Dataview query to display notes with a deadline during a quarter

[nolandofuzzy]

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What I’m trying to do

I am trying to create a dataview query that displays all files with a deadline that falls during a given quarter. Each of the files has a deadline for a month during that quarter. The name of the file is the quarter. So for example example, I’ll have a file named 2023-Q4, and I want it to show files with a deadline 2023-10, 2023-11, and 2023-12.

Things I have tried

So far I have tried using date format without much luck. Here is my query so far:

dataview
TABLE dateformat(date(Scheduled), "q") AS Scheduled
WHERE dateformat(date(Scheduled) = dateformat(date(this.file.name), "q")

[holroy]

What format are you using for Scheduled?

If it’s in the recognised format of YYYY-MM-DD, then your statement should rather look like:

WHERE dateformat(Scheduled, "yyyy-Qq") = this.file.name

[nolandofuzzy]

for some reason when I use this nothing turns up. I have scheduled:: 2023-12-01 in my note

[nolandofuzzy]

@holroy

WHERE dateformat(Scheduled, "yyyy-Qq") = this.file.name

It somewhat works the problem is I have the date setup for the week notes as 2023-W45 for example. I can’t get dateformat to recognize the W

[holroy]

I’m not quite sure I’m following this last step related to week notes, but dateformat() requires a full date not just a partial date as given using something like “2023-W48”. However, we could use date(text, format) to transform it. So try doing:

WHERE dateformat( date(Scheduled, "kkkk-'W'W"), "yyyy-Qq" ) = this.file.name

Or is it the file.name which could become 2023-W48 so you’d rather need to change that into something like:

WHERE dateformat( Scheduled, "yyyy-Qq" ) =
    dateformat( this.file.name, "kkkk-'W'W"), "yyyy-Qq" )

Hope this helps, and that I’m not missing the target completely.