DataviewJS Insert Block links

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Similar to this thread I’m looking for a way of inserting a block id that can reference from other notes. Currently I have certain notes that I refer to as “annotations” which are basically atomic quote notes.

An example notes looks something like this:

---
id: A-202301261028
quote: My walk... is a public one. My business is in the world; and I must mix in the assemblies of men, or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me"
sources:
  - { person: [[William Wilberforce]], place: [[📕 Spark]], location: test }
  - { place: [[📕 Leadership as an Identity]], location: Chapter 20 }
tags:
- servant-leadership
- faithfulness
---
\`\`\`dataviewjs 
dv.view("dv-views/annotations/v1")
\`\`\`

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This works great for the note itself, and even on my specific “book” or “person” notes I can easily list all related quotes like this:

dv.view("dv-views/book-annotations/v1")

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Now the only remaining requirement/request I have is to insert a custom ^quote (see first image for reference). This way anytime I want to reference (typically with translucency) I can do something like ![[A-202301261028^quote]]

I’ve tried to so something like this in my index.js, but it did not create the same html markup as a proper block ID and ultimately it didn’t work to be recognized by my separate note.

dv.el("div", 
    dv.el("span", "^quote ", { cls: "cm-blockid", spellcheck:"false"}), 
    { cls: "cm-line"}
);

Would love any help I could get with this, curious if its possible and if not, how could I get it on the roadmap?

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Sorry, I’m having trouble following exactly what you’re looking for here. Is this a Dataview feature or an Obsidian feature)

Maybe it would help to elaborate on how you imagine the following would happen:

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So I think I got this to work, not sure what I was misunderstanding at the time but it actually works just as I hoped. So I have an annotation note with the following:

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as part of my template, just below the dataview snippet I have a ^quote call that makes it possible for me to reference only the quote and not all of the additional notes within the file.

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As you can see here this seems to work as expected so I’m happy.

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@ryanjamurphy My apologies, what I described as working I realized is not what I was trying to do (this is what I get for going on a trip between posting and replying). As I described in my last replay, place a ^quote below my dataviewjs block works as expected, but what I wanted to accomplish was inserting that same ability within the view.js (between the quote the quote and the source detail as seen here.

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Using the following code I was able to insert the text as expected but it doesn’t function as a callable section for transclution as expected.

dv.el("div", 
    dv.el("span", "^quote ", { cls: "cm-blockid", spellcheck:"false"}), 
    { cls: "cm-line"}
);

Instead I get the following error:

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I have to ask again: What are you really trying to do? What’s your goal with this workflow?