Retrieving content from various data files

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Hello,
I am trying to create a list of events per year.

  • Event data is stored in toml files in the data folder.
  • One file per year
    When I try to get the data from only one file it works.
    Unfortunately if I try to hand over the event year to the site using .Params.event it is not working.
    I was reading everything I could find being similar to my topic but didn’t get it working

My files are like this (showing the parameter I tried to use to address the data file)
2012.md
event: “Termine2012”

my data:
Termin2012.toml

dates = [
"Date 1",
"Date 2",
"Date 3"
]
names = [
"Name 1",
"Name 2",
"Name 3"
]
desc = [
"Desc 1",
"Desc 2",
"Desc 3"
]

My Single.html for those events calls a partial:

<div class="mdl-color-text--grey-700 mdl-card__supporting-text hugo-content">
         {{ .Content }}
          <!-- get termine from toml files -->
         {{ partial "termine-table.html" . }}
       <!-- End data access -->
 </div>

Partial file includes the table asking for the data:

<div id="termin-table" class="colmask threecol">
  <div class="colmid">
    <div class="colleft">
      <div class="col1">
        <!-- Column 1 start -->
        {{ $event := .Params.event }}
        {{ if isset $.Site.Data $event }}
        {{ $MyDateNames := (index $.Site.Data $event).names }}
        {{ end }}

            {{ range  $MyDateNames}}
              <ul>
              <li>{{ . }}</li>
              </ul>
            {{ end }}
            <!-- Column 1 end -->
          </div>
          <div class="col2">
            <!-- Column 2 start -->
            {{ range $.Site.Data.Termin2012.dates }}
              <ul>
              <li>{{ . }}</li>
              </ul>
            {{ end }}
            <!-- Column 2 end -->
          </div>
          <div class="col3">
            <!-- Column 3 start -->
            {{ range $.Site.Data.Termin2012.desc }}
              <ul>
              <li>{{ . }}</li>
              </ul>
            {{ end }}
            <!-- Column 3 end -->
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

column 1 shows how I tried to get the event name from the front matter file 2012.md
column 2 and 3 show how it was working with getting data from one file only.
the error message I do get is that my variable $MyDateNames is undefined.

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I’m too busy to dig into your exact problem, but have you read through this thread and checked out their Github repo?