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Fields as Expressions

See original GitHub issue

What happened?

According documentation, “if the field name has spaces, punctuation, or other non-letter/number characters, then you can refer to it using Dataview’s simplified name, which is all lower case with spaces replaced with “-”.” If so, First field becomes first-field.

However, there is a difference between frontmatter and inline fields.

The rule declared in the documentation works only for inline fields, not for frontmatter fields. For these cases it’s seems necessary using this syntax:

row["First field"] in DQL queries
this["First field"] in inline DQL
(for JS I don’t know)

DQL

Field in frontmatter

TABLE row["First field"]
FROM "folder"

=this["First field"]

Inline field

TABLE first-field
FROM "folder"

=this.first-field

JS

No response

Dataview Version

0.4.21

Obsidian Version

0.12.19

OS

MacOS

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

blacksmithgucommented, Dec 18, 2021

Ah, oversight on my part w.r.t. frontmatter. I forgot you could have spaces in keys and so I didn’t canonicalize them - I’ve fixed this for next release.

0reactions

ooker777commented, Dec 15, 2022

@s-blu I mean, is there a resource to read more on the row object?

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