What I’m trying to do
I’m trying to make a simple dataview table that groups by a single tag, say show all “meeting notes” for project “obsidian” so
TABLE date as "Date", project AS "Project", participants AS "Participants"
WHERE project = "Obsidian" AND type = "meeting notes"
This works fine. The problem occurs with how the frontmatter/property is done. When I use quickadd, or just add the property “Obsidian” by hand, it enters just fine. It doesn’t, however, show up in the query. When I look at the md file “Obsidian” is added as
project:
- Obsidian
which seems to be invisible to dataview with the above query. When I adjust it to
project: Obsidian
then it appears.
Further, once it appears, if I had “Multiple participants” like
participants:
-Joe
-Susie
-Billy
All of those will show up in the table
Things I have tried
I’m not sure what to try. I don’t want to edit the properties since that’s the default way they’re listed, but dataview seems to think when using “WHERE” that these are incorrect. When I choose a LIST instead I get something like
- Dog
- Cat
Bird
Fish
And it’s treating those first two properties differently than the second two by including the dash and space as though they are part of the category.
What am I doing wrong?