Templating with subfoldered global data using frontmatter variables

[jewellscott]

Describe the bug, expected behavior

I have a bunch of .json files in a subfolder under _data, so the file structure is _data/projects/projectid.json.

I'm pulling in data from these pages to populate a case study blog post, in which I specify a title, the layout, and the projectID.

I'm expecting {{ projects.projectID.title }} to give me the value of the title key in the file _/data/projects/cats.json if I specify projectID: 'cats' in the frontmatter, but it doesn't.

To Reproduce

1. Calling {{ projectID }} in the template does populate with the projectID of cats as it should.
2. Calling {{ projects.cats.title }} works, populating with the title of the Cats project.
3. Calling {{ projects.projectID.title }} doesn't work. Theoretically, the template would populate projectID with cats as I have assigned and output like Install hangs - dependency slug-rfc asking for a passphrase #2, but it doesn't.

So to be clear, I get

• {{ projectID }} cats
• {{ projects.cats.title }} Cats: A fancy project title
• {{ projects.projectID.title }} [ nothing ]

My guess is that eleventy is trying to find the title of a file called projectID.json that doesn't actually exist, but I have no idea how to circumvent that. I tried nesting the variable with handlebars and that returned errors. , and none of them worked. Any thoughts?

Additional context
My guess is that eleventy is trying to find the title of a file called projectID.json that doesn't actually exist, but I have no idea how to circumvent that. I tried nesting the variable with handlebars and that returned errors.

[pdehaan]

I’m not at a laptop, but try {{ projects[projectID].title }}.

[jewellscott]

I’m not at a laptop, but try {{ projects[projectID].title }}.

Thank you! I wish I would've just asked hours ago. Lol