Show modified task name in dataview that’s still connected to original task

[DeutscheGabanna]

Let’s suppose I have this task.
- [ ] a task [unnecessary filler]

and I want to query it and show it, slightly modified through regex, to look like this

found 1 task:
- [ ] a task

You can quite easily modify the string with this snippet:

for (let i = 0; i < source.length; i++) {
	source[i].text = source[i].text.replace("a", "b");

and then display it:
dv.taskList(source, false);

However, the task that is displayed has no connection to the original task whatsoever! As long as its displayed name differs in any way, the original task doesn't change its state if you check/uncheck its clone from dataview.

Please help

[DeutscheGabanna]

[blacksmithgu]

This is because Dataview does a textual comparison to ensure that the task you are checking has not changed since the view was created - mainly to avoid incorrect tasks being checked by accident.

There isn't supprt for doing this properly right now, though I can add a display custom property to tasks that can be overwritten and which will be rendered. Converting this to an issue.

[max-mykhailenko]

I like this behaviour, even more I want to share tasks list between several another pages and each page should have own mark status. It's like task cloning, but if parent changed all list will be synced

[sohanglal]

A workaround to this problem is to store tasks.text to an array before making any modifications to it
Data from the array can be restored after running dv.taskList()