Dataview - Where Inline Field = Inline Field

[Tedman]

Things I have tried:

This works:

TABLE without ID file.link as "Note", author as "Author"
FROM "Media/Books"
Where author= "Alice Munro"

Note4	Author
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage	Alice Munro
Open Secrets	Alice Munro
The Love of a Good Woman	Alice Munro
The Moons of Jupiter	Alice Munro

This doesn’t:

Author_Name:: Alice Munro

TABLE without ID file.link as "Note", author as "Author"
FROM "Media/Books"
Where author= Author_Name

What I’m trying to do

Hello,

I have been trying to create a simple Form for my list of books where I can input an author’s name into a space (in this case after “AuthorName::”) and have an associated Dataview query show me any results where “author” (the YAML field I have for each books) matches “AuthorName”. Is this possible? I know I can just update the dataview query myself, but I hate having to dig into the queries all the time.

Thanks

[holroy]

Try using this.Author_Name or this.AuthorName, after you agree with yourself on which you’re actually using.

[Tedman]

@holroy

this.AuthorName

That works! Thanks so much!

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Author_Name:: Alice Munro

TABLE without ID file.link as "Note", author as "Author"
FROM "Media/Books"
Where author= this.Author_Name

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