Hello,
I’m trying to do something that I thought would be easy but looks like it’s not.
I’m currently building a personal website to host my resume.
On the frontpage, I want to display a timeline made by a list of the missions I’ve previously worked on.
I have a yaml data file that contains a list of missions with several information, such as the client, the time, and the description, etc.
The description is in markdown, and so is a second detail field.
The goal is to be able to easily generate the list of missions in several languages, so to centralize the data.
I’ve managed to work with a range function that calls the elements of the datafile. So far, so good.
index.html:
<div class="content">
{{ range .Site.Data.missions.missions }}
<div class="ewrap event">
<div class="event-info-col">
<strong class="job">{{ .job }}</strong>
<strong class="company">{{ .company }}</strong>
<strong class="date">{{ .date }}</strong>
</div>
<div class="event-desc-col">
{{ .description }}
<details>
<summary>Plus de détails</summary>
{{ .details }}
</detail>
</div>
</div>
{{ end }}
</div>
Which uses the missions.yaml that follows:
missions:
- job: test
company: test
date: test
description:
|
# title
test
this is a test
** My markdown is good man **
details:
|
# test
This is not going great
## secondary title
And unfortunately renders:
<div class="content">
<div class="ewrap event">
<div class="event-info-col">
<strong class="job">test</strong>
<strong class="company">test</strong>
<strong class="date">test</strong>
</div>
<div class="event-desc-col">
# title
test
this is a test
** My markdown is good man **
<details>
<summary>Plus de détails</summary>
# test
This is not going great
## secondary title
</detail>
</div>
</div>
</div>
The only problem is that it displays the Markdown as is, instead of converting it to html.
I’ve tried building a shortcode, but shortcodes can’t be called from the layout.
I’ve tried putting everything in the _index.md, but you can’t iterate through a range in a content file.
I’ve tried iterating in the index.html of the layout, but it seems that I can’t access variables from the content file either to send to a shortcode.
I’m a bit out of ideas.
Is there any way to do what I want to do ? Any alternative ?
Is there a way working with md files, putting the “single lined” data in the front matter and the description in the body ? How would that work with the fact that I need 2 separate markdown “variables” ?