Advanced query to search TODOs in active projects

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Hello, unfortunately I am completely lost in the world of advanced queries. I know nothing, nothing at all about programming, I must admit. It also took me a long time to find how to insert them into a page (the tutorial materials, why don’t they start with the first step?). Well, anyway, I tried to put together a query based on the wealth of advice here. Of course, I failed. So I’m asking for concrete help instead.

I keep track of the projects as attached. What I would like to achieve: to extract TODOs from active projects. Could someone help me with this, what should be the query? Thank you very much in advance!

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Here is a query to begin with:

#+BEGIN_QUERY
{
 :query [:find (pull ?block [* ])
 :in $ %
 :where
   [?block :block/page ?page]
   [?block :block/marker ?marker]
   [(contains? #{"TODO"} ?marker)]

   (ancestor ?a ?block)
   [?a :block/properties ?props]
   [(get ?props :status) ?status]
   [(= ?status "active")]
 ]
 :inputs [
   [
     [
       [ancestor ?a ?b]
       [?b :block/parent ?a]
     ]
     [
       [ancestor ?a ?b]
       [?parent :block/parent ?a]
       (ancestor ?parent ?b)
     ]
   ]
 ]
}
#+END_QUERY

The exact format of your notes is unclear, so you may need to add/remove parts from/to that query.

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3

thank you! how can i add projects to the query?

4

What does this mean? Please try making more specific questions. Do you mean this?

[(get ?props :tags) ?tags]
[(= ?tags "Projects")]
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5

I usually open a separate page for projects, I have photographed the structure, you can see it in the screenshot attached to the original post, I mark the page with a projects tag and the tasks are placed underneath.

I would like to collect the tasks of the projects marked as active.

6

That’s the part mentaloid posted. You need to add that to the query they posted earlier.
After the line [(= ?status "active")]
And before the line with ].

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thank you both very much, you are fantastic.

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Given your new info, you may get away with this:

#+BEGIN_QUERY
{:query [:find (pull ?block [*])
   :where
     [?block :block/marker ?marker]
     [(contains? #{"TODO"} ?marker)]
     [?block :block/page ?page]

     [?page :block/tags ?tag]
     [?tag :block/original-name "Projects"]

     [?page :block/properties ?props]
     [(get ?props :status) ?status]
     [(= ?status "active")]
 ]
}
#+END_QUERY
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