I know you can’t make pages, content pages, from data files. But… could I make a single content file, have nothing in the body and in the front matter have some value that I can do a find/match to a data structure in the template, and then pull in data from under that matched heading to populate the…

Ha! Thanks so much for that @bep :+1: I wouldn’t have thought of using Hugo environment variables this way! @gaetawoo Here is a working example based on the code snippets given in this excellent topic: [Solved] CSV data key lookup Contents of /data/abc.csv id, description, color, number, cat, …

Work-around for making pages from data?

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bep August 31, 2018, 8:02am 2

You can populate a page with data.
You cannot create pages from data.

What you describe is the first, which is easy, but I suspect not what you want.

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Work-around for making pages from data?

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