What I’m trying to do
I am using DB Folder + Dataview to make a sorta relational database for organizing a bunch of information but I’m keeping documents of different types in different folders. I’m wanting to put the databases themselves in the parent folder but have them reading from specific subfolders. So I can have the organized document list with different properties in nice table but all the other files it’s listing neatly tucked away in a sub directory, but the only options for folders is “this folder” or “this folder excluding subfolders.”
How do I just have it reading and creating files in a subfolder? My best guess is ingoing link or outgoing link but both of those just want me to reference some specific file that it’s reading from? Does it want me to create a database locally in the folder and then the one in the parent folder is just like a copy? It lets me input a folder path but then doing just that and updating, it just reads no files for the table in the sub folder. I guess my understanding at this point has been abstracted away so that I’m not even sure what some of the options would even mean at this point.
I’ve looked in the db folder documentation but it didn’t really clarify what was meant by the data source options or how I should effectively utilize them, much less adapt that knowledge to doing what it I want it to do here.
Just to make it a bit more clear what I’m trying to do. I have say the following setup for a folder in this obsidian vault:
Parent Folder
- sub folder 1
- sub folder 2
I want Database 1 to live in the Parent Folder but read info from files in Sub Folder 1. Then I want Database 2 to also live in the Parent Folder but read info from files in Sub Folder 2.