Combining conditions

[aagha]

I saw this post on how there's currently no support for OR's.

I'm wondering if someone has figured out an alternative syntax that could be used. I have tasks for People in our weekly meeting notes and then I might reference a tag using their name in other notes.

As such, I'd ideally like to have the following:

`

short mode
not done
path includes Peter OR tags includes #Peter

`

Instead, I'm now creating two separate blocks:, but they look visually different:

`

short mode
not done
path includes Peter

and

short mode
not done
tags includes #Peter

`
which displays as:

[claremacrae]

Hello @aagha

I saw this post on how there's currently no support for OR's.

Yes, the answer marked as correct there is correct. There is not (yet) support for using any kind of ORing to combine queries, and the workaround is exactly what you have done, to create multiple tasks code blocks.

I'm wondering if someone has figured out an alternative syntax that could be used. I have tasks for People in our weekly meeting notes and then I might reference a tag using their name in other notes.

There isn't an alternative syntax, but as you mentioned the appearance, here are some ways to make the results look more coherent.

Your original, with my test data

```tasks
short mode
not done
path includes Peter
```

```tasks
short mode tasks
not done
tags includes #Peter
```

With task counts removed, to make more coherent

```tasks
short mode
not done
path includes Peter
hide task count
```

```tasks
short mode tasks
not done
tags includes #Peter
hide task count
```

And with a callout added, to group together

> [!TODO]
> ```tasks
> short mode
> not done
> path includes Peter
> hide task count
> ```
> 
> ```tasks
> short mode tasks
> not done
> tags includes #Peter
> hide task count
> ```

And with a labelled callout added

> [!TODO] Peter
> ```tasks
> short mode
> not done
> path includes Peter
> hide task count
> ```
> 
> ```tasks
> short mode tasks
> not done
> tags includes #Peter
> hide task count
> ```

Styling the callouts

You can write your own callouts if you wish, to have more control over the styling and more meaning to the callout names:

https://help.obsidian.md/How+to/Use+callouts

[aagha]

Well that's a fantastic suggestion! Thank you!

[claremacrae]

Boolean searches have just been released, in Tasks 1.9.0.
See the docs: Combining Filters