Understanding Hugo archetypes

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Hi there,

I do not understand why the below code in archetype doesn’t work?

# archetype name: properties.md
---
title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}"
date: "{{ .Date }}"
draft: true
properties: "enum[rent, sale]"
type: "{{ inArray "residential" "commercial" }}"
subtype: "{{ inArray "apartment" "home" "office" "shop" "plot" "land" }}"
---

when running Hugo new it create an empty .md page in the content directory /properties/

Thanks

2

inArray doesn’t exist as a function.
You probably meant the go function “in_array” ?
but you provide too strings, there must be a mistake. Assuming you do mean in_array, there is no one-to-one correspondance between hugo’s functions and go… thanks Lord. Use the operator in
Also, what is “enum[rent, sale]” supposed to mean ? Again this is Go’s syntax, not hugo’s. you seem to be defining an enumeration type here ? No explicit typing in golang !

Archetypes allow for automated frontmatter creation by interpreting the content of parameters.

3

Hi @Tom_Durand

I am trying to see if I can create an archetype which at the time of running Hugo new ask me for some extra details for example for properties I can select either rent or sale.

Or the Hugo archetypes are statics and I have to add manually the text? I though since Hugo is build with gaoling it might take some golang code

Is there Hugo archetype cheatsheet which show what else can be added in the Hugo archetypes?

Thanks

4

STATIC site generator. It doesn’t ask anything. You indicate where to find the information - page, resource, API requests, metadata of a file through os.stats… - and it gets it. Although there are more limitations in frontmatters than on templates due to rendering order I suppose.
Read the manual.

5

HI @Tom_Durand

I read the documentation it is very basic for example:

---
title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}"
date: {{ .Date }}
draft: true
---

**Insert Lead paragraph here.**

## New Cool Posts

{{ range first 10 ( where .Site.RegularPages "Type" "cool" ) }}
* {{ .Title }}
{{ end }}

This is all that I see for the front matter of Hugo there is no more advance tips or tricks for example properties: "enum[rent, sale]" so I wonder if Hugo archetypes are very basic or the community is very small and these features or a detailed documentation on what else can be added in the archetype is not yet covered?

Thanks