Excluding Property with Multiple Values

[a-cub3d]

I have a property called "level" and its a text property. I want to exclude tasks that the level is month, quarter, or year.

I have tried:

filter by function ! task.file.property('level').includes('month')

(this doesn't work, so i didn't bother to try to combine the quarter or year filter.

I have tried

filter by function task.file.property('level') !== 'month'

(this does work, but i can't combine it:

I have tried to combine by:

(function task.file.property('level') !== 'month') OR (function task.file.property('level') !== 'year')

but that doesn't work.

I've tried to do

(function task.file.property('level') !== 'month' || 'year')

and that also didn't work.

Any help would be appreciated!

[claremacrae]

I'd like to be able to help with this, but I'm struggling a bit to separate out the example searches from the descriptive text.

So I've edited the text for readability...

this doesn't work

Can you be more specific.

It's generally impossible to answer 'this doesn't work' questions, without knowing precisely what the actual behaviour was....

• an error message?
  • what error message?
• too many tasks?
  • what is the simplest markdown file that matches the query, when you wanted it not to?
• too few tasks?
  • what is the simplest markdown file that does not the query, when you wanted it to?

[a-cub3d]

Thank you for the feedback! I want to thank you for taking the time to reply, as it is, I figured it out, but I wanted to share with you more details in case someone else runs into this and wants to know what I did:

Here's my original query:

not done
(no scheduled date) AND (no due date)
group by filename
group by heading
short mode

The results show as expected. All tasks without no scheduled or due date will show. I later created a few files with "Goals" in them, and I wanted to exclude these from the query above, as I intend it to be my Backlog. I want to exclude files that have "Year" "Quarter" or "Month" in a property I created called "level".

I tried this query, and it successfully excludes my "Month" goals:

not done
(no scheduled date) AND (no due date)
filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Month'
group by filename
group by heading
short mode

However, when I try to combine it to include Quarter or Year as well:

not done
(no scheduled date) AND (no due date)
filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Month' OR filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Quarter' OR filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Year'
group by filename
group by heading
short mode

I get this error:

Tasks query: Error: Failed parsing expression "task.file.property('level') !=='Month' OR filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Quarter' OR filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Year'".
The error message was:
    "SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier 'OR'"
Problem line: "filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Month' OR filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Quarter' OR filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Year'"

If I place parenthesis around, it does not give me an error, but it does not filter my results:

not done
(no scheduled date) AND (no due date)
(filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Month') OR (filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Quarter') OR (filter by function task.file.property('level') !=='Year')
group by filename
group by heading
short mode

All this to say, it needed to be an AND command and it works like a charm.

[claremacrae]

(I formatted the error message for readability)

I'm glad you figured out - thanks for reporting back.