Transclusion of links

[Gnopps]

Thanks for developing this plugin!

Would it be possible to have the results published transcluded? So instead of the list produced being [[File_name]] it would be ![[File_name]].?

[blacksmithgu]

It would probably be a different view (maybe a list view, or a 'transcude view?'), but yes, definitely possible.

[erichalldev]

I'm very interested in this as it would replace a chunk of my workflow I've written some custom code for. It looks like the infrastructure is there based off what I see in this function: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/blob/067ca4d5faffb83c6e5558df9ba3ddf6efca438a/src/data/value.ts#L75

I might take a stab at implementing this if I find the time.

[QuaCKeReD]

Hi,

This is exactly what I am looking for, as a replacement for 'Text Expander' (since the CM6 move broke it)

Has there been any activity on reaching this goal?

Thanks Mark

[AB1908]

Could you explain how this is related to text expander?

[QuaCKeReD]

Could you explain how this is related to text expander?

I currently use text expander to transclude a list of files. DV can provide the list of links, but not the ‘!’ to transclude them.

[AB1908]

Oh yeah, hmm. I imagine this is doable in DVJS though. Could also hook it up to templater to provide the list at runtime but it's quite hacky IMO.

[QuaCKeReD]

If you could point me in right direction... 😛

Haven't figured out how to change the output formatting of DVJS 😟

[AB1908]

The general idea is that you could find the files you need with some DVJS and then output or append them to current file with Obsidian's API. For example:

let tfile = app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath("path/to/file");
let output = dv.pages("#test").file.name.map(t=>`![[${t}]]`).join("\n");
await app.vault.append(tfile, output);

[QuaCKeReD]

Above kept erroring, so worked and got this

dv.list(
  dv.pages('"Diary" AND #test')
  .file.name
  .map(t=>`![[${t}]]`));

which does transclude the first file, but then rest just show as file names. Tried it using file.link and !${t}, with same result 😟

[QuaCKeReD]

This works!

dv.list(
  dv.pages('"Diary" AND #test')
  .forEach(p => dv.paragraph(dv.fileLink(p.file.name, true)))
);

[Gnopps]

I've created a slightly different workaround using dataviewjs. See the last line in the code below.

let meetings = dv.current().file.inlinks
meetings = meetings.sort(k => dv.page(k).date, 'desc')
for (let meeting of meetings){
if (dv.page(meeting).file.tags.indexOf("#meeting")>-1){
dv.el("p", "![[" + dv.page(meeting).file.name + "]]");}
}

[blacksmithgu]

Embed links seem to situationally work, and I've had better luck with them in DataviewJS than in Dataview for whatever reason.

[autolyticus]

Hello, this still seems to be completely hit-or-miss for me after trying all the above methods (and playing around with dv.sectionLink and dv.fileLink with embed=true). I don't know if it's because of the live editor, but the embeds just seem to show the file name in plain text (not even as a link)

[AB1908]

What's your use case?

[blacksmithgu]

Nothing has really changed Obsidian-side w.r.t. being able to do embeds; there isn't much I can do in Dataview aside from manually trying to re-implement some common use cases like image embedding (via embed(link(...))).

[AB1908]

I found a good example of this over in SRS. Happy to help anyone walk through implementing that but I expect it won't work with live preview.

[QuaCKeReD]

Hi, Yes, please, would love to see how this can be done.

PS: No idea what SRS is? 😛

[AB1908]

I've seen a transclusion implementation here: https://github.com/st3v3nmw/obsidian-spaced-repetition/blob/80af505c082495e1956ca5aad11ddbe90c495af3/src/flashcard-modal.tsx#L418

[stoweboyd]

My use case is this:

1. I create a topical kanban file, and add metadata to the yaml, like 'ø: work futures' to represent a project name and 'øø: meritocracy' to demote a subproject. These attributes are inherited by all tasks in the kanban. So far so good.
2. The kanban tasks -- generally -- created in place as tranclusions, like ![[2022-09-17 pamela paul - when diversity isnt the right kind of diversity#^d88bdc]], which resolves in the kanban and markdown views.
3. If I create a dataview query to find all tasks with those project and subproject attributes it 'works' -- the kanban tasks are all listed -- but the transclusions are not resolved:

I can click through on a task which takes me to the kanban task. Fine. And it is resolved there. But what might be best would be a dataview directive to same 'please resolve transclusions in the results'.

[blacksmithgu]

I've seen a transclusion implementation here: https://github.com/st3v3nmw/obsidian-spaced-repetition/blob/80af505c082495e1956ca5aad11ddbe90c495af3/src/flashcard-modal.tsx#L418

I guess I can just steal this embedding magic wholesale inside the Dataview renderMarkdown function.

[AB1908]

I really wish Obsidian included a cleaner way of rendering embeds but this works for now. It took me quite a while to understand what was happening there haha.

[QuaCKeReD]

ooo, is it ready for testing?

[AB1908]

No, not yet. Keep an eye on the releases for updates.