Collections ignoring permalink settings

[mattes]

I would expect that the following in my _config.yml ...

collections:
  blog:
    output: true
    permalink: pretty
  docs:
    output: true
    permalink: pretty

... produces:

$ tree
.
├── 2014
│   └── 05
│       └── 15
│           └── hello-world
│               └── index.html

but it seems as if it ignores the permalink setting and produces:

$ tree
.
├── 2014-05-15-hello-world.html

full dir structure

Am I doing sth wrong?

[yihangho]

I think this is the intended behavior. See this. However, I think allowing custom permalinks is a good idea, too. Any thoughts?

[yihangho]

Now that I dig more, I feel that this kind of permalinks like pretty, date, etc might not be such a good idea. The reason behind is that collections are meant to have maximal customizability, but to achieve this kind of permalinks, we need to have make sure that variables like categories, year, etc are set one way or the other.

For example, the filename of the content of collections do not have to follow the YYYY-MM-DD-title.ext format, without that, it can be quite difficult to extract, for example, the date.

Thoughts?

[parkr]

Duplicate of #2293. I think we'll need more flexibility as well, as collections aren't meant to require certain front-matter attributes.

[mattes]

I don't see the problem with supporting pretty and so on. If you use YYYY-MM-DD-title.ext it will work. If you use any other format, it won't work.