Why is my listing no longer showing up? Says my listing qmds contain no metadata therefore 'undefined'

[skycheng17]

Description

This error seems to have only just come up so I wonder if it's either a bug or I amended my code somewhat without knowing.

I have a portfolio listing on the bottom my website homepage. It worked until today, where now the portfolio shows up empty. It is only empty when it is on my homepage and not on the designated portfolio tab.

This is the relevant code:

listing:

  - id: portfolio
    contents: "portfolio/**/index.qmd"
    type: table
    fields: [title, categories, date, image]
    sort: "date desc"
    sort-ui: false
    filter-ui: [title, date, categories]
    page-size: 3
    image-align: left
    image-height: 1.75in

---


## Portfolio

::: {#portfolio}
:::

#### [See more projects →](/portfolio)

On terminal, I keep getting this message:

WARNING: File /./././././docs/portfolio/6_Digital_Equity/index.qmd in the listing 'portfolio' contains no metadata.

How should I resolve this? It seems to work fine on the portfolio tab.

[mcanouil]

Could you share a small self-contained "working" (reproducible) example to work with, i.e., a Git repository? Thanks.
Your snippet is not enough.

What version of Quarto are you using?

[skycheng17]

Just to clarify, do you mean multiple index.qmds can be read in the listing, so each index.qmd and the rest of the contents per listing should be kept in the larger portfolio folder?

[mcanouil]

I figured the issue about the recurse thing (not the listings in fact):

resources: 
  - "portfolio/1_DigiPlay/index.qmd"

Why are you adding the Quarto document as a website resource? Do you want the Qmd to be uploaded with the rendered website?

I made a PR to cleanup your example.
Then all is good. (even with the qmd uploaded alongside the website because of setting resources)

Then because docs is not hidden and is part of the project Quarto also looks into this directory and finds a Quarto document which it tries to render, and so on, and so on, at each rendering ...

recurse.mov

Resulting in:

If you really intend to add Quarto documents to your website using resources or links, and more generally if you render to a directory that is not hidden to Quarto (starting with an underscore), then you need to ignore the directory:

project:
  render:
    - "!docs"

Note that I am using Quarto 1.4 pre-release.

[mcanouil]

Hum, ignoring does not help as the listing is still seeing the file in docs.

Note that quarto render works, but not quarto preview:

Render	Preview

CC @dragonstyle @cscheid Here is the repository a bit cleaned up: https://github.com/mcanouil/test_portfolio/tree/chore/example-cleanup

[mcanouil]

@skycheng17 I really think there is a bug with Quarto Preview here and went ahead to open an issue:

• Listing globs will crawl project output directory #8147

Note that if you want the Quarto document to be downloadable from your website, you could use code-tools: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-code.html#code-tools

Your listing is showing up by the way, it's just that a lot of bad content is added before your actual contents at each quarto preview.

[cscheid]

We did just fix a bug related to render lists yesterday. Are we positive that this still happens on main? I'm not following the details of the issue so if you could confirm ahead of me diving it that'd be great

[mcanouil]

I always tries on main ^^ in particular 094f507 for this one.

TL;DR: quarto preview seems to detect more than quarto render for listings which causes recursion in this particular case. This results in a "resource" document being including in the listing at each preview and the resource to be "uploaded" as well, etc.

Tree	Warnings

EDIT: quarto preview --no-browser does the right thing.