Bug report

What happened?

Dataview is not finding files that match the criteria from the code.

I have YAML data that has a ‘project’ field and then this contains a project name ie:

project: [[project name here]]

This is the code I have:

TABLE file.cday AS Date, meeting_type AS Type, meeting_summary AS Summary WHERE contains(project, “project name here”) SORT Date ASC

It is finding some of the files, but not others. There is literally no difference in the case or wording in the files it is finding vs the ones it isn’t. I have no idea how to resolve this issue.

DQL

TABLE file.cday AS Date, meeting_type AS Type, meeting_summary AS Summary 
WHERE contains(project, "project name here")
SORT Date ASC

JS

No response

Dataview Version

0.5.47

Obsidian Version

0.15.9

OS

Windows

[blacksmithgu]

In this specific case, the issue is that links are not text and you can’t use contains on them - convert them to text first:

WHERE contains(string(project), "project name here"))

[AB1908]

Similarly, you must use string(field) when doing the sort to sort correctly. You are running into type mismatches. You can also view the contents you’re querying by adding a string(key) to your query, in addition to key. You will notice that one has the appearance of a link while the other is a simple string.