Dataview: Get link from block containing inline field metadata

[lukebm]

Is it possible to obtain the link to a block (marked with an inline field) returned from a dataview query?

Here’s what I’m trying to do

path/to/notes/note-01.md
summary:: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

table without id
summary as Summary,
{{ some way to obtain link to `summary` block }} as Link
from "path/to/notes"

Here’s how I envisage the result

[holroy]

I believe your best bet is to change those blocks into decorated tasks (or custom checkbox statuses). Then you’ll be able to do task queries to get the summaries, and they’ll provide the link back automatically.

This would also allow you to format your summaries so they’ll stand out a little more in your documents, which I think is nice for stuff like this.

See the following post (and links therein for more on this variation):

Locating tasks with a given status when using Minimal theme

Just to re-iterate a little on this, but doing markup like the following: - [k] (term:: DNA) – (definition:: deoxyribonucleic acid) - [p] Task decoration is a pro concept! Which using Minimal theme (and a little custom on inline fields), would render as: [image] This has at least the following benefits related to inline fields, and linkage in general: Any inline fields within a task is contained or grouped together with fields in the same task. So in the first line the term (“DNA”) is link…

Regarding your original request, I’ve not found any links like you request. Within a list context you can get links to the corresponding header, and block if the blockId is defined. I’ve not found a way to generate the blockId from within a query/script (except potentially through text manipulation).

In a pure block context, it’s even harder to get to that reference, and it would require even more text manipulation.

So I strongly believe doing a task related approach is much better, easier, and in general more accessible. Due to styling you can also either enhance or hide extra formatting according to your needs.