Add Function to convert data types to their display value #2480
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Querying for metadata where only the "display" version is currently complicated.
Consider these three metadata fields:
The query
only results in the first match:
The only query I found that matched all three cases was this one:
However, this expression is error-prone and quite complicated. This PR introduces a new utility function
display()
that tries to convert all objects into a valid string representation while preserving the display value. This means[[Jon Doe]]
is converted to "Jon Doe" and[[Jon Doe|Joe]]
is converted to "Jon", etc. The above query reduces to this much simpler expression: