Publishing with the repository template and dataview queries is not working

[rajbos]

Hi, I'm trying to publish our Obsidian content to GitHub Pages using the GitHub repository template. Thanks for the work with an easy setup for this!

So far things like Mermaid charts and Navigation footers are working, except the dataview queries: they are converted to html as is, and I cannot get them to work. Any info to get me in the right direction would be appreciated!

I've tried both the template and the Obsidian plugin obsidian-github-publisher but it seems those are two completely different setups? The plugin does transform the dataview queries into the right markdown!

Is there a way to combine things? What I want to achieve is that I can work in Obsidian locally (the queries work just fine) and on commit+push into the GitHub repo I want to publish the docs into a GitHub Pages website, with a GitHub Actions workflow without any manual action (like the plugin would be).

Is there something I am missing in the template for this? Or is this use case not supported at all?

[Mara-Li]

Have you enabled the dataview option in the settings ? The dataview transformation into Markdown is not linked with the template.

[rajbos]

I don't see a reference to that setting in the docs, so probably not 😄 (also can't find it in the mkdocs.yml indeed

[rajbos]

Or do you mean I should use the plugin to publish the md files into a repo that has been setup with the template and let that publish it?

[Mara-Li]

Exactly !

[rajbos]

Hmmm, good to have that context. There is no way to trigger this conversion / upload from outside of Obsidian, correct? Would be nice if I can use a call into Obsidian.exe to trigger the plugin then (and automate this instead of doing things manually).

[Mara-Li]

Nan, I'm sorry. I won't develop anything outside Obsidian (beside the template).

[rajbos]

Thanks for the help!