New User - How to Make a Custom Table with File Listing of PDFs with Links

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What I’m trying to do

I’m not sure if this is possible (just installed Obsidian this week and loving it so far) but I have a folder of PDFs that contains instruction manuals and receipts for a variety of things around our house. What I would love is to create a table that has a column for the item, another with links to the receipt/manual (within the “Scans” subdirectory), and maybe a column for some notes.

Things I have tried

I can get a listing of all the files using dataviewjs but I’m not sure if this can be incorporated into an editable table. This is what I have so far:

const pdfFiles = app.vault.getFiles().filter(file => file.extension === 'pdf' && file.path.includes('Family/Receipts/Scans'))
dv.list(pdfFiles.map(file => dv.fileLink(file.path)))

I’m open to installing plug-ins/etc if they would be helpful. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!

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If you mean an editable table that you can type things in manually, DataView can’t do that.

Otherwise, DataView can make a table with the things you want, but you’ll need a way to indicate what item the PDF goes with and a place to store the notes. For that you would have a note file for each item, with a property containing links to or names of the associated PDFs.

Obsidian’s forthcoming Bases feature can do this too, but it’s in beta and will be for a while.

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