Indexes for pages in sub-directories

[Don Fick]

I'm using Nikola 6.0.4 to convert an existing hierarchy of web pages into a Nikola site.  Nikola is not generating indexes for pages found in subdirectories below the standard top level directories. This makes it impossible to browse to items that are not posts.

The source files look like this:

posts/

foo1/

bar1.html

bar2.html

foo2/

bara.html

barb.html

pages/

recipes/

pizza.html

hamburger.html

documents/

vehicles/

car.html

truck.html

conf.py looks like this:

POSTS = (

    ("posts/*.html", "posts", "post.tmpl"),

)

PAGES = (

    ("pages/*.html", "pages", "story.tmpl"),

    ("documents/*.html", "documents", "story.tmpl"),

)

Nikola generates index pages for pages/index.html and documents/index.html but there are no entries in the page.

Ideally there would be index pages in each subdirectory, such as pages/recipes/index.html, and also higher level indexes which either list the next level of directories or simply all the files in lower directories similar to the posts index pages.

There is a thread that discusses this (https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nikola-discuss/TYxR4RIWoj0/discussion) and a reference to it in the changelog for 5.2 (*Recursive post/story folders).

Has this been implemented or can someone point me to the task that relates to building indexes?

Thanks,

Don Fick

[Roberto Alsina]

There is a option that's supposed to do this (STORY_INDEX) for pages[1] There is no support for doing this for posts at all.

OTOH STORY_INDEX seems somewhat broken for this case at least.

The code to handle it is in nikola/plugins/task/index


[1] I clearly missed a bunch of option names on the v6 cleanup...

[Thomas Janotta]

Hi Roberto, this is an old post,

but I want to use subdirectories like 'design', 'photos', 'music', each with an own navigation. (/design/shop, /design/links, /music/shop, /music/links etc.)

How should I assign 'NAVIGATION' for this, how should the pages (slug?) be named to achieve this?

maybe i have to create 3 independent 'nikola instances' right in the subfolders?

Thanks.

[Chris Warrick]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 at 11:20, 'Thomas Janotta' via nikola-discuss
<nikola-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Roberto, this is an old post,
> but I want to use subdirectories like 'design', 'photos', 'music', each with an own navigation. (/design/shop, /design/links, /music/shop, /music/links etc.)
>
> How should I assign 'NAVIGATION' for this, how should the pages (slug?) be named to achieve this?
>
> maybe i have to create 3 independent 'nikola instances' right in the subfolders?
> Thanks.

3 independent instances are unnecessary. You will probably need a
custom navigation setup that doesn't use NAVIGATION_LINKS as is (3
templates + 3 menu variables in global context?)

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[Thomas Janotta]

Hi Chris,

yes, I also thought about kind of three navigation_link Variables, Have to see how to do this (3 menu variables in global context)