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Dataview table from different folders (feddit.it)
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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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[–] biscotty666@lemmy.world 1 points 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.