Media Companion does not process dataview codeblocks?

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[edit: turns out this was likely a media companion plugin problem, not a problem with dataview. see below]

What I’m trying to do

I have a bunch of so-called sidecar files for (non.md) files.

For example: file.ext.sidecar.md is the sidecar file for file.ext

In the sidecar, I want to list the backlinks to file.ext (i.e. the files that reference it)

To be clear, I want to avoid having to hard-code the filename to each file.

Things I have tried

Normally, this would give me the backlinks to a file:

LIST 
FROM [[]]

I want a list of backlinks to a related file–something like:

LIST 
FROM [[ replace(file.path, ".sidecar.md", "") ]]

Another approach

TABLE  file.name, link( replace(file.name, ".sidecar", ""))
WHERE  contains(file.path, replace(file.path, ".sidecar.md", "") )

This seemed ot find the wrong files…!!!

Though I know that syntax is wrong. Is it possible, and how?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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If I’ve understood correctly, then this query in your sidecar note will list all notes that link to the sidecar’s related note:

```dataview
LIST
WHERE contains(file.outlinks, link(replace(this.file.path, ".sidecar.md", "")))
```
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Okay, thank you for that. That really helped…not because it solved the problem, but because it helped me realize I have a completely different problem.

I was using the Media Companion plugin to manage the sidecar files. Your code shows empty dataview results in the sidebar sidecar, BUT if I open the file in a regular tab, it works. I suspect that the sidebar is not processing the dataview code correctly, or something like that…I will take it up with them…