Dataview: this.path return - (dash)

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Things I have tried

Listing the entire file such as with

LIST file

The path is displayed correctly but selecting only the path:

LIST file.path

Will simply display - (dash)

What I’m trying to do

I have a query that runs through files based on a tag. The file with the query also has it but I wish to excluded itself from the query

Example


```dataview

LIST
FROM ""
WHERE econtains(file.tags, "#sometag") AND file.path != this.path (tried with file != this as well but no luck)
SORT file.name ASC



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file point to the implicit fields at page level.
If you want a comparison with the path of the current file, you can use the prefix this… but you need to point again to the file level data, i.e., this.file.path (not this.path).

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You are right. I do have a this.file usecase elsewhere but forgot about it. Just started out with Obsidian and going through plenty of things so not all things are sticking yet.

Thanks for the quick reply!

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About the query, for the tag filter you can use FROM:

LIST
FROM #tag
WHERE file.path != this.file.path
SORT file.name ASC

edited: sorry, I wrote commas. don’t need them (only for folders).

5

That is a lot more elegant thanks again

And yes I just tried it and noticed it only worked without quotes hehe

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