Obsidian Dataview Tutorial: The Basics

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example vault for dataview queries

they say.

well I did and I found it super confusing because even though there is an edit mode, and a preview mode, Obsidian is too slick at auto hiding and rendering out the codeblocks.

I have no idea what Im looking at most of the time. Is this a real table or is this a dynamically generated block of code?

I feel like im lost in a hall of mirrors.

so I made a super simple example just with one or two things instead of the whole kitchen sink.

Inline metadata

were using inline metadata::

yaml front matter I think only works at the top of your document?? so im just going to avoid messing with it for now.

my db example

make a new file called Inventory.md in your vault

  
    ## Item 1
    - Item:: Item 1
    - Description:: This is item 1
    - Quantity:: 5
    - Location:: Warehouse A

    ## Item 2
    - Item:: Item 2
    - Description:: This is item 2
    - Quantity:: 10
    - Location:: Warehouse B

    ## Item 3
    - Item:: Item 3
    - Description:: This is item 3
    - Quantity:: 3
    - Location:: Warehouse C
  

make a new file called inventory_table.md

• add this dataview query in the backticks

  

```dataview
TABLE Item, Description, Quantity, Location
FROM "Inventory.md"
SORT Quantity ASC
````