How to create a list for all incoming links?

[jansome]

Hey Obsidian and Dataview fans out there!

Following the documentation it should be rather easy to create a list of all files that contain a link to the current file. Let's create a test case:

• test 0: this file is supposed to contain the actual list of all files test N, that have a link to test 0; furthermore, it has only two outgoing links to test X and test Y
• test 1: this file has a link to the file test 0
• test 2: this file has a link to the file test 0
• ...
• test X: this file does not have any outgoing links
• test Y: this file has a link to the file test 0, while being referenced by test 0

The documentation lists the following commands:

To my understanding, the dataview command would look something like the following:

list
from [[test 0]]
where file.inlinks

For a direct comparison, I tried several cases, including file.inlinks as well as file.outlinks. For the example introduced above, the files would look something like the following:

• test 0
  

• test 1
  

• test X
  

• test Y
  

Other than expected, the output (reading-mode) shows the opposite of the documentation. Furthermore, test Y is the only file listed by the command file.inlinks. Also, I would expect the file.outlinks command to also list test X, which is obviously not happening.

Either I am not able to use the dataview plugin properly or something goes wrong. Does anyone have an idea to fix this issue? I would love to have a reliable list of all files that have a link to the current file.

[holroy]

I would love to have a reliable list of all files that have a link to the current file.

To see all incoming links to a given file use:

```dataview
LIST
FROM [[]]
```

This uses the special variation to denote links to current file, [[]]. In general, you can't really use a lot of expressions in the FROM clause, just those specified here: https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/queries/data-commands/#from

[jansome]

This seems to do it. Much appreciated, thanks a lot!