How do I get the 'service', 'id', and 'URL' if I want to publish a book to Quarto Pub?

[e05bf027]

I have written a book of around 100 pages or so in html. I want to publish it to Quarto Pub. When I look on the Quarto site it mentions that I should manually create a _publish.yml file.

In this, the service, ID, and URL should be specified. The example shows the following:

- source: project
  quarto-pub:
    - id: "5f3abafe-68f9-4c1d-835b-9d668b892001"
      url: "https://njones.quarto.pub/blog"

I am completely unsure where on earth I find these for myself. I assume it is straightforward. Can anyone tell me?

[cscheid]

@e05bf027 Do you mind pointing us to where in the docs you read "manually create a _publish.yml file"? Our intention, I believe, is to the effect of "you should create one in your local machine before using GitHub actions", and not "write one with your text editor". If this was the source of your confusion, we should definitely fix it!

To answer your question: the way you create a _publish.yml file is by running quarto publish on your command line.

[e05bf027]

I have fixed the issue. I believe it was my mistake. I misread the instructions and thought I had to manually create the .yml file before I published. This is not the case (as you know), and the book is now published. Thank you for getting back to me!