Obsidian Attendance

This plugin for Obsidian.md helps you to keep attendance inside of your notes.

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⚠ This plugin is still in early stages of development, expect some bugs and make sure to backup your vault regularly!

How to use this plugin

Create a code block with the attendance type:

```attendance
date: 2022-03-26
title: History Class
query: #person
```

The date, title and query fields are all required.

⚠ If you create multiple attendance lists in the same note, make absolutely sure they have either different "date" ore "title" attributes. Otherwise when you want to update the second attendance list, the plugin will overwrite the first list.

The date field

currently unused

The date field lets you specify the date of the event you want to take attendance for. This field is currently unused, but will be used in the future for exporting attendance lists.

The title field

currently unused

The title field lets you specify the title of the event. This field is currently unused but will be used in the future to allow exporting only certain events. This could for example be set to a specific class name if you are taking attendance for a class.

The query field

The query field lets you specify what notes are considered possible attendees of the event. The list will include all notes that match the query field.

The following query fields are currently supported:

Tags

Example:

query: #person/class-a

This query will match all notes with the #person/class-a tag.

Folders

Example:

query: "people"

This query will match all notes in the people folder.

Links

Example:

query: [[PersonMOC]]

This query will match all notes that are linked from the [[PersonMOC]] note or that link to it.

Combining queries (and, or)

Example:

query: #class-a and [[Students]]

This will only match notes that have the tag #class-a and either link to the [[Students]] note or are linked from it.

Parentheses

When combining more than two queries it is recommended to use parentheses to keep the query readable. If none are explicitly set, the plugin will automatically put the parentheses as follows:

query: (#tag-a and (#tag-b and (#tag-c or #tag-d)))

Saving the attendance state

When you click on one of the three buttons ("present", "absent", "excused"), the codeblock behind the list will be modified to save the attendance state that you selected. The following shows an example of a codeblock with one present and one excused attendee:

```attendance
date: 2022-03-26
title: History Class
query: #person
* [[Ray M. Smart.md]], "present", ""
* [[Winona Philpott.md]], "excused", ""
```

Manually installing the plugin

• Download the main.js, styles.css and manifest.json files from the latest release.
• Create the folder MyVault/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-attendance and put the downloaded files in there.
• Enable the plugin in the community plugins page in the settings.

Contributing

You are more than welcome to contribute to this plugin! You can contribute by:

• Filing issues for bugs you encountered
• Adding to the documentation
• Adding a feature request
• Making a pull request to the code

How to work on the code

• Clone this repo into the folder MyTestVault/.obsidian/obsidian-attendance
• npm i to install dependencies
• npm run dev to start compilation in watch mode.

To conveniently reload the plugin every time you make a change, use the hot-reload plugin.

Improve code quality with eslint

Run npm run lint to see all the errors and npm run lint -- --fix to fix all errors that are automatically fixable.

Releasing new releases

• Update minimum obsidian version in manifest.json.
• Run npm run build && npm run test
• Run npm version [patch, minor, major] to update the version.
• Run git push && git push --tags
• Run gh release create $(cat manifest.json | jq ".version" -r) --generate-notes to create the github release
• Run gh release upload $(cat manifest.json | jq ".version" -r) manifest.json styles.css main.js

Adding your plugin to the community plugin list

• Check https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/blob/master/plugin-review.md
• Publish an initial version.
• Make sure you have a README.md file in the root of your repo.
• Make a pull request at https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases to add your plugin.

API Documentation

See https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api

Code from other plugins

This plugin is inspired and uses code from the following plugins:

• Obsidian Dataview