Listing field not inherited from global _quarto.yml

[kris-brown]

Hi, I have a global _quarto.yml with a date: last-modified line which applies to all the .qmd files in my project.

I then have a listing in my project:

listing: 
  categories: true
  type: table
  fields: [title, categories, date]

But the date field is rendered empty unless I explicitly put date: last-modified in the corresponding files. Is there anything I can do such that the listing defaults to the global yml file when a field isn't found?

[mcanouil]

I think the issue is the location of this option.
It will work just fine if instead of setting this option in _quarto.yml at the root of the project, you set this in _metadata.yml (e.g., posts/_metadata.yml when creating a blog quarto create project blog myblog).

But, maybe, Quarto listing should inherits from _quarto.yml. Bug or missing use case 🤷‍♂️

[dragonstyle]

This is indeed a bug and will be fixed in 1.3 (we aren't yet building 1.3 installers yet, but we should be doing so in a couple of weeks).