I have two sections, Projects and Universities, where I want Hugo to generate JSON and HTML outputs. The JSON for Universities works perfectly, but the JSON file for Projects is using the template for University. Is there a bug in Hugo’s lookup order or am I missing something? Project Structure ├…

do you have JSON outputs defined? Something like this?? For better help you shold give us a samle repo :wink: [outputFormats.JSON] MediaType = "application/json" BaseName = "index" IsHTML = false IsPlainText = true noUgly …

I think the JSON type is built in to Hugo. Here’s my output config: [outputs] home = ["HTML","JSON"] page = ["HTML","JSON"] section = ["HTML","JSON"]

Here’s a sample repository. https://github.com/xlegs/hugo-error-demo There is no usable HTML output here. All I need is to generate correct JSON files.

When I test your site, I can see that it does use the project/list.json.json and universities.list.json layout files appropriately. Do this to test yourself: add "layout" : "universities/list" and "layout": "projects/list" to somewhere in the json layout files accordingly. I can see that Hugo u…

check [image] Hugo's Lookup Order Hugo searches for the layout to use for a given page in a well defined order, starting from the most specific. I never used baseof JSON files. If the doc does not have JSON template names, go after RSS etc… I redefined outputF…

Can you provide an example, because the the json files are not correct on my machine.

This is what I did: I downloaded your site code In layouts/universities/list.json: {{ define "main" }} [ { "layout" : "universities/list" }, {{ range ... the rest of your code Output: public/universities/index.json { "data": [ { "layout" : "universities/list" }, { "nam…

Sometimes it works. Then I stop the server, delete dist, and when I rebuild the problem comes back. Why is it so inconsistent?

JSON output uses the wrong template

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xlegs August 2, 2020, 4:48pm 7

This does not work and results in no change.

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JSON output uses the wrong template

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