newblog/content/overview-showdata.md

+++ title = "Showdata Shortcode" description = "A brief description of a custom Shortcode for Zola that implements loading and displaying external data." date = 2021-05-04 draft = false

[taxonomies] tags = ["Features","Data","Shortcodes"] [extra] keywords = "Data, Load, External, Shortcodes" toc = true series = "Features" +++

The showdata shortcode can load and display data from an external source via Zola's load_data() function.

These are the parameters, currently all 3 are required.

• src path or url to file (if url, must include the http(s):// prefix).
• type the type of file to load. (supported types)
• key the field in the data that you want to display.

Usage

This theme requires version {{ showdata(src="../theme.toml" type="toml" key="min_version") }} or later of Zola.

Output

This theme requires version {{ showdata(src="../theme.toml" type="toml" key="min_version") }} or later of Zola.