Free Obsidian plugin

Dataview to Bases

Name: Dataview to Bases
Author: Hidden Problems Lab

Convert Dataview queries into Bases blocks, and report which queries in your vault can be converted.

Install from the Obsidian directory Open in Obsidian Source code and issues

Before: a dataview TABLE query in a note. After: the same query converted to a Bases block that shows a table of four books with their ratings

What it does

Convert Dataview queries into Bases blocks, and see which queries in your vault can be converted. A migration helper for people moving off Dataview, which has had no release in over a year, to the Bases core feature.

It also moves Dataview inline fields (status:: done) into properties, so Bases can see them.

It converts the common queries (TABLE, LIST, FROM, WHERE, SORT, LIMIT, GROUP BY) and tells you plainly why it leaves the rest alone. It never converts anything on its own, and the vault scan never edits a note.

Highlights

TABLE (with AS aliases and WITHOUT ID) becomes a table view; LIST becomes a list view.
FROM with folders, files, #tags, [[links]] (notes that link to it), [[]] (notes that link to this one), and and, or, -/! and parentheses.
WHERE with comparisons, and/or/!, = null, dates (date(today), dur(7 days)) and the common functions: contains, icontains, lower, length, default, choice, startswith, endswith, replace, split, join, round, floor, ceil, abs, min, max, dateformat, striptime, number, link and a few more.
SORT with several keys, LIMIT with a number, GROUP BY one field.
file.name, file.link, file.path, file.folder, file.ext, file.size, file.ctime, file.mtime, file.cday, file.mday, file.tags, file.outlinks, file.inlinks and this.file.*.
Columns that are not plain properties become formulas, named after what they were.

Details

Version: 0.2.0
Needs Obsidian: 1.10.0 or newer
Platforms: Desktop and mobile
Author: Siulved54
Price: Free and open source

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