Hiding pages in branded grav site

[andy-miracl]

Hi,

We have a site which we brand using site variables in different site.yaml files. However, certain brands should not publish certain pages.

I have tried to set the published flag in the page frontmatter dynamically using twig but it seems that this is not supported? Can I do this?

Can I do anything with page collections or taxonomies?

What other options are there for doing this?

Thanks for your help

Andy

[rhukster]

so you have different site yaml files in different environment setups? like:

site-a.com/config/site.yaml
site-b.com/config/site.yaml

And you can't access these?

I'm not fully understanding what you are trying to do or trying to do it.

[andy-miracl]

Hi, not quite. We have one grav source tree, but we have multiple site.yaml files for each brand.

e.g.
mysite/user/config/brand1.site.yaml
mysite/user/config/brand2.site.yaml

Before running a branded site we simply copy one of those to :

mysite/user/config/site.yaml

Lets say we have two pages in the site :

mysite/user/1.pagea
mysite/user/2.pageb
mysite/user/3.pagec

Lets say in brand1 I want all pages but in brand2 I want only pagea and pageb.

One simple solution is to delete or rename mysite/user/3.pagec before spinning up the site, but ideally Id like a neater solution. There are the 'published' and 'visible' attributes in the frontmatter for the page, but these dont seem to accept twig e.g. the following doesnt work

---

published : {{ site.brand_name != "brand2" }}

Is there some way of dynamically hiding a page? Or perhaps is there some way of declaring hidden pages in brand2.site.yaml? Alternatively, can I do something in the blueprint?

Thanks

Andy

[rhukster]

You can use twig in frontmatter if you enable it in system.yaml:
pages.frontmatter.process_twig: true - https://learn.getgrav.org/basics/grav-configuration#pages

[andy-miracl]

(Note we are running grav 1.2.4)

Thanks, Ive been trying this many different ways but cannot get it to work. Ive set the value in system.yaml and created a page :

---
title: My Page
published: {{ site.showpage  }}
---
published: {{ site.showpage  }}
system.pages.frontmatter.process_twig: {{ system.pages.frontmatter.process_twig }}

I get the following error :

Unexpected characters near "}" at line 2 (near "published: 1").

---
title: My Page
published: 1
---
published: 1
system.pages.frontmatter.process_twig: 1

If I remove the space padding inside the {{ }} e.g. :

---
title: My Page
published: {{site.showpage}}
---
published: {{site.showpage}}
system.pages.frontmatter.process_twig: {{system.pages.frontmatter.process_twig}}

I get this error :

Error: Invalid Frontmatter

Path: /home/andy/Documents/projects/maas_docs/user/pages/00.distributorguide/050.view-client-billing-information/docs.md

Malformed inline YAML string: 1 at line 2 (near "published: 1").

---
title: My Page
published: 1
---
published: 1
system.pages.frontmatter.process_twig: 1

If I try to return the string "true" or "false" instead e.g. :

---
title: My Page
published: {{site.showpage ? "true" : "false"}}
---
published: {{site.showpage ? "true" : "false"}}
system.pages.frontmatter.process_twig: {{system.pages.frontmatter.process_twig}}

I get :

Error: Invalid Frontmatter

Path: /home/andy/Documents/projects/maas_docs/user/pages/00.distributorguide/050.view-client-billing-information/docs.md

Unexpected characters near "}" at line 2 (near "published: true").

---
title: My Page
published: true
---
published: true
system.pages.frontmatter.process_twig: 1

[flaviocopes]

Wrap the frontmatter twig in a string: published: "{{ site.showpage }}"

[andy-miracl]

Great, thank you for clarifying that... :o)