Can you use inline dataview queries to create links?

[the1gofer]

Is it possible to use dataview’s inline queries to create links?

For example:

---
name: bob smith
---
[[`=this.name`]]

returns [[=this.name]] (without rendering)

I tried:

---
name: '[[bob smith]]'
---
[[`=this.name`]]

returns [[bob smith]]

but a query like:

list
where name = "bob smith"

doesn’t work and neither does subsitituting [[bob smith]] or any other varriation I can think of.

Is there any way to create a system that will allow me to create a link from in inline query AND let me query that field someplace else later?

[anon63144152]

This work at all?

---
name: bob smith
---

`=link(this.name)`

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
link(name)
WHERE file.name = this.file.name
```

[the1gofer]

that did it, thank you.