Allow global setting to block dataview-rendering in specific folders

[Gewerd-Strauss]

Hello,

I use this plugin a lot, and often several times per note. This also extends into my templates, which I often need to edit. There is one issue: I have a lot of templates that take a couple of seconds to load because DV is loading the tables and inline queries it contains.
Obviously, in a templates-folder I don't need to see the output of a query - it's just a template after all.

The imo simplest solution would be to add a global setting where I can add foldes to be ignored, comparable to how we can exclude folders and files under Settings → Files and Links → Excluded Files

The only alternative I could think of - in fact it was my first idea - would be to add a section of frontmatter to a template that gets removed during templating, so that I then could leverage the "Force Note view Mode-"plugin to force a template into source mode.

But that is both more prone to bugs, and... I believe much more work. Not to mention that:

1. to my knowledge you both cannot add sections to a template that gets removed when templating but still works within the template itself
2. template yaml-fields seem to be prone to not render correctly when you have a lot of tp-syntax in there.

Any alternative suggestions and ideas are welcome.

Thank you,
Sincerely,
~Gw

[micmejia]

#2619

A temporary patch to exclude certain folders from being indexed by dataview:

Open your .obsidian/plugins/dataview/main.js.
Search for async _initialize(files).

Add the following line(s) at the top of that async function:

files = files.filter(file => !file.path.startsWith('excluded_folder1/'));

You can repeat this line many times for each of the subfolder to exclude.

    /** Internal asynchronous initializer. */
    async _initialize(files) {
        files = files.filter(file => !file.path.startsWith('excluded_folder1/'));
        files = files.filter(file => !file.path.startsWith('excluded_folder2/'));
        files = files.filter(file => !file.path.startsWith('excluded_folder3/'));
        
        let reloadStart = Date.now();
        let promises = files.map(l => this.reload(l));
        let results = await Promise.all(promises);

You need to re-apply the patch everytime the plugin is updated.