Filter by value of a dataview inline field

[kenNash]

Hi taskers!

I have a question that could be related to filter by YAML tag, but I can't get a solution from there…

What I'd like to achieve

In a note containing a dataview inline field like

Tag: #a-tag

I'd like to collect all tasks from folder "Daily Notes" containing the #a-tag tag programatically reading the value of the Tag inline field. Maybe looking at what I tried so far makes my request easier to understand (sorry, not a native speaker here…).

What I tried

Tag:: #a-tag

```tasks
path includes Daily Notes
filter by function task.tags.includes(this.Tag)
```

Any idea?
TIA

[claremacrae]

I am confused by your example - as it uses inconsistent colons:

Tag: #a-tag
Tag:: #a-tag

It sounds like are you requesting this:

• Ability to add custom fields, with own Emoji and Dataview signifiers, and full integration with Tasks #2920

It is currently closed as not planned, but feel free to upvote it anyway.

[kenNash]

Oh I'm sorry, it should have been consistently Tag:: #a-tag.

And… I'm sorry again, I'm not sure Ability to add custom fields, with own Emoji and Dataview signifiers, and full integration with Tasks #2920 has to do with what I'm asking here.
(My fault for sure!)

One more piece of information, to clarify my request: the query should find any task of the form

- [ ] #task #a-task This is just an example

[claremacrae]

That is already possible. Search the docs for Tags.

[kenNash]

Thank you @claremacrae.

I've read (again) the docs for Tags, but unfortunately I can't figure out how to solve my problem.

The following code

path includes Daily Notes
tags include #a-tag

produces the result I want, except I'd like the query to read which tag to look for by reading the Tag inline field instead.

[claremacrae]

This is getting really confusing - or at least, I am getting really confused! 😄

One more piece of information, to clarify my request: the query should find any task of the form

• #task #a-task This is just an example

The correct search for the above is indeed what you quoted:

tags include #a-tag

produces the result I want, except I'd like the query to read which tag to look for by reading the Tag inline field instead.

Tasks does not support inline fields, as mentioned (or implied) in the link I shared above:

• Ability to add custom fields, with own Emoji and Dataview signifiers, and full integration with Tasks #2920

[claremacrae]

Except of course that you can use a description search, like:

description includes Tag:: #a-tag

You would need to be consistent with the spacing, unless you wanted to make it more flexible using a regular expression search to allow variable numbers of spaces after the ::.

[kenNash]

OK, I got it!

The following code gets the job done. ✨

const query = `
path includes Daily Notes
tags include ${dv.current().Tag}`;

dv.paragraph('```tasks\n' + query + '\n```');

Thank you for your time and kindness!