Try this for a bit of troubleshooting:
list
from "journals"
where contains(file, "day")
If the file shows up then the .day field is populated, meaning it recognizes the date in the file name.
If the file does not show up it means dataview does not recognize a date in the file name.
Could you share the code behind all of this (placing the dots on the maps etc)? It’s amazing!
That produced no results so clearly my naming convention for daily files isn’t recognised. I have tried creating files with various date formats for the filename but none seem to work. Weird !
Does anyone else suddenly have a lot of extra empty space between rows in a dataview table … ? Everything is up 2 date, without a custom skin or snippets.
Well … not suddenly … I have always had way too much space bewteen rows in a table. I mostly use lists because of it.
So, I’m having sooo much trouble with contains, can somebody help please…
in my notes I have…
## Metadata Authors:: [[Justin Erik Halldór Smith]] ItemType:: [[Blog post]]
and I’m tring to get a dataview of those blog posts, or websites, or magazines, etc. I have this dataview
TABLE Title, ItemType, Date from "Zotero mdNotes" WHERE ItemType SORT desc
which gives me this…
Any ideas?
I’m a huge fan of Conan the Barbarian comics, so I’ve started cataloging them. I’ve barely made a dent - I have more than 1,100 more to process. Plus I’m building a compendium of recurring characters, important places, and notable objects. It’s a big project! But I’m re-reading each issue as I catalog them, so I’m having lots of fun 
Hi,
I’ve just started playing around with Dataview and I am having problems with thousands separators (comma’s) in numbers.
I have in-line numbers like 1,234 which are read as two separate numbers 1 and 234.
If I make it 1234 it’s all good but it’s hard to read with large numbers. The only way I’ve found to preserve them is using quotes but then the output is not a number and I can’t do any calculations with it. Even if I could format the output correctly that would be a win.
Sure. Basically, I have a folder People/Friends & Family where I put my TOC (Table of Contents) file and the single people’s notes.
In my “TOC” note, I have a leaflet map, centered on a theoretical “midpoint” of Germany, so I get a nice view, plus a list of people:
---
tags: friends, family
---
[[+Home]]
---
# Friends & Family TOC
This is the Table of Contents of your friends & family.
```leaflet
height: 500px
lat: 51.133333
long: 10.416667
minZoom: 1
maxZoom: 18
defaultZoom: 5
```
The list is sorted by last modified time, newest at top.
```dataview
table birthday as "Birthday", file.ctime as Created, file.mtime as "Last modified"
from "People/Friends & Family"
where file.name != this.file.name
sort file.mtime descending
```
You can then create some different markers in the settings of Obsidian leaflet (check Docs): I made “Friends”, “Family” and “Location” under Additional Map Markers.
Then simply zoom into the map, right-click and create new markers, specifying the map marker type and the linked note, or (quite cumbersome still)
The CSV basically looks like this (check docs):
People/Friends & Family/+Friends & Family TOC.md/real,Family,51.133333,10.416667,Matthias C. Hormann,,
People/Friends & Family/+Friends & Family TOC.md/real,Friends,51.133333,10.416667,Friend 1,,
People/Friends & Family/+Friends & Family TOC.md/real,Location,52.52134162768218,13.41327381161729,Berlin Weltzeituhr,,3f4981d8-1615-4905-9cc4-e4df122215be
If you leave out the GUID in the last column, it gets created by Leaflet automatically. The locations given here are fake values, of course (except for the “Weltzeituhr” in Berlin).
You may need to refresh the note containing the map after import, to make it show all markers.
My “people” notes are really simple and just have the “calculated” links at top:
---
location: [51.133333,10.416667]
birthday: 1970-07-11
tags: friends
---
[[+Friends & Family TOC]]
`= elink("https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=" + this.location[0] + "," + this.location[1], "Google Maps")` `= elink("https://www.google.com/maps/@?api=1&map_action=pano&viewpoint=" + this.location[0] + "," + this.location[1], "Street View")` `= elink("https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&dir_action=navigate&destination=" + this.location[0] + "," + this.location[1], "Route")`
---
# Friend 1
\* `= this.birthday` (`= (date(today) - this.birthday).years + " Jahre"`)
This will later have the correct links and look like this:
Clicking on the “Route” link, for instance, then opens the Google Route Planner in your browser (from which you could click “Send to my smartphone” and get instant navigation):
Hope that helps!
