Trouble accessing custom collection from inside template file about assemble

[ncanavan]

@doowb you save me again. I really appreciate it.

[assemblebot]

@ncanavan Thanks for the issue! If you're reporting a bug, please be sure to include:

• The version of assemble you are using.
• Your assemblefile.js (This can be in a gist)
• The commandline output. (Screenshot or gist is fine)
• What you expected to happen instead.

If your issue is related to one of the following, please open an issue there:

• grunt-assemble Issues with using assemble in grunt or the grunt-assemble library.
• handlebars-helpers Issues with using handlebars helpers from the handlebars-helpers library.

[doowb]

TLDR;

try changing {{#IndexBU}} to {{#IndexBUs}}.

Longer version

Assemble has created 2 built-in helpers for you for each of your collections. One is a singular helper which will take the name of a view that's in the collection and return the view. The second is a plural helper that returns the entire collection as a list (or in the case of the block helper usage above uses the list as the context for the body of the block). To create the singular and plural versions of the helpers we use an inflection library to try to figure out what the names should be and in the case of passing in IndexBU it's probably setting the plural as IndexBUs. You can force the name of the singular and plural names by passing them on the options to .create:

app.create('IndexBU', { viewType: 'renderable', plural: 'IndexBU' }).load('_posts/!()/index.md');

Of the top of my head, I don't remember what happens if the singular and plural names conflict, but you can try it out if you want to use something other than IndexBUs as your plural name.

[doowb]

np