Using :sections in permalinks not working as expected

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My goal is to have permalinks reflect only the top two levels of my content hierarchy (that is, “posts” and one more). I am using :sections in my permalinks configuration (as documented here).

I have tried, following the docs and also this issue comment, these variations in my config.json:

"permalinks": { "posts": "/:sections[:2]/:title/" },  // generates at /posts/title/
"permalinks": { "posts": "/:sections[1:2]/:title/" }, // generates at /title
"permalinks": { "posts": "/:sections[0:2]/:title/" }, // generates at /posts/title/
"permalinks": { "posts": "/:sections[0:3]/:title/" }, // generates at /posts/title/

The generated permalinks are shown for content in /posts/section-a/section-b/bundle-directory/index.md.

So – none of the given configurations seem to be able to capture section-a into the permalink as I would expect. Clearly I’m misunderstanding something about content hierarchies. Can you point me in the right direction?

Many thanks. (I am using hugo v0.92.1 extended.)

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every section on every level needs a _index.md file.
HTH

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Brilliant! Don’t know how I’d missed that – thanks so much!

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