Dataview troubles

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#1

I’m quite sure this isn’t a bug but I’ve failed miserably to get the dataview to work. I’ve read the instructions (of course), and I’ve watched five different YouTube videos on it. I feel I’ve really put the work in before posting. It’s not rocket science so it has to be something stupid I’ve done/not done, but the instructions are so simply I just don’t see what I’ve missed.

I create a note with the test.

author: “Edgar Allan Poe”
published: 1845
tags: poems

and a second note with

LIST author, published, file.inlinks AS "Mentions" FROM #poems

and I’ve tried literally 10+ variations on this, but all I get shown is the LIST query as plaintext. It never queries anything.

Yes the plugin is installed.

#2

This works in local tests. YAML must be on the first line. Use straight quotes (not curly ones as in the forum post … which might just be the forum formatting, of course).

---
author: "Edgar Allan Poe"
published: 1845
tags: poems
---

```dataview
Table
	author, 
	published, 
	file.inlinks AS "Mentions"
FROM
	#poems
```

dataview poems
dataview poems928×578 27.7 KB

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#3

Adding to @eightning’s explanation, if you don’t want to use YAML for your dataview data you can use dataview’s inline function which needs two colons, like this:

author:: Edgar Allan Poe
published:: 1845
tags:: poems

I would advise you to read the Beginner’s Guide by @DeniseTodd if you haven’t already, it is really well structured.

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