I’m trying to create textual documents which can have inline references to other such textual documents.

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Last updated: Sep 10, 2020

Hi! I’m new here, new to Sanity and would like to get some help.I’m trying to create textual documents which can have inline references to other such textual documents. What I managed to do so far is to insert a reference, but as a separate block, not inline.

Would it be possible to insert a reference to another document inline?

Sep 10, 2020, 8:35 AM

If i understand correctly, instead of making a reference, you need to add the field as

type: 'your-other-document'

this will load the document fields inside your document.

Sep 10, 2020, 8:49 AM

user H

Thank you for the quick response.Unfortunately, I’m not sure I understand what you mean.
I am happy with references, I don’t want to load the whole content of the other document, its name is enough. I would like to be able to insert such a reference in the editor as an inline element, part of the text block.
Like:
The sun is a mid sized star in our

SOLAR_SYSTEM

. It has 8 planets, including

EARTH

.In this example, the highlights are references, inserted from a given collection.

Sep 10, 2020, 9:00 AM

I was thinking about using annotations as well, but it requires to select some text first, which is against the use case. So, inserting would be much better.

Sep 10, 2020, 9:00 AM

https://www.sanity.io/docs/block-type#example-schema-block-array-with-custom-types-OFzEUqst you should add it under the

of

key in the block type object to make it inline

Sep 10, 2020, 9:17 AM

That’s it! thank you!

Sep 10, 2020, 9:19 AM

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