[Help!] Tasks Query Returns '0 tasks'

[Jmaynard98]

Hi All,

I'm looking to move to Obsidian from Roam.
Tasks management is key for me, so I have been trying to experiment with tasks.

I have created dummy tasks and tried to call them with a tasks code block; however, the code block keeps returning '0 tasks'.
I'm probably doing something incredibly foolish - can anyone give me a hand please??

(see attached)

[claremacrae]

can anyone give me a hand please??

With pleasure.

Please paste in as text here your tasks, and your tasks query, so that I can paste them in to Tasks and experiment with them.

Please also paste in a screenshot of your Tasks options.

Many thanks.

[Jmaynard98]

Hi Clare, thanks so much !

Please see below the pasted tasks & tasks queries from my previous message.

I noticed that backticks and code in the queries is not carried forward as plain text when publishing this comment, so I have pasted them onto a note file and attached this alongside images of my settings.

Dummy tasks:
[[Progress Meeting]]
- [ ] JM to go produce report 📅 2022-12-04
- This needs to happen asap
- [x] JM needs to have lunch too 📅 2022-12-04 ✅ 2022-12-04
- [ ] JM to figure out how to use tasks ⏫ 📅 2022-12-04

Task code block 1:

Task code block 2:

done

Obsidian Tasks Issue.txt

[claremacrae]

Hi @Jmaynard98, thank you, that was really helpful.

I get the same behaviour as you, no tasks found, when pasting in the following as tasks:

Dummy tasks:
	[[Progress Meeting]]
		- [ ] JM to go produce report 📅 2022-12-04 
			- This needs to happen asap
		- [x] JM needs to have lunch too 📅 2022-12-04 ✅ 2022-12-04
		- [ ] JM to figure out how to use tasks ⏫  📅 2022-12-04

When I change the text to look like this, Tasks does find the tasts:

Dummy tasks:
	[[Progress Meeting]]
- [ ] JM to go produce report 📅 2022-12-04 
    - This needs to happen asap
- [x] JM needs to have lunch too 📅 2022-12-04 ✅ 2022-12-04
- [ ] JM to figure out how to use tasks ⏫  📅 2022-12-04

I think that what is going on is that by nesting the tasks like that, they have tripped over one or more of the known limitations in Tasks that are listed in the Getting Started section.

https://obsidian-tasks-group.github.io/obsidian-tasks/getting-started/

I am looking at improving the formatting and layout of the various 'known-limitations'-type regions of the documentation, but these should give you some good pointers.