How to have content available in datamodel but not rendered in a "dedicated" page

[paolovpro...@gmail.com]

Actually if you define a custom type every data file tagged with that type will be available on the data model and will mandatorily produce a rendered page.
I want to have the data available on the data model to use in another page and not a page rendered for that specific type.

For instance I've created a "news" type. Every time I update my site I create a new file (for instance news20180824.md) and on its metadata I put type=news.
Then I want in my index page to have all the news and I don't want to produce a single page for every news file.

I've "hacked" jbake to do this putting this line:

if ("none".equals(findTemplateName(docType))) return;

as the second line in "Renderer.render(Map<String, Object> content) throws Exception" and setting:

template.news.file=none

in jbake.properties.

It's a dirty hack but I think the need I have could be common to others.
Probably would be better to have that no template defined for a type means no rendering but the template definition id mandatory to have the data on the data model and not copied as is on the output.

I'd like a comment, at least at my request. Could be there is already a way to do it that I've overlooked.

Thanks

[Jonathan Bullock]

Hi,

Apologies for the delay in responding to this.

No there isn't another way to achieve this at present. My first thought was to have a flag in the metadata header that controls whether the content is output to a file or not, but maybe it would be best to have a special type defined in JBake to achieve this goal.

Could you raise an issue for this on GitHub?

Thanks,

Jon

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