Force field type #558
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Hi folks, Is there a way to force a field type, specificaly, a date field type, making explicit the format? I have cuystom date fields, in when sorting, they are getting interpreted as string fields, not date. Thanks Sieg |
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It's not directly possible right now, though you can manually do the parsing you need in DataviewJS if desired (just access the fields, and use whatever parsing function works for you in JavaScript). |
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I am experiencing a similar irritation. I like to write times using a period as separator, but this causes Dataview to interpret that column as a number, causing truncation of trailing zeroes. |
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Can you try casting it to a string? I'm almost certain it won't work but still curious. |
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How? |
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Yeah I already tried that, it discards leading/trailing zeroes before casting which is supremely irritating. |
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Big oof then haha. Can you create a new discussion and give us some data to repro with? |
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It's not directly possible right now, though you can manually do the parsing you need in DataviewJS if desired (just access the fields, and use whatever parsing function works for you in JavaScript).