What I’m trying to do I am trying to search/filter my files according to the state of a checkbox property, i. e. the true or false value. Things I have tried When searching for the checkbox property key without a value, the search works correctly and outputs all files that are annotated with the …

Does one of these help? ## 2 Checkbox ```query [checkbox1:] ``` ```query [checkbox2: false] ``` ```query [checkbox3: "True"] ``` ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link FROM "" WHERE Checkbox2 = "false" ``` ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link FROM "" WHERE contains(Checkbox3, "true") ``` …

The first one works normally, as described in my post. The second and third do not work, I have tried these already. I’ve just installed the dataview plugin to test the last 2. The checkbox property appears to be a boolean (and the key name is “done” btw). This works: TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link …

I’m also noticing this. I have a checkbox property in my files. In the search and graph view, [eligible] and [eligible:] works. However, I can’t seem to filter the files based on whether it is true or not. [eligible:true] doesn’t seem to work, which it should according to the docs. [image] …

For now, try putting true outside the brackets for a text search. [image] Task Property Search Help Searching only ["downloaded"] brings up the true and empty (null) values: [Screenshot 2023-09-14 070327] And searching ["downloaded"] true (with true outside the brackets…

I have another checkbox property inside my metadata, so writing true outside shows results for both the properties when I only want to target one.

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ariehen September 27, 2023, 3:18am 7

Properties: Support searching for Boolean/Checkbox state like [completed:true] Feature archive

Add support in the query engine for searching notes based on Checkbox properties (Boolean) state (true/false). Example [completed:true] or [completed:false] Right now (Obsidian V1.4.13), only text (string) and list (of strings) are supported. Related FR:

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