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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/obsidianmd

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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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Just to make sure I understand, you want your Author notes to have a Dataview table containing all the books they've written?

For each Book note, do you have a field (either in YAML or inline Dataview) pointing to the Author note? What I personally do is have an inline field that links to the Author note:

Author:: [[Stephen King]]

Then in the Author note I'll have this:

table without id link(file.link,title) AS Book, Year FROM "BOOK FOLDER" WHERE contains(Author, this.file.link)

Replace BOOK FOLDER with wherever your books are. Then you can paste this into all your Author notes. Even better, make an Author template so you don't have to type it each time you make an Author note.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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?

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