How should 'filter by function task.descriptionWithoutTags' be used?

[peterdalydickson]

I've spent a good while attempting to figure out how to remove tags from rendered lists of tags and I've had to admit defeat.

Should...

```tasks
filter by function task.descriptionWithoutTags
```

Return all tasks without displaying tags?

Or have I completely got the wrong end of the stick?

How should task.descriptionWithoutTags be used?

Hope you can help! :)

[claremacrae]

What does this mean:

how to remove tags from rendered lists of tags and I've had to admit defeat.

[claremacrae]

Did you mean “from a rendered list of tasks”?

[claremacrae]

Maybe this page is what you want?

https://publish.obsidian.md/tasks/Queries/Layout#Layout+commands

[peterdalydickson]

hide tags is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much for your quick reply 🙏❤️

[claremacrae]

I've spent a good while attempting to figure out how to remove tags from rendered lists of tags and I've had to admit defeat.

Should...

tasks filter by function task.descriptionWithoutTags

Return all tasks without displaying tags?

No, it should give an error and refuse to search, because task.descriptionWithoutTags is not a boolean, it's a string.

See the summary of filter by function here Custom Filers > Summary.

And indeed when I run it I my vault, I get this error, where [[KeySafe Installation and Use]] is the description of a task in my vault that matches the global filter:

Tasks query: Error: Search failed.
The error message was:
    "Error: filtering function must return true or false. This returned "[[KeySafe Installation and Use]]"."

Or have I completely got the wrong end of the stick?

Well I don't exactly understand what you want to achieve, but yes, I think so. filter by function determines whether individual tasks match your query or not.

How should task.descriptionWithoutTags be used?

Building on this example in the documentation:

This finds all tasks where the description is longer than 100 characters long:

filter by function task.description.length > 100

So this one finds all tasks where, after stripping out tags from the description, there are more than 100 characters remaining:

filter by function task.descriptionWithoutTags.length > 100

Hope you can help! :)

Only if you can answer my earlier questions above to clarify what it is you actually are trying to achieve....