using editing form reorders fields after the changes are saved. breaks later sorting query

[pcause]

Expected Behavior

I have tasks that look like the following:

• 13:00 #tasks some meeting .....

when i open with the tasks form the #tasks isn't visible but after a change to description and save I get this:

• #tasks 13:00 changed meeting description

I use sort on description to get my timed items displayed in order. sort of a replacement for the out of date daily planner. I would have expected the #tasks not to be first.

A solution would be to have an option to put the #tasks tag at the end of the description.

Current behaviour

the #tasks tag is always placed at the start

Steps to reproduce

see above, just edit the sdescription

Which Operating Systems are you using?

• Android
• iPhone/iPad
• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Obsidian Version

0.15.9

Tasks Plugin Version

1.11.1

Checks

• I have tried it with all other plugins disabled and the error still occurs

[claremacrae]

This sounds very familiar, I'm pretty sure we've had requests for this kind of thing already - putting the global filter at the end.

@pcause Please could you search for duplicate discussions and issues, and if one exists, upvote it and close this one?

But one thing I don't understand: Do you have a global filter #task? I thought that the global filter prefix did not contribute to the sort order? So maybe there is a different fundamental cause?

Is the crux of the problem that the global filter is being included in the sort order, when it should be ignored???

I mean, it sounds like you are unhappy with the sort order, but are proposing a solution which is unrelated to the sort order?

What have I misunderstood? 😄

@AnnaKornfeldSimpson Even though this sounds like a feature request - which should go in Discussions - I suggest not doing anything with it until we understand what the best solution is, and whether it is really

• a duplicate
• a new feature request (unlikely)
• or an alternative solution (fixing the sort order) to previous requests for the same feature!

(My head hurts!! 🤯)

[AnnaKornfeldSimpson]

@pcause I suspect the workaround for you may be to not use the form to edit task descriptions. Thanks to the newish auto-suggest feature, which can add all the emoji for me, I personally almost never use the form anymore on Windows! Might that work for you or is there a reason you prefer to use the form for edits?

Please do confirm that #task is your global filter here!

[claremacrae]

@pcause Please could you also show us a screenshot of your Tasks settings?

I am wondering if it is some combination of these settings:

I wonder whether you have 'Global task filter' enabled, but 'Remove global filter from description' disabled?

That's the only reason I can think that the #task tag might be being taken in to account in the sort order.

In which case, a workaround requiring no code changes would be to turn on 'Remove global filter from description'.

[claremacrae]

@pcause cancel this:

This sounds very familiar, I'm pretty sure we've had requests for this kind of thing already - putting the global filter at the end.

Yes, it is a duplicate of #147 - which links to other requests as well.

So I'm converting this to a Discussion/Q&A - to get to the bottom of what is going on with your setup.

[claremacrae]

I've removed the bug tag for now. I think it is likely that Tasks is behaving as intended, and it's a question of the combination of settings.

[pcause]

no problem. i get that

[claremacrae]

no problem. i get that

We would still like to help you get the desired behaviour, if you have time to answer the questions above @pcause

[claremacrae]

We would still like to help you get the desired behaviour, if you have time to answer the questions above @pcause

Closing as, as far as I can tell, there isn't really sufficient info...