Querying children of a specific block with simple syntax

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I still find the advanced query syntax pretty opaque and haven’t been able to spend the time to learn it, so I’m trying to accomplish this with the basic query syntax.

I want to make a simple table of blocks under a specific parent, and what I’m going for is something like this:

{{query (and (property parent "66b22aa8-7a0d-4f21-99c1-85fe24cf97bc") (property severity "error"))}}

However, when I do this, I always get no results. If I remove the and clause and query only on the parent property, I still get nothing. What am I doing wrong?

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Querying for direct children sounds strange. Could you share some example notes?

3

I can’t copy/paste my actual notes for a couple of reasons (IT policies, blah blah), but here’s a representative example:

 - Records
    - name:: RecordName
      priority:: normal
      source:: [nice text](ugly url)
      anotherUrl:: just.a.url.com
    - name:: Another Record
      priority:: high
      source:: [nice text](ugly rul)
      anotherUrl: unformatted.com

this block and it’s children could be anywhere in the graph (and the query could be anywhere else), but in my query, I don’t want to get any random block that might have a :priority property. I only want to query these specific blocks (and in the real note, there are dozens, not two)

4

Why to query the children, instead of referencing the block itself, i.e. with ((66b22aa8-7a0d-4f21-99c1-85fe24cf97bc))?

5

hmm…ok, if I query the parent directly I do get the children, but if I try to add a property to the query, it comes back empty:

{{query "uuid"}} - returns block and children (and parent, for that matter)
{{query (and "uuid" (property name))}} - back to nothing

Update: I think the and clause returns nothing because the parent block I’m querying doesn’t have the properties I’m looking for, so now this seems exactly what I should have expected. The query only returns 1 result, and what I’m trying to do is list all the children of this block in a table

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  • There are no built-in properties parent, severity etc.
    • To use those, should provide them in every child.
  • But it is more meaningful to:
    • add a unique tag on the parent
      • e.g. #records
    • then inside (and) combine that tag with the property
      • e.g. {{query (and [[records]] (property name))}}
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there are no built-in properties parent

ah, ok. Is there another way to query “children of this specific block” without having to tag the parent?

9

I don’t think so. Should use an advanced query.

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