In a Quarto Website: How to provide a .qmd template file to download?

[chaz-clark]

Description

_Use this [template](/Templates/ds250_project_template_clean.qmd) to submit your Client Report. The template has three sections (for additional details please see the [instructional template](/Templates/ds250_project_template.qmd)):_

The above code results in hyperlinks to .html rendered pages instead of being a downloadable link to the .qmd templates. Is there anyway to specify that these links remain .qmd files?

[mcanouil]

If you don't want the Quarto document to be rendered, you have to tell Quarto to not render it.
See https://quarto.org/docs/websites/index.html#render-targets.

project:
  render:
    - "!/Templates"

[chaz-clark]

Thank you! per your code and the link i updated my file to contain the following code and it worked.

project:
  render:
    - "*.qmd”
    - "!/Templates”

[cscheid]

Just for everyone's clarity: the difference between

project:
  render:
    - "!/Templates"

and

project:
  render:
    - "*.qmd”
    - "!/Templates”

Is that the former requires 1.4 prerelease versions and the latter works with 1.3 and later.