Why isn't this Dataview query working?

I’ve been working on implementing parts and pieces of Nick Milo’s Ideaverse into my Obsidian vault, and some of that has literally just been copy-and-pasting his notes/files and making adjustments so they make sense for me. One such instance is I copied his “Efforts” note: it has headers for 4 different levels and then within each heading is a dataview query that pulls up all of the notes in the corresponding folder.

Literally, all I did is copy his note, so the dataview should be working, but keeps coming up blank!

I made sure there are notes in the corresponding folder, and that at least a few of them so far have the “rank” property. I’ve also double- and triple-checked that my Dataview settings are the same as in the Ideaverse vault; the only difference is our date format, but I don’t believe that would affect this query, since the date doesn’t appear anywhere. I really don’t understand why it works in the Ideaverse vault (which I downloaded to my computer) but not in my own vault.

For reference/comparison, here’s the same thing in the Ideaverse vault (where it’s working properly.)

Screenshots are fine, but for next time when asking for code help, pasting the code in a code block is recommended to help folks copy-paste and identify the issue quicker (hopefully).


Try changing your FROM "/Efforts/Ongoing" to FROM "Efforts/Ongoing" (no leading / ).

 > [!Box]+ ### ♻️ Ongoing
 > ```dataview
 > TABLE WITHOUT ID
 > file.link as "",
 > rank as "Rank"
 > FROM "Efforts/Ongoing"
 > SORT rank desc
 > ```

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That makes sense, I’ll keep that in mind!

I did try that as well and still no luck. :confused:

I fiddled with it a little bit and I seem to have had some sort of minor typo in the folder name (Efforts/Ongoing) and it’s working now!

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