Get direct parent of a child in a subsection

support
1

I have the following structure:

content/projects/
├── project-1/
│   ├── _index.md
│   ├── log-1.md
│   └── log-2.md
└── project-2/
    ├── _index.md
    ├── log-3.md
    └── log-4.md

I am listing all the logs like this. For each child (log-1, log-2, etc) I want to also display a link to its direct parent section (log-2 → project-1, log-4 → project2, etc). However, when I do {{ $log.Parent }} all I get is the topmost section, projects.

{{ $logs := (where (where .Site.Pages "Section" "projects") "Params.is_log" true)}}
 
{{ range $index, $log := $logs }}
    <div class="log">
         **<a href="">{{ $log.Parent }}</a>**
    <div>
 {{ end }}
2

I am unable to reproduce the problem with this structure:

content/
├── projects/
│   ├── project-1/
│   │   ├── _index.md
│   │   └── log-1.md
│   └── _index.md
└── _index.md

Perhaps you are missing an _index.md file in one of the project directories.

3

Also, instead of setting is_log = true in the front matter of each log file, you might consider setting type = 'logs' instead. That would make it easy to create a single page template that is unique to logs:

layouts/
├── _default/
│   ├── baseof.html
│   ├── home.html
│   ├── list.html
│   └── single.html
└── logs/
    └── single.html

And if your log files have a consistent name pattern (e.g., they begin with “log”), you can set the .Type in your site configuration instead of adding front matter to each file:

[[cascade]]
type = 'logs'

[cascade._target]
path = '/projects/*/log*.md'

Either way, your page selection is reduced to:

{{ $logs := where site.RegularPages "Type" "logs" }}
4

I created a blank project with the same exact content structure. For whatever reason it works exactly as I expect on the new one. Are there any projects settings that might affect this behavior?

I also appreciate the feedback on the style. The is_log was a poor solution.

5

As soon as I posted I found what was causing all of my grief. My past self had this in my config.toml

disableKinds = ['taxonomy', 'term']

Get rid of this line in case you added it like I did.

6

I can’t see how that would have any effect.