Syntax autocomplete definitions

1

For the “draft” type, there a way to
a) set a queryTagFilter for tag OR tag?
b) limit drafts returned to the inbox?

Experimenting with refining the way I handle projects in Drafts, and would like to use autocomplete to insert project references (based on drafts tagged with “projects”), but looking for a way to filter archived projects from that list…

Also experimenting with scoped project tags, hence the OR (e.g. an autocomplete list that could do projects::active OR projects::waiting).

Ideally, I think I’m looking to achieve a queryTagFilter for all “projects::” subtags that aren’t archived, or however close I can get to that…

2

Not sure I understand. You are wanting to know if you can script a query to get only drafts in the inbox with tags that match the “projects::” scope? The answer is yes, with constructs like:

let drafts = Draft.query("inbox", ["projects::"])

// OR
let ws = new Workspace()
ws.tagFilter = "projects::"
let drafts = ws.query("inbox")

Once you have queried, that is likely a small enough dataset that you could figure out the unique values of “projects::” subtags reasonably efficiently.

3

My bad for not being clearer. Wasn’t one of my best mornings!

I was looking at defining an autocomplete list in my syntax, using the “draft” type autocomplete object. Trying to figure out whether I can:
a) only reference inbox drafts in the autocomplete list (looks like it currently defaults to “all”?)
OR
b) target more than one subtag via the queryTagFilter

…so when I tap the trigger for my project list, I only really want to see a list of active projects.

I could build my own prompt/menu, but I’d like try to use syntax autocomplete for ease and speed.

4

You are not going to be able to get that level of filtering specificity out of syntax definitions, I’m afraid.

5

Got it. Fair enough!

6

Well, obviously you can’t get exactly what you want, but you can definitely use queryTagFilter in a completion definition to exclude and include tags. Not sure about scope tags and stuff, you’ll have to experiment, but I’m definitely using this.

The cheat I use for excluding archived Drafts, and you’ll probably hate this one, is to give them a tag of archive, then exclude that tag. Is this ugly? heck yes. On the other hand it let me keep using autocomplete on a very, very slow iPad for way longer than I should have with as many Drafts as I have, :smiling_face:.

Not quite as necessary with my new iPad pro, but still.