[Bug] Dashboard Index file empty

[zenminimalist]

@turulix The Dashboard index file (root) does not seem to be populated. It just shows this:

Obsidian version: 1.3.5
MacOS: 13.5

The other folder index files are generated without a problem and works.

[turulix]

Mind swapping to preview mode for me?

[zenminimalist]

Mind swapping to preview mode for me?

Sure thing. Here you go:

CleanShot.2023-07-30.at.21.41.31.mp4

[zenminimalist]

Maybe to add, a dataview query does work:

dataview
List
FROM #MOCs

Maybe that info rules out certain things.
I've also tried defaulting back to the default theme to rule out any conflicts. Still no success.

[turulix]

Can you show me your file structure?

[zenminimalist]

Maybe there was a misunderstanding on my side. I just happened to have put a file in the root directory yesterday and today....behold it displays exactly that.

Here's my file structure:

I thought the index in the root would consolidate the MOC in the other folders, so it would display a MOC of MOC or a Index of the Indexes, which was what I was expecting. So sorry, about the confusion. My bad 😞

However, that would be a nice feature though 😇 You'd have the master index that gives you an overview of all your folders MOC and you can then drill down even further to the relevant file/folder.

Sure, one could always use a dateview query, but your plugins way of displaying it with numbers and such is much nicer and wouldn't require an extra CSS snippet for the numbering.

[turulix]

Nope, it will only display files in the / directory, if you want it to display all MOC files in the vault theres is a setting called Build IndexFiles Recursively which might do what you want :)

[zenminimalist]

if you want it to display all MOC files in the vault theres is a setting called Build IndexFiles Recursively which might do what you want :)

I see, thanks.

However, that doesn't seem to work. Or I'm missing the really obvious here (which is very likely 😇) Here's a short demo with a demo vault, of me excluding the attachment folders, but it's still displaying. I've tried a few combination, but no luck.

[turulix]

Turns out, i'm stupid. I just released a patch, try to update to version 1.0.21 and Attachements.*? as the exclusion

[zenminimalist]

Wow, that was fast 🤯
It doesn't seem to change the behavior.

I've also tried restarting Obsidian and deactivating & activating the recursive option, no luck. Also, didn't see any errors in the console view.

[turulix]

Umm... Now i'm kinda clueless as it works for me now and I can't reproduce it anymore

EDIT: I FUCKING MISSPELLED ATTACHMENTS xddddddd

try: Attachments.*?

[zenminimalist]

Great, it works now! I should have caught that typo too though ☺️

One small improvement that I think would be nice is to have is to be able to collapse the lists, similar to normal md text. Here's what I mean:

That way, the user can see the index of indexes, but also choose to literally see every thing on one numbered page (MOC and all files) if he/she expands the list. Or is there an option for that too?

[turulix]

Sadly can't make the lists collapsable, since obsidian just dosn't support it for CodeBlocks, there is #48 but idk when i find motivation to implement that, that would solve this issue.

[zenminimalist]

No worries, It's a really minor thing and the plugin as whole is already such a time saver or dare I say "game changer". And the workaround for the root-level index can be a simple dataview queriy.

Thanks again for the help and the plugin. 🤘🏽🚀