Being able to list all the articles in another template than index.html

[almet]

When generating the content, it could be useful to be able to have the list of articles in another location than index.html, and to have index.html being a particular page (one of the ones defined in pages/).

[bbinet]

+1 for index.html being a particular page

[bbinet]

I'm currently interested in this issue.

#330 will allow us to save the list of articles in another location than index.html, but what would be the plan to have index.html being a particular page (one of the ones defined in pages/)?
The pages are currently saved depending on the PAGE_SAVE_AS config, which is common for all pages, so we cannot force a particular page to be saved at /index.html

I would be happy to provide a patch, but I would appreciate some guidance.

[almet]

we probably can have something that allows to make a mapping of templates sources to destination (in the output directory).

The first thing to do IMO is to provide a way for the page listing all the articles to be saved in a different location, the second thing is simple and I think already implemented by the PAGE_SAVE_AS feature.

@bbinet still willing to work on this?

[justinmayer]

@bbinet Just wondering if you might be able to find some time to provide your patch within the next few days. We are trying to put together a 3.0 release very soon, and it would be helpful to know whether we should mark this issue for inclusion in 3.0. Would you please let me know? Thanks!

[bbinet]

Sorry, I'm not working on this right now (I've hacked a workaround for my own website) and I won't be able to provide a patch before a while: time is missing when holidays are coming ;-)
I think that this issue is the same as #400 so maybe @tbunnyman or @ametaireau would have some time to work on this..?

Technical concerns: Don't you think the most flexible approach would be to allow to override the default PAGE_SAVE_AS config directly from the page metadata (as it will possible to provide a custom template in the metadata with #404)?

[onlyhavecans]

#404 put the template wanted as an attribute as the page object itself.

I am interested in pulling this in as part of #400 but just like 400 it is not on my milestone list, that one is too long already.

[domenkozar]

+1 on this one :)

[onlyhavecans]

I'm putting it officially on the list!

[almet]

yeah :)

[bbinet]

Closing this one since with #330, we are already able to save the list of articles in another location than index.html.

The other part of the issue description was:
"[be able to] have index.html being a particular page (one of the ones defined in pages/)"
So this is addressed in #400.