Is it possible to generate a listing of all files in a specific folder?

[jackflorey]

In a Quarto document, I'm trying to create a page containing a table of all files in a specific folder. I'm using the following frontmatter to generate the listing.

title: "Listing Example"
listing:
  type: table
  contents: "Assets/DisplayFiles/*"
  fields: [filename]

The folder Assets/DisplayFiles/* contains a number of pdf files and I want to show a table with their filenames which can be clicked to preview the pdf.

The snippet above generates the page, but no entries in the table.

Can anyone shed any light on what I might be doing wrong and how to fix this? Thanks!

[mcanouil]

The * is not needed.
Quarto doesn't detect what it can't render.
So you have to actually list the content that you want to appear in the listing for example using a pre-render script (https://quarto.org/docs/projects/scripts.html#pre-and-post-render) and follow https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-listings-custom.html#metadata-listings.

Take a look at my projects or publications listings: https://github.com/mcanouil/mickael.canouil.fr.

[jackflorey]

Thank you....I'll give that a go!