Dataview Table does not display correctly in specific file

[saurerzipfel]

What I’m trying to do

I am using the Vault Template from GitHub - SoRobby/ObsidianStarterVault: Organize your Universe: An Obsidian starter vault for everyone, bridging the gap between ideas and actions which I really like. On the Notes Dashboard there should be a dataview table which displays all Note-Files. This does not display properly. On the Journal Dashboard for example there is nearly the same table which displays the journal entries perfectly.

Things I have tried

Debugging the code above the Collection of general notes segment, didn’t find any errors.
There are two pictures, one of the correct visualtisation, one of the buggimg one

[holroy]

It’s very hard for anyone to guess what your queries look like…

[saurerzipfel]

Fair.

Non functional Notes Query:

for (let group of dv.pages(‘“Notes” and !#dashboard’).groupBy(p => p.note)) {
dv.table([“Name”, “Description”, “Tags”],
group.rows
.sort(k => k.file.mtime, ‘desc’)
.map(k => [
k.file.link,
k[‘description’],
dv.span(k.file.tags.values.toString().replaceAll(“,”, " "))
]))}

Functional Journal Query:
for (let group of dv.pages(‘“Journal” and !#dashboard’).groupBy(p => p.entry)) {
dv.table([“Entry”, “Significant event”],
group.rows
.sort(k => k.name, ‘desc’)
.map(k => [
k.file.link,
k[‘event’]
]))}

[holroy]

Your error is most likely related to that dv.span() when you’re trying to map table entries. That’s not the correct way to do that, as the dv.span() constructs a HTML element in the current container, and not a row entry for the table.

For starters you could try with simply replacing that part with:

dv.table(["Name", "Description", "Tags"],
group.rows
.sort(k => k.file.mtime, ‘desc’)
.map(k => [
k.file.link,
k['description'],
k.file.etags.join(" ")
]))}

And see if that doesn’t provide you with some values for that query.

[saurerzipfel]

So I just tried it.

for (let group of dv.pages('"Notes" and !#dashboard').groupBy(p => p.note)) {
	dv.table(["Name", "Description", "Tags"], 
		group.rows 
			.sort(k => k.file.mtime, 'desc')
			.map(k => [
			k.file.link, 
			k['description'],
			k.file.etags.join(" ")
			]))}

This still only gives me these strange looking bars, like you can see in the picture of the Notes Home. These bars however contain a (due to there size) invisible link to the files but I dont get why it does not just show it like in the Journal Entries

[holroy]

Do this query return anything for you?

```dataviewjs

for(let group of dv.pages().where(p => p.file.etags.length > 2).groupBy(p => p.file.folder).limit(5)) {
  console.log(group)
  dv.table(["File", "Folder", "Tags"], 
    group.rows
      .sort(k => k.file.folder, 'desc')
      .map(k => [
        k.file.link,
        k.file.folder,
        k.file.etags.join(" ")
      ])
      .limit(5)
    )
}
```

I know it’s what you’re asking for, but there is something strange happening at your end, so we need to start somewhere. In my test vault this displays like:

If it doesn’t produce an output, then your issues are not related to the query, but more to something else…

[saurerzipfel]

I guess it’s related to something else. Can’t wrap my head around why it works on a different file with (nearly) the same query.

The code you suggest just returns the bars in a more spaced way.

Whole page
Here is the whole code page, but the other code elements work as the should on this and on every other dahsboard in my vault.

---
banner: "![[banner-notes.jpg]]"
cssclass: cards
date_created: 2023-07-05
date_modified: 2023-07-19
description: Collection of general atomic notes.
document_type: dashboard
include_in_navbar: true
navbar_name: Notes
tags: dashboard note
---

```dataviewjs
let navbar = [];
let loadingMessage = dv.el("span", "**Loading navigation...**", {attr: {style: "font-size:13px; color:gray"}});

let allPages = dv.pages("#dashboard").sort(page => page.file.folder, "asc");
let filteredPages = allPages.filter(p => 
    p.file.tags.values.includes("#dashboard") && p?.include_in_navbar == true
);

for(let page of filteredPages){
    let navItem = '';
    let navName = 'Untitled';
    let navLink = '';

    if(page.navbar_name === undefined){
        navName = page.file.name;
    } else {
        navName = page.navbar_name;
    }
    navLink = page.file.path;

    // Format the nav  item link
    if(dv.current().file.path === page.file.path){
        navItem = `**[[${navLink}|${navName}]]**`
    } else {
        navItem = `[[${navLink}|${navName}]]`
    }

    navbar.push(navItem)
}

dv.paragraph(navbar.join(' | '))

if(filteredPages.values.length > 0){
    loadingMessage.remove();
}

Notes Home

Collection of general atomic notes.

name + Add note
type note(Notes/untitled) template
action general/Empty page
class tailwind-button-white

Collection of general notes

for(let group of dv.pages().where(p => p.file.etags.length > 2).groupBy(p => p.file.folder).limit(5)) {
  console.log(group)
  dv.table(["File", "Folder", "Tags"], 
    group.rows
      .sort(k => k.file.folder, 'desc')
      .map(k => [
        k.file.link,
        k.file.folder,
        k.file.etags.join(" ")
      ])
      .limit(5)
    )
}

---

let navbar = [];
let loadingMessage = dv.el("span", "**Loading navigation...**", {attr: {style: "font-size:13px; color:gray"}});

let allPages = dv.pages("#dashboard").sort(page => page.file.folder, "asc");
let filteredPages = allPages.filter(p => 
    p.file.tags.values.includes("#dashboard") && p?.include_in_navbar == true
);

for(let page of filteredPages){
    let navItem = '';
    let navName = 'Untitled';
    let navLink = '';

    if(page.navbar_name === undefined){
        navName = page.file.name;
    } else {
        navName = page.navbar_name;
    }
    navLink = page.file.path;

    // Format the nav  item link
    if(dv.current().file.path === page.file.path){
        navItem = `**[[${navLink}|${navName}]]**`
    } else {
        navItem = `[[${navLink}|${navName}]]`
    }

    navbar.push(navItem)
}

dv.paragraph(navbar.join(' | '))

if(filteredPages.values.length > 0){
    loadingMessage.remove();
}

[holroy]

Without any preparation, just brutally copying your code (which you should have surrounded by four backticks so that the triple backticks in your note would display properly in a forum post), I got this output:

In other words, the code works, but you’ve got something strange happening.

To get somewhere I’d updated all my community plugins, and all of the themes, and see if that makes a difference. If not, you need to start disabling plugins to see which one changes something at your end.

[saurerzipfel]

Okay, so the problem comes from minimal theme. I will try do find a workaround for that.

Thanks!!

Edit: It was the minimal theme update that fixed it, I feel dumb