How to colour thing differently in graph view

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### What I’m trying to do

Recently I’ve been using Obsidian to help me organize part of the RPG system I’m working on, and one thing I did was create a new folder to separate the attributes from the creatures, but when I tried colouring it differently than the creature folder on the Graph View, it didn’t show it, any ideas on how I could fix it?

### Things I have tried

I’ve tried using paths to fix it, but it didn’t do it, please know that I’m kind of new to Obsidian, and that any tip is welcome :)!

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It would help if you could share more details about your folder structure, what your graph currently looks like, and what you want it to look like.

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Oh yeah, I’m sorry for not posting it altogether, I’ve recently been moving and it consumed me, I’ll post it right when I have time

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The picture above is the entire graph view, the one on the right is part of a group “A”, and the one on the left is part of a group “B” (like shown below)

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The idea is to make B have a different colour than A.

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Is this what you want?

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Yes!
Also, sorry if it’s something really easy to do, I’m really a starter to Obsidian

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And I’ve already done that, see:

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No worries at all; asking questions is always welcome.

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So, just to clarify what you issue is, left (B) should be completely yellow? and right (A) should be completely red ?

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Yes
If it helps, the green-ish dots are tags

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I’m not sure if this is universally true but at least for me, I usually need to put the path in quotes for it to work, ie.

:yellow_circle: | path: “A”

:red_circle: | path: “B”

If you are trying to also get the tags to be a specific color, you need the Extended Graph plug-in for that.

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I’ll try that, thanks!

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Quotes are only necessary when searching for complete phrases (Search - Obsidian Help).

In the core Graph View you can also create groups for tags to apply a specific color.

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Okay.
With the Tags toggle you can choose whether tags are shown or hidden in Graph View. You can also assign a colored group to any tag.

If the group colors still aren’t displaying correctly, I guess the first group is being applied to all of them, because the note names contain an A. Try using path:A/ and path:B/. This should filter only the files inside the specific folders.

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It solved it! Thank you!