Task metadata inheritance bug

What happened?

Ever since the 0.5 update, my dataviewjs snippet that gives me the list of actionable items returns a different result.

It appears as though the tasks do not inherit metadata from the page nor the parent tasks.

Before, I was able to have the following page:

[defer:: 2022-09-01]
- [ ] (a) this task is deferred till september
- [ ] (b) these though are until the 15th [defer:: 2022-09-15]
    - [ ] (c) pay credit card bill
    - [ ] (d) pay netflix bill

And the following would happen:

• (a) would have task.defer == ‘2022-09-01’
• (b), ©, and (d) would have task.defer == ‘2022-09-15’

This happens on all my devices: Windows PC, macbook pro, android phone and iPad.

DQL

No response

JS

const pages = dv.pages('"todo/dataview test"')
const now = DateTime.now().set({ hour: 0, minute: 0 })
const actionable = pages
	.file
	.tasks
	.filter(t => !t.defer || now > dv.date(t.defer))
	.filter(t => !t.due || (
		!t.defer && now > dv.date(t.due).minus({ day: 7 })
	))
	.filter(t => !t.fullyCompleted)
	.sort(t => t.due || '3000-12-12', 'asc')

dv.taskList(actionable, true)

Dataview Version

0.5.31

Obsidian Version

0.14.6

Device

MacOS, iPad, Android phone

OS

macOS 12.3.1

[blacksmithgu]

More specifically, task inheritance from the parent file is only a Dataview feature - for DataviewJS, you should use

.mutate(t => t.defer = t.defer ?? dv.page(t.path).defer)

[AB1908]

Seems it’s not an issue then. I’ll go ahead and close it.