Obsidian - Going Down A Rabbit Hole With Data View Plugins

[@robf5230]

You've sucked me into this rabbit hole! I can't believe how powerful Obsidian can become while being totally *free!* It has more features and flexibility than most paid options. Thanks for making these videos. I'm really sprucing up my worldbuilding with all these tricks.

[@JoshPlunkett]

Check out the one about calculating the travel distance ;)

[@Skellybr0]

this look incredible, I am looking to use Obsidian to organize the data for my DnD campaign I am going to run, but just found out about Obsidian and am overwhelmed lol. I have been using Notion to be a bit organized but I like the speed and offline nature of Obsidian, and I can still use Notion as a wiki or source for images for quick sharing over Discord/Foundry. Awesome video!

[@ryanbartlett672]

Thanks for the video. You've got my brain firing on the possibilities -- for work and play.

[@JoshPlunkett]

Yeah my brain is firing. So many cool things you can do and not enough hours in the day.

[@chr_aikicom]

thxs for these interesting videos. Can you tell me what thème do you use?

[@JoshPlunkett]

I'm using the ITS theme but with the alternative modifications. I have a video on how to set it up.

[@adamgoodman4902]

How do you get those dates to auto populate on your database table?

[@JoshPlunkett]

Inside the database folder note use the settings option (tip right) to access the database folder configuration for this note. Inside there are options to enable the time stamps for hith new and modify of notes.

[@TomHudson00]

what plugin are you using for that infobox?

[@JoshPlunkett]

It's included with the its alternative theme. Covered here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqCzc3euotlslc0

[@mortifidpenguin]

So two questions : 1. Is this supposed to properly format your front matter ? As currently I'm only getting the keys and Values but its not adding the lines and what-have-you. 2. Is it possible to change the orientation of the data your imputing as I want to keep things organized if I have to add new fields later

[@JoshPlunkett]

Not sure I am following sorry. It should be adding these into the front matter which by definition should be adding things beteen the --- and ---. Is this what you are referring to? I don't believe it's possible to change the layout.

[@Ninja_de_fogo]

I'm trying to create a table for my factions on Obsidian, but the app won't find any results for my query... Did I do something wrong? > ```dataview > table raca as Raça, ranque as Ranque > where (conexao = "ClaSchwarzgift") > ```

[@JoshPlunkett]

Honestly that looks ok. I can't immediately see any concerns with it. Without having the source data though it's hard to be sure. If you still need help, the best place to find it is in our community discord. There's an Obsidian Support channel where you can post requests for help and attach your files. Much easier to help that way. obsidianttrpgtutorials.com/Obsidian+TTRPG+Tutorials/Community

[@MrJonon]

I see that in the database folder you get a drop down list with different choices. What do you use to get that list?

[@kevinvanloo2049]

It's auto populating from his previously filled in lines.

[@kevinvanloo2049]

Playing around with it now, and I can't seem to get it to work either. @Josh, how did you make this work?

[@MrJonon]

@@kevinvanloo2049 I got the answer on the obsidian discord a while ago by Josh himself. Apparently when you click the header that you created and then hover over property type you can chose what type you want. For example in my case I wanted "select". I kinda missed that haha. But it is as simple as that.

[@kevinvanloo2049]

@@MrJonon oh waw, I missed that as well. Thanks for letting me know, and thanks Josh for helping us!

[@jimhart5797]

If I add a new note through right click menu, Templater applies the template correctly. However, if the file is created through the Database Folder, the template is not applied. I can't find any other settings that may resolve this issue. Have you seen this?

[@JoshPlunkett]

I had this when I first set it up. It started working shortly after. I would try and reload Obsidian. That usually fixes this sort of thing. Also I did move my Templater note to the very top of the list in the settings. Not sure if that helped.

[@jimhart5797]

@@JoshPlunkett It looks like it's an order of operations issue. Templater only works on empty files. Database Folder adds the frontmatter before Templater can fire. I went into the Templater code, removed the check for 0 file size, and it worked. Obviously that's not a permanent solution but it hints at the issue; some sort of sequencing. I'll continue to dig. Thank your for the content and the reply! This is really fun stuff.

[@JoshPlunkett]

@@jimhart5797 that was the conclusion I came to also. And then it just started working. In all my pre video testing I had basically thrown the idea out and then it just worked.

[@JoshPlunkett]

@@jimhart5797 I wonder if it matters if the template has front matter in it or not.

[@MatthewRogers13]

I noticed the same behavior and unfortunately the templater won't trigger when there is front matter entered by the DB Folder. Still pretty useful. I just create a new note first then enter the info using the DB Folder.

[@TheRoadToTravel]

Hey 👋🏼 Josh, did you found a way to automatically populate the statblock in the template? Stuff like `=this.name` seems to corrupt the statblock (in the !info) for me (no rendering) - would be so great to get this working too. \\edit: first I thought the reason you put the statblock in an !info is to get this work??

[@JoshPlunkett]

You know what I havnt tried this. Interesting concept. I make all my monsters from raw imports so yet to explore this. Maybe if you used an Inlime Script that returned the name but converted to text.

[@TheRoadToTravel]

@@JoshPlunkett yeah this should work too I guess but still would be kinda manual. Meanwhile I tried this approach with no success: there is a parse frontmatter setting in the statblock plugin setting, combined with a ‚statblock: true‘ frontmatter line (addable via database folder column). It would work IF the dataview inline command `=this.name` would be recognized inside the statblock in the template. If you use the creature name manually, it works but this breaks the concept.

[@metubr]

`=link(this.xxx)` is not working, I get Dataview (for inline query '=link(this.Parent)'): No implementation of 'link' found for arguments: object

[@JoshPlunkett]

Sorry I missed this. Did you get it sorted?