Can't seem to filter by due dates at all

[ninjaa]

I can't seem to get any results for this query

tags include sl-votingui
due before in 2 days

Explanation looks great

Explanation of the global query:

  tags include task

  No grouping instructions supplied.

  No sorting instructions supplied.

Explanation of this Tasks code block query:

  tags include sl-votingui

  due before in 2 days =>
    due date is before 2024-11-27 (Wednesday 27th November 2024)

  No grouping instructions supplied.

  No sorting instructions supplied.

And the individual tasks look just like this

[#task](app://obsidian.md/index.html#task) 📅 2024-11-25 ⏫ create a table of topics [#sl-votingui](app://obsidian.md/index.html#sl-votingui) (2024-11-24)

I am on Mac OS Sequioa 15.1.1 (24B2091)
Obsidian Version 1.7.7 (Installer 1.7.7)
Tasks version 7.14.0

how can I debug further? Has this issue been seen before? Please advise

In System Settings my dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. No date comparisons seem to work on any dates

[claremacrae]

That doesn’t look like a task line to me.

To debug it, you can try a tasks code block with just this line in (for safety) so it shows lots of your tasks, or all of them, depending on the vault size.

limit 300

Once you have confirmed that your task lines are being read, you add lines like the following, in order to visualise how your task lines are being parsed.

group by tags
group by due

You should also edit your task line in the Tasks modal to confirm that the fields are being edited.

Or better still, start by creating tasks using the Modal, then you will know what valid tasks look like.

[claremacrae]

Please also look in the Tasks docs for the page about Auto Suggest, and read its explanations about the importance of the order of fields on task lines. That may well be your problem.

[claremacrae]

Closing as no reply...

[claremacrae]

Closing as no reply...

After closing, I got a notification of a deleted comment:

oh no i still have this issue

I believe I answered the following original questions quite thoroughly:

how can I debug further? Has this issue been seen before? Please advise

@ninjaa If you have been through all the advice above, and the problem remains, then please do the following, to enable further investigation:

1. Create the simplest query that shows the problem - paste it here as text
2. Add an explain line to it
3. Paste in here a screenshot of the results of that query, so I can see the full explanation
4. Paste in here as text the markdown of a task line that you expected the search to find, but it didn’t.

[claremacrae]

(typo above fixed: exolain -> explain)

[aditya-tribe]

I switched from windows to mac and the problem went away on my new personal computer 🤷
Thank for being so proactive. I'll reopen this ticket if I have time to debug further.

[claremacrae]

Thank you for the update.