How are collections made available in templates about collections HOT 7 CLOSED

Found out they are available under their very own name:

for col in collections.overview
  li= col.title
else
  ...

The reason I didn't find this at first, is that the collections plugin must be the first to run, not the last. Very obvious actually.

from collections.

ah yup, sorry for the confusion there. they just need to be before your templating step if you want to use em in the templates

from collections.

the globals exposed are a single collections dictionary of all of the collections arrays, and then a COLLECTION global for each of the collection keys, for example articles or guides that is an array of the files

i've been debating whether to simplify to just a single collections dictionary global

from collections.

I would vote in favor of just the collections global

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Ian Storm Taylor
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the globals exposed are a single collections dictionary of all of the
collections arrays, and then a COLLECTION global for each of the
collection keys, for example articles or guides that is an array of the
files

i've been debating whether to simplify to just a single collectionsdictionary global

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from collections.

they just need to be before your templating step if you want to use em in the templates

That's an important point. I suggest to add that to README.md.

from collections.

+1 to add to the README.md in fact I think this would be a great documentation structure to suggest for all plugins given the pipeline nature of metalsmith. Maybe something like a "Template Usage" section or maybe - since we're not necessarily using the template plugin - "Using the results" or "Results"? Would help get a sense of what each plugin achieves, which for now is usually only minimally described in intros.

from collections.

+1 to add to the README, I understand that it's fairly obvious and logical to that if you need a variable in a template it needs to be defined before the template, but it's still not an immediate thing to notice, specially if you are a beginner.

from collections.