Jekyll collections don't generate pages

Help
1

I have been stuck creating a page for my lab-group for the past 6 hours.
The code is in our GitHub, and I have been following the Jekyll docs on Collections.

Basically, I have edited my _config.yml file as follows:

collections:
  workshops:
    output: false

In the contents/_workshops/ directory, I created a file

title: "Cellular deconvolution"
label: workshops
layout: default
published: true
date: 2023-07-10
---
blah blah

Now, as far as I know, Jekyll should create a static file for each file in this directory in the _site directory upon live-reload. However, it does not do this. I do not understand why, though.

I do have a page (workshops.markdown, which uses the layout workshops.html) that (in the layout) iterates of the workshops collection, and this does render my page title, date and (if I ask it to) the contents of the file on this static page. Therefore, the only issue is the generation of the static page/file in the _site directory.

I have followed a bunch of other tutorials and questions/answers on how to fix this as well, but nothing has helped so far. I am pretty sure I am the problem, but I just don’t get it.

Your help is very much appreciated!

2

have you tried changing this to true? if it is set to false it won’t output any pages by default.

3

From Jekyll’s documentation on collections :

When defining a collection as a sequence, its pages will not be rendered by default. To enable this, output: true must be specified on the collection, which requires defining the collection as a mapping. For more information, see the section Output.

4

The error was that I had a page (_pages/workshops.markdown) generated into an index file _site/workshops/index.html. This interfered with the collection called workshops. All was fixed once I added the line permalink: /workshops.html to the header of _pages/workshops.markdown. This, unfortunately, is not in the collections documentation, and I think should be.