Hi! I’ve created a Book collection and, with Dataview, I’ve created also a table with a link to a folder containing one file for each author (where I can find all the book I have read or want to read belonging to this author). So I have a folder with the books and a folder with the authors. How can I create a table (or something similar, maybe a Kanban Board?) where I can see, for each author, the book in my folder. Hope to have explained clearly what I have in mind: sorry, English is not my mother-language as you can easily guess Thanks in advance for any help

  • ilbradipo@feddit.itOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks a lot for your promt reply. Obviously I was not so clear in explaining what I’m looking for, sorry. I already have an “author folder” with the same output you indicate (one note for each author. I have also an “Author Gallery” with a list of all the authors with this dataview code: TABLE genre as Genere FROM "autori" SORT file.name I wish to have, instead of genre a list of all “my” books from this author. Could this be possible?

    • dakerDrawsEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Do you want to do something like this?

      table without ID file.link AS "Author",
filter(file.inlinks,(x)=>contains(x.Author,file.link) & contains(x.file.path,"Book Folder")) AS "Books"
from "Author Folder"
sort file.name

      The only thing you would need to change in this code is the Book Folder and Author Folder.

      But if you would like it to be a more visually appealing gallery, there may be some community plug ins you’ll have to try.

      • ilbradipo@feddit.itOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thank a lot! Exactly what I’m looking for! Where can I learn about the “query language” you’ve used? Can you point me also to the plugins I can try? Thanks in advance!

        • biscotty666@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Here’s the documentation https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/.

          I also want to suggest that you consider not basing queries on folders but using tags instead. Simply putting #author in the notes would mark it as an author note allowing you to simplify your query and make it work no matter where the file is located. Obsidian doesn’t really care about folders although we do always use them. So I don’t think it’s good practice to base queries on them. Just my 2 cents.

      • ilbradipo@feddit.itOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Just a question: if a book have more than one author, how do you suggest to modify your code or the YAML in order to show the books?