Queries

Now that we have defined a data provider and mapped some indices for our collection we can assign queries to pages which will make collections data available to our page templates.

In the following example we find the last two blog posts and make the result available to the index.md page:

[pages."index.md".query]
name = "posts"
index = "all"
include-docs = true
sort = "created"
desc = true
limit = 2

For a complete list of properties see the collections settings.

The query must specify the collection name and the identifier for the index. Using the desc flag with a limit we can get only the most recent posts in our collection of blog articles.

To see the shape of the query result in a page template use a debugging technique like logging the variable:

{{log (json result pretty=true)}}

The query result will be assigned as the result variable to the page template but if you want to use a different name for the variable set the parameter:

parameter = "recent_posts"

uwe new query-test blog
cd query-test && uwe dev