Base definitions.