Feature suggestion: Dataview support user-defined shorthands for data fields

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Dataview currently supports a few emoji-based shorthands for dates (see doc). They are:

  • Due Date: 🗓️YYYY-MM-DD
  • Completed Date: ✅YYYY-MM-DD
  • Created Date: ➕YYYY-MM-DD

A useful feature would be to allow users to expand the set of shorthands. For example, what if a Dataview had a setting to specify emoji - field name pairs? Users can then specify the emoji shorthand-field name combinations that they need.

In my specific case, I’m trying to cross-utilize Dataview and Tasks plugin. Tasks plugin uses other emojis for Scheduled and Start dates. If the above feature existed, I could go in to Dataview settings and specify:
:hourglass_flowing_sand: dddd-dd-dd to be [scheduled::dddd-dd-dd]
:flight_departure: dddd-dd-dd to be [start::dddd-dd-dd]
where d = 0-9.

This would enable users to do much more than adapt Dataview to other plugins, such as Tasks. Users could, as they want, create their own shorthand emojis for data fields.

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This section is for Obsidian core features, not community plugins, but you can post this as feature-request issue on DataView’s Github page. (I’d also rephrase the title as a non-question since you know the answer already.)

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