Current month tracking

[Scoubines]

Hi,

I love this plugin a lot but I'm bumping into an issue. I know someone asked it some time ago but it didn't seem to solve it.
I can't find a way to make a "startDate: Beginning of THIS month" to endDate: "End of this current month" kind of thing.

Basically I have a weight tracker graph that I want to be only showing me current month weight inputs "Poids". Currently I couldn't only find relative parameters such -1M etc...which isn't what I am want.

Any ideas to make it?

Thank you!

Here is my code with > because of the >[!multi-column] snippet

[!INFO] ## Weight evolution for this month

searchType: frontmatter
searchTarget: Poids
folder: 5.Journal/01 Daily
startDate: 30
endDate: 0d
datasetName: Poids
aspectRatio: 2:1
fitPanelWidth: true
ignoreZeroValue: true

line:
  fillGap: true
  yAxisLocation: left
  yAxisLabelColor: yellow
  yAxisColor: ffcc99
  yAxisLabel: Poids
  yAxisLabelColor: yellow
  lineColor: '#ffcc99'
  yMin: 50 # Set minimum weight to 50 kg
  yMax: 70 # Set maximum weight to 70 kg
  lineWidth: 3
  pointSize: 4
  pointColor: '#ffcc99'
  pointBorderWidth: 0
  pointBorderColor: '#25D0F7'
  showLegend: false

[lazyguru]

I believe you can solve this with relative dates? eg:

...
startDate: -1M
...

[MMoMM-org]

depends on what you want to achieve. @lazyguru is right you can use relative dates.
If you have a note though which you use on different dates and want to see only THIS month it will not work.
e.g. today 10.01.25... -1M will show you everything from 10.12.24 till today if you don't specify the end date.
Only way really is to use hardcoded dates..

[Scoubines]

@MMoMM-org @lazyguru thank you for your kind inputs!
So that's exactly it, having it set to -1M give me a relative date (today 10.01.25... -1M will show you everything from 10.12.24 till today), which isn't what I mean.

To make it clearer, I open a monthly note which includes a weight graph for the current month (at least that's what I want), and I don't find it super relevant in my case to see any earlier weight tracking from the previous month. For instance, if I track it every day and open my monthly note now on Jan 11th, I should get only the 11th weight displays, and nothing from December. In other terms I'm looking to have a per month analysis of my evolution.
Harcoding it...yeah but then, I lose the point of using Obsidian to automate that^^

Any other tips or tricks I might be missing?

[MMoMM-org]

If you have a note per month there is an easy workaround for the issue, create a template which will substitute the dates. At least with templater this is easy.
having tracker be able to utilise frontmatter properties would open up a lot of other usage scenarios though

[Scoubines]

If you have a note per month there is an easy workaround for the issue, create a template which will substitute the dates.
I'm not sure to understand your idea? I do have a note per monthly review but how is this going to help me? Sorry I'm a bit a bit of a newbie 😅

[MMoMM-org]

If you create the monthly note via Templater you can let Templater hardcode the start and end date.

Don‘t know if templates from the core plugins can do this too.

[Scoubines]

Oh I see what you mean...good idea! So far I created the notes via the Journals plugins with a single click on the month in the calendar, super convenient; so I will have to do it now via a palette command but not a big deal, maybe add a month button somewhere in the note to make it easier.
Thanks for the iniight!