Listing all inline fields

[Y-a-n-i-n-a]

Hi, I have asked on the general Obsidian forum, and people say I might be able to do that with JS. I need to learn it first :) so I thought I'd ask here as well before putting a feature request.

I have a vault of notes that are large chunks of text. To be more specific, they are what's called patient narratives -- story of a given patient's therapeutic course, expressed in natural text, which are updated by appending more text. For my research I need to be able to query and tabulate this text to get insights, and Dataview with inline fields is EVERYTHING. Seriously guys, this is a game changer.

However since inline fields are not like tags (= Obsidian doesn’t propose existing inline field keys when typing), my annotations are error prone: e.g. I can annotate oone thing with “CFS” and another with “CSF”, and this data will be missing from my table/list.

I thought that I can easily keep this clean if I create an index page where all inline fields are listed, a bit like tag pane; looking at this page from time to time would allow me to weed out typos and inconsistencies. I can search for :: in the search fields, but that returns each individual note, which won’t work.

Question: is there a way to create a note with a list of all inline field keys I have used? Or is there maybe another workflow that allows to keep the inline fields clean?

Thanks again for your amazing work.

[vitaly]

here is how you list all files grouped by type field, for example:

```dataview
list rows.file.link
group by type
```

this is how you list all the types:

`$=dv.pages().groupBy(p => p.type).key`

[blacksmithgu]

Definitely a very useful skill to have :)

[aikruger]

This is an excellent use of inline fields, essentially equivalent to Nvivo, going to use this

[aikruger]

The only issue with this code is that it does not pick up those inline fields in tasks...

[AB1908]

Indeed, it gets filtered out since it's inside the file.tasks object.

[siocean]

Hi,
How would you change the code to list only the inline fields (not frontmatter, and not the implicit fields) from the page the code is in? I am trying but cannot get it to work. Very new to coding.
Thanks!

[vgyenge6]

Hi,

I have also a similar issue. I would like to get all inline fields on

1. a given page
   something similar to what is written here

How do I list all keys, keys being key:: ?

I.e. I would have a 'sanity check' note with a list:

Index note
concomitant-medications
concomitant-medicatons
medical-histore value

However, I would like to get not only the keys but their values (varying types)
e.g.
Personname:: PersonA
Title:: #Author #Writer
Organization:: [[Organization]]

I saw a possible resolution here and tried it

dv.list(Object.keys(dv.current()).filter(t => t != "file"))

but it only gives me back the keys::
Personname
Title
Organization

I would like to see the values too.
How can I modify the above dataviewjs?

I tried the below two variations but neither of them worked to give back the values too, only the keys

dv.list(Object.keys(dv.current()).filter(t => t != "file")).text
dv.list(Object.keys(dv.current()).filter(t => t != "file").value)

2. on particular pages having a specific tag or tags

I tried also what was given here

let pages = dv.pages("${dv.current().file.folder}");
let keys = new Set();

for (let page of pages) {
for (let key of Object.keys(page).filter(t => t != "file")) keys.add(key);
}

dv.list(Array.from(keys));

but a little modified because of my tag selection requirement

let pages = dv.pages("#TagA");
let keys = new Set();

for (let page of pages) {
  for (let key of Object.keys(page)) keys.add(key);
}

dv.list(Array.from(keys));

It worked but it also gave back only the key:: part but the value not.

** @blacksmithgu could you help me please how to query all the key::value exactly?**

Thank you for your kind answer.

[holroy]

Well,Object.keys() returns just that the keys. If you use Object.entries() you'd get both the keys and the values, so try that and see if that solves your issues. Do remember to remember to remove the file key, as that might introduce way too much information.

And also, note that if the keys are not sanitised you'll get a dual entry for the non-sanitised and the sanitised key variant.

[vgyenge6]

Thank you for your reply and suggestion.

Remember to remove the file key ...
I do not understand what you mean.
Could you give me please an example of the right scripts for both cases mentioned above, getting the key: value pairs 1. on a given page, 2. on particular pages having a specific tag or tags?
(I'm not so deeply adept yet in your very sophisticated and clever plugin :)
Thank you for your kind answer and help.

[holroy]

You could try doing the following in some random document with some inline fields and/or properties, lists or tasks, and so on:

## Without file

```dataviewjs
const page = dv.current()
delete page.file

dv.span(Object.entries(page))
```

## With file

```dataviewjs
const page = dv.current()

dv.span(Object.entries(page))
```

So since you suggested you wanted the inline fields, I suggested this approach with deleting the file part. In other circumstances its information is the key to success, but in your case it seems like it would just provide "noise". :-D

[vgyenge6]

Thank you.
I tried, and this worked. I see why deleting the `file ' part. :)