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Luis Martins
Luis Martins

Reputation: 1481

Getting "pages" from different collection with Assemble

Let's say I have a page from a collection where I want to list every yaml tag from a different pages collection. If they were in the same collection this would do the trick:

<section class="see-also">
<header>Related Contents:</header>
   {{#each tags}}
   <p>In <span class="tag">{{tag}}</span>:</p>
      {{#each pages}}
        <li><a href="{{relative ../../../page.dest dest}}">{{data.title}}</a></li>
      {{/each}}
   {{/each}}
 </section>

But since im trying to access this collection from a page on a different one, how could this be achieved?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 910

Answers (2)

cjspurgeon
cjspurgeon

Reputation: 1515

If I had this use case I would probably put the 'pages' yaml in a separate yml file instead of embedded on the page.

If in your gruntfile you include a path to data files:

assemble: {
  options: {
    data: ['<%= site.data %>', 'data/*.yml']
  }
}

And your file structure includes:

── data
│   └── page1.yml
│   └── page2.yml

You can access {{#each page1.pages}} from anywhere.

Or you could have a shared.yml file that includes information like the pages collection referred to, and the rest of the data stays on each page.

Further resources:

Upvotes: 0

jonschlinkert
jonschlinkert

Reputation: 11007

I would recommend creating a custom helper for this. Since there is no easy way to write a helper that will work the way you're describing for your specific setup, here is a great example of how a custom helper was used to solve a similar problem: https://github.com/assemble/assemble/issues/254

Upvotes: 1

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