Show sort value as header between groups

[dcoales]

When I sort data by certain fields would it be possible to specify that I would like the data to be shown in groups based on 1 or more of the sort values with the sort value shown above the group as a header. For example if I specified "due date" as a sort field I could add a property called "group fields" and whenever the sort value changes then a blank line would be added followed by a header showing the next value of the sort field followed by the next group of records that have that sort field value.

If there are more than 1 sort field you could specify the number of sort fields to include in the grouping e.g. the following config

sort by due date
sort by priority
sort by description
group fields 1

would for example produce the following

2022-01-01

• Task 1 2022-01-01 priority high
• Task 2 2022-01-01 priority high
• Task 3 2022-01-01 priority low
• Task 4 2022-01-02 priority low

*2022-01-02

• Task 5 2022-01-02

If I changed the group fields value to 2 then the result would be

2022-01-01 priority high

• Task 1 2022-01-01 priority high
• Task 2 2022-01-01 priority high

2022-01-01 priority low

• Task 3 2022-01-01 priority low
• Task 4 2022-01-02 priority low

*2022-01-02

• Task 5 2022-01-02

An option to "hide group fields" would also be nice so that data shown in the header isn't repeated in each task.

[therden]

Hello @dcoales. A "group by" option to use in conjunction with "sort" would be a nice feature, but it is not currently available in Tasks.

Unless/until that changes, you may want to take a look at the Dataview plugin. Last time I checked, Dataview recognized Tasks' emoji triggers for Due and Completed dates (but not Scheduled or Start dates, or Priority emojis.)

You would need to convert the latter attributes, and any others you'd want to select/sort/group by, to Dataview's inline field type -- and manage them manually -- but **Dataview's Javascript API, provides more control over filtering, sorting, grouping, etc. (although, as I recall, not so much control over presentation/formatting of results.)

[claremacrae]

just to note that Grouping has been released for a little while.

https://obsidian-tasks-group.github.io/obsidian-tasks/queries/grouping/

[claremacrae]

So group divides the tasks in to chunks - and then sort sorts that tasks within each of the groups...