Skip Levels

Summary

• type: ``
• default: ``
• required: ``

Description

If set, determines how many levels of children to skip when making the collection. For example, you might have the following hierarchy

Example

Given a directory with the following notes

- blog.md
- blog.reading.md
- blog.reading.journal.md
- blog.reading.journal.2020.md
- blog.reading.journal.2020.12.md
- blog.reading.journal.2020.12.20.one.md
- blog.reading.journal.2020.12.31.two.md

and the following set in blog.reading

skipLevels: 3

When you publish, you might only want to show the leaf nodes and skip the intermediary levels. In the above example, setting skipLevels: 3 on blog.reading.md will result in the following hierarchy being published.

- blog.md
- blog.reading.md
- blog.reading.journal.2020.12.20.one.md
- blog.reading.journal.2020.12.31.two.md

• NOTE: when you set skipLevels, this also affects children links

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