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alyus
alyus

Reputation: 1007

Can't access data from a specific file

I've created a file called people.yml inside of the _data folder. I have a page people.html where I'm trying to access the information from the data file. It seems like I can only get the info when I create a for loop. I'm referencing the examples found here to accomplish this. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

people.yml

- id: 123
  name: John Does
  type: A

people.html

<h1>Person</h1>
<p class="name">{{ site.data.people.name }}</p>
<span class="type">{{ site.data.people.type }}</span>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 166

Answers (1)

Brad West
Brad West

Reputation: 969

You've made the data in your people.yml file an array by adding the -. If you want to access it not in a loop, you'll need to remove the hypen.

id: 123
name: John Does
type: A

Then calling {{ site.data.people.name }} should return "John Does".

Upvotes: 1

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