publish to Confluence with params

[cderv]

Discussed in #9830

^{Originally posted by hutch3232 May 31, 2024}

Description

Firstly, I wanted to mention that I found this related discussion: #5310

In that discussion, it sounded like the recommended approach (until publish inherits from render) is to do a two-stage approach: first rendering the document with parameters supplied and then to publish using the --no-render option.

Unfortunately, when I tried to do that I get:
ERROR: Confluence requires rendering before publish

My code:

quarto render confl.qmd -P myvar:"test"
quarto publish confluence --no-render confl.qmd

Am I approaching this wrong? Is it possible to pass render-time parameters to a Confluence-bound .qmd?

quarto --version
1.4.550
Ubuntu 20.04

[cderv]

Currently we don't allow to pass some parameters for quarto render when doing quarto publish.

So everything needs to be in YAML configuration, or a two step quarto render + quarto publish --no-render is to be used.

However, publishing to confluence enforce rendering currently because the format to publish is really machine-readable only, and we don't document it as a rendering format, but is used only for publishing.

quarto-cli/src/publish/confluence/confluence.ts

Line 879 in b34b24d

requiresRender: true,

So to publish to confluence a rendered file that requires parameters is not possibly currently