Filtering items of listings based on meta data

[mllg]

I have a folder publications which contains a qmd for multiple publications. Each qmd file comes with meta data about the publication in the front matter. I can now easily list all publications, e.g. with

listing: 
    contents: 
        - "publications/*.qmd"

I now want to provide a different view on this listing, i.e. restrict the listing to include only publications of a specific author. I can do this with a custom listing and an ejs template which filters on pattern "NAME":

<ul class="pub-list list">
  <% for (const item of items) { %>
    <% if(item.author.match("NAME") ){ %>
      <li <%= metadataAttrs(item) %>>
        <span class="listing-title"><%= item.title %>.</span>
      </li>
    <% } %>
  <% } %>
</ul>

I'm wondering if there is a way to

1. retrieve the "NAME" pattern from the meta data of the page which is contains the listing, or
2. a different way to pass down variables to ejs templates?

[dragonstyle]

Right now there isn't a way to retrieve metadata from within the ejs template.

I think that would be a great feature (perhaps a utility function you could use to read metadata) but I would also like to add native filtering to listings. I'll open an issue to track these improvements.

[rcannood]

Thanks for taking a look at this! Is there already an issue for tracking these improvements?

[dragonstyle]

Yep #2833 was the issue tracking this- it should be supported as of Quarto 1.3.

[mcanouil]

To note, this is partially why I went another way to create a publication listing (WIP), i.e., I used pandoc to get a YAML list of publication from a bib file and use that yml list directly in the listings: https://github.com/mcanouil/mickael.canouil.fr/blob/fix-issue23/publications.qmd