What I’m Trying to Do
I am trying to make some Dataviewjs code that will show the backlinks and outlinks of the active note from the sidebar and show the context of each link. By context, what I mean is the line or sentence that the link can be found in. It would look sort of like this:
Except, of course, “Some description” would be replaced by the sentence the link apears in.
What I’ve Tried
Here is the code used in the image above:
```dataviewjs
// This gets info from the active pane.
const getFirstSplit = (split) => { if (split.type == "tabs") { return split } else if (split.type == "split") { return getFirstSplit(split.children[0]) } }
let firstSplit = getFirstSplit(app.workspace.rootSplit)
let current = firstSplit.children[firstSplit.currentTab].view.file
let page = dv.page(current.path)
if (page != undefined) {
let backlinks = page.file.inlinks
let links = page.file.outlinks
// Got lost here...
let content = await dv.io.load(current.path)
let referenceText = content.match(/^[^\.!?]*(page.file.link)[^\.!?]*[\.!?]/i)
referenceText = "Some description" // demo purposes; remove later
// Backlinks Section
if (backlinks != undefined) {
backlinks = backlinks.map(p => p + "<br> " + referenceText)
dv.header(1, "==" + backlinks.length + "== backlinks for *" + page.file.name + "*")
dv.list(backlinks)
}
// Outlinks Section
if (links != undefined) {
links = links.map(p => p + "<br> " + referenceText)
dv.header(1, "==" + links.length + "== pages linked in *" + page.file.name + "*")
dv.list(links)
}
}
```
It’s based on this Novel info panel code I saw earlier, so that’s where most of the code comes from, and I don’t really know what I’m doing—mostly just made this through trial and error. I feel like I’m pretty close, but now I’m stuck.
Does anyone know how I could change this so that the referenceText for each backlink and outlink is retrieved and displayed like above?