obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks 4.8.0

4.8.0: See total task counts, 'group by backlink' now hyperlinks and easier scripting access to paths and filenames

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What's Changed

🌟 Most Notable

Dependencies have been updated. Please restart Obsidian after updating the plugin. Thank you.

• Added more query file properties
  • query.file.pathWithoutExtension
  • query.file.filenameWithoutExtension
  • docs: Values for Query File Properties
• Added more task file properties
  • task.file.pathWithoutExtension
  • task.file.filenameWithoutExtension
  • docs: Values for Task File Properties
• Add hyperlink to group by backlink headings (thanks, @ilandikov)
  • As well as jumping to the relevant heading, it also shows a hover preview of the section containing the task(s)
• Add total task count to show task count display
  • If a limit instruction means not all matching tasks are shown, the total tasks count is shown, such as 50 of 686 tasks.
  • This is useful when combined with limit 0 if you just want to see how many tasks match your query.
  • docs: Limiting

Main changes

Here are the most notable user-visible changes, and the more significant internal ones.

🌟 Features

• feat: Scripting enables removing file extension from path and filename properties by @claremacrae in #2288
• feat: group by backlink headings link to location & show hover previews by @ilandikov in #2285
• feat: show task count now shows total, if 'limit' applied by @claremacrae in #2301

🛠️ Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump rrule from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 by @dependabot in #2120
• chore(deps): bump word-wrap from 1.2.3 to 1.2.5 by @dependabot in #2291
• chore(deps-dev): bump ts-jest from 29.1.0 to 29.1.1 by @dependabot in #2122
• chore(deps): bump boon-js from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 by @dependabot in #2121
• build(deps): bump @adobe/css-tools from 4.2.0 to 4.3.1 by @dependabot in #2240
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #2248

🛠️ Behind the scenes

• chore: Fix error TS5055: Cannot write file ...tests/global-setup.js by @claremacrae in #2277
• chore: automate detection of circular code dependencies by @claremacrae in #2295
• chore: Specify supported node versions in package.json by @axelson in #2065
• refactor: Introduce GlobalQuery class: the plugin uses a singleton. by @ilandikov in #2215
• refactor: Remove recently-added cyclic dependencies. by @claremacrae in #2279
• refactor: Separate settings out of GlobalFilter by @claremacrae in #2282
• refactor: remove unused return value in createTasksList() by @ilandikov in #2280
• refactor: Add getInstance() to GlobalFilter & make all else non-static by @claremacrae in #2283
• refactor: Convert one use of GlobalFilter.getInstance() to instance by @claremacrae in #2286
• refactor: remove cyclic dependencies & optional parameter in TaskLineRenderer.ts by @ilandikov in #2284
• refactor: extract data attribute names dictionary from getComponentDataAttribute() by @ilandikov in #2255
• refactor: remove destructured object and return in createTaskList() by @ilandikov in #2293
• refactor: remove destructured types in Query.ts by @ilandikov in #2292
• refactor: move code for task counts text to QueryResult by @claremacrae in #2300

New Contributors

• @axelson made their first contribution in #2065

Full Changelog (including changes too small to note above, and that do not affect the behaviour of the plugin itself):

• 4.7.1...4.8.0

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