Direct editing of dataview tables

[crazymedguy]

Pretty wild request I know...

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. So usually to amend an attribute I need to open up a page at the side, change the metadata, and only then does it reflect the change. That's all fine for 1 or 2 pages, but when it gets up to 10 pages, it becomes quite difficult, time-consuming and repetitive to do.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be great to be able to directly edit metadata within dataview tables. In future, maybe even implementing checkboxes for boolean values, or dropdowns for specific options would be really cool.

Describe alternatives you've considered I haven't seen any alternative yet.

Additional context Inspired from Excel and Notion's tables, like the screenshot below:

[blacksmithgu]

Tracking as next major feature along with table view overhaul.

[crazymedguy]

What does tracking mean? Table view overhaul sounds phenomenal!

[blacksmithgu]

It's what I'm actively working on alongside some big visual overhauls; Dataview data collection is pretty robust at this point and so the main thing that needs to improve is the day-to-day user experience, especially taking advantage of the cool stuff that Live Preview now offers :)

[MugenLee]

+1

[charleshan]

Oh man... This would be a game-changer. Obsidian + Dataview is on its way to replacing Notion and Spreadsheet.

[kngautham]

Please include the ability to change due dates to Tasks displayed using dataview. Right now, I have to go to the task using the given link and change the due dates. It would be awesome if we can directly change due dates in dataview view it self

[icytree]

This new plugin might be of interest to you guys. It already works pretty well !

[daamiian]

This is a bit old but I was hoping to get an update on this because while db folder is helpful and an amazing plugin, it requires it's own note to display, and if I wanted it in a note, embedding it just turns it into a regular dv table, so, same problem for the people who have many dv tables inside their notes.

[AB1908]

Hey @daamiian dataview is currently in maintenance mode as the author is working on a new plugin called datacore.

[ghake]

The Dataedit plugin seems to solve the issue.