Inline objects

[griffimu]

Hi - Dataview is wonderful!

I have a use case for collecting a bunch of reference documents that don't need their own individual page, but I would like to give them metadata and be able to query for them. My idea is to create a document library on a single page, with each row being a separate "document" with inline fields. When querying dynamically from another page, it would only return the line with a tag that matches the name of the querying page. Is this possible? If not (as the documentation seems to suggest), are inline objects on the roadmap?

Thanks!

Here are some more specifics -

Document Library page:

• [Title:: Doc1] [Link:: URL1] [Tags:: tag1, tag2, tag3]
• [Title:: Doc2] [Link:: URL2] [Tags:: tag4, tag5]

Page for tag5:
TABLE Title, Link, Tags
FROM "Document Library"
WHERE contains(Tags, this.page.name)

Dataview would then return only the second line

[griffimu]

Someone on the Discord channel suggested querying a CSV using the csv() function instead of a markdown file in the From. This works for me, so I'm noting it here.

[blacksmithgu]

I am working on this functionality for the next major update (0.5.0), though I haven't completely settled on the syntax for "embedded objects" yet.

[griffimu]

Awesome! That would be great added functionality. Thanks for all of your work to give us this awesome plugin.

[griffimu]

Hi Michael - happy new year. I was curious if you have any plan on when this next release might be available. I'm really looking forward to using this functionality. Thanks for all of your work.

Matt

[ccchan234]

I am working on this functionality for the next major update (0.5.0), though I haven't completely settled on the syntax for "embedded objects" yet.

work still in progress?

thanks

didn't found anything about embedded objects in manual:
https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/annotation/types-of-metadata/

[vitaly]

I tried using .csv files, but it doesn't really work, hard to work with etc.
The good solution is to just use yaml data block on the page, and then display the data using Dataview:

try this:

---
data:
  projects:
  - name: foo
    client: Joe
    status: active
  - name: bar
    client: Jane
    status: done
---
```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID p.name as Name, p.client as Client, p.status as Status
WHERE data.projects
FLATTEN data.projects as p
```

[vitaly]

Actually, I think this is good enough so that inventing some new weird data embedding format might not be needed ;)

what we really need is a way to safely modify the data from Dataview.

[RamVasuthevan]

Yeah, I'd like to do something like what you are doing but I also like to have links and tags at the top of all my notes

[gmkado]

It would still be nice to have embedded objects. I have a long-running notes page and want my objects to be defined in the context of the notes, not all in the front-matter. The utility of dataview is that it can collect all of these objects, otherwise I would just put them directly into a table.