As of version 0.2.17 the tables are back to normal for me. At version 0.2.14 it was “bugged” and a lot of extra space was between rows in a table.
I like your use of Birthdays. Now I want to add a dataview of upcoming dates on my daily notes. No clue how to write that though. Any dataview ninjas have any ideas?
Before I post as a bug in Github, can someone do a quick test?
in frontmatter I have
- - -
datecreated: 2021-04-27
- - -
In a dataview rule I’m trying to use that field: I’ve tried
list “Film/Film Titles”
where datecreated=2021-04-27
where datecreated=“2021-04-27”
where contains(datecreated, “2021-04-27”)
where contains(datecreated, 2021-04-27)
Keep getting 0 results.
Well, it’s possible but really clumsy due to the restricted syntax of Dataview. I wish we had “real” SQL syntax and/or JS.
Let’s say we want a “upcoming birthdays” table for the next two months from now. Crossing year boundaries must be possible (i.e., if you are in December, you also want the January birthdays), and the list sorted. Also, you want to show what birthday it will be.
Warning: This is not elegant, rather clumsy, relies on numerical computations and lots of repeating calculations! This isn’t production-quality code, but just a proof of concept.
You will have to change the desired duration to show in three places in the dataview code block (look for dur(2 months)).
### Upcoming Birthdays
Here are the upcoming birthdays for the next 2 months (until `=date(today) + dur(2 months)`).
table birthday as "Birthday", choice(
date(today).month*100+date(today).day = birthday.month*100+birthday.day,(date(today)-birthday).year,(date(today)-birthday).year+1) as Turns
from "People/Friends & Family"
where file.name != this.file.name and
choice(date(today).month*100+date(today).day > birthday.month*100+birthday.day,
(date(today).year+1)*10000 + birthday.month*100 + birthday.day,
date(today).year*10000 + birthday.month*100 + birthday.day) <= (date(today) + dur(2 months)).year*10000+(date(today) + dur(2 months)).month*100+(date(today) + dur(2 months)).day
sort choice(
date(today).month*100+date(today).day > birthday.month*100+birthday.day,
(date(today).year+1)*10000 + birthday.month*100 + birthday.day,
date(today).year*10000 + birthday.month*100 + birthday.day)
It will look like this:
Have fun! (And hope for a combined SQL and Javascript engine.)
If anyone knows how to simplify this horrible code (and retain full functionality), please let us know!
Try datecreated= date(2021-04-27)
; )
This looks great to me! I presume we need to change the ‘red’ bits for our own purpose? “People/Friends & Family” is a folder, yes?
I am however even less clear what ‘choice’, or ‘date’ should be changed to - hold my hand please!
This should work, although I don’t know if you would have to include the square brackets:
where contains(ItemType, "Blog post")
Yep, “People/Friends & Family” is a folder, but you could use any other legal “from” constructs here like “#people” or whatever.
Disregard the “red bits”—this is just forum code formatting and doesn’t mean anything in this case.
The “choice” constructs are mainly to find if a birthday is already in the past for this year, and to construct different values for the numeric addition (it forms numerical pseudo-dates in the form YYYYMMDD and MMDD for the “birthday is in the past” comparisons).
Regarding the date(today): Yes, it calculates from “now”. If you’d need something else as a reference, like maybe the date part from the file’s title (in case of daily notes), you’d have to make careful changes throughout. And test a lot. 
Thanks for trying Lise, it is still not working for me. I think I will take a break from this one now… it is vexing me something chronic.
Scratch that: I got it working. Very weird tho… cutting’n’paste-ing the field: value from one of the original docs made it work (I also jiggled with the formatting). So the issue must have been some stray non-printing character , or some thing (gremlin?)
TABLE Title, ItemType, Year
FROM #zotero
WHERE ItemType=[[Blog post]]
SORT desc
Boom! I got this one working. Many thanks for your work Moonbase59, much appreciated.