basic jekyll question

this is me not knowing enough about jekyll.

I have made a new collection named _database where i will host several pages. Now they are linked using the [[ ]] technique, which works just fine on obsidian, but the problem is... they don't work on the live website!
I've added the collection on _config.yml as such:

database:
    output: true

but still no good. they just show up as [[ not linked yeah? ]] with the brackets showing! (ugly much).

I've experimented enough (naively so, perhaps) to know that if I just make it a category, as in make the pages inside a database folder instead of a _database folder, it just works. 🤯
Now the problem is that I do need the collection feature because I want to be able to iterate through its items...

Sorry for noise. I appreciate if someone who knows their way around jekyll and this template could help me 🙏

Best,

to start hinting at an answer to myself, i think all the magic is on https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template/blob/main/_plugins/bidirectional_links_generator.rb
now, if only i could understand all of it...

Your last comment is correct: bidirectional_links_generator.rb is indeed where the magic happens, specifically on this line:

digital-garden-jekyll-template/_plugins/bidirectional_links_generator.rb

Line 7 in 40101f0

all_notes = site.collections['notes'].docs

The above works because I defined a collection named notes here:

digital-garden-jekyll-template/_config.yml

Lines 30 to 33 in 40101f0

    
           collections: 
        
             notes: 
        
               output: true 
        
               permalink: /:slug

If you want to add a collection named database, try changing the above to this:

 collections: 
   notes: 
     output: true 
     permalink: /:slug 
   database: 
     output: true 
     permalink: /database/:slug

Then, in bidirectional_links_generator.rb, update line 7 (from the first code snippet) to this:

all_notes = site.collections['notes'].docs + site.collections['datbase'].docs

Good luck!