It should be posted on the R-Ladies St Louis YouTube! youtube.com/@rladiesstl7...

Appreciate your help and pointing me where to ask for more help! 💜

Thanks @tanho.ca ! Alas… none worked. All of the ones with $ just insert the whole placeholder into the gtag script. {{ ENVVAR }} without $ or “” causes the plugin to fail as it’s type object and is expecting a string.

oh promise this is the last one for tonight! you asked for the deploy log... here's the screenshot that shows the secrets are included in the build environment! I just don't know how to get quarto to replace the placeholder with the secret value.

lastly... this support guide wasn't helpful to me at all. but maybe to you as someone who actually knows what they're doing 😅

anyways... thanks for the time you've already spent on thinking about this. but please enjoy the last bit of the weekend!

answers.netlify.com/t/support-gu...

I saw `process.env.` was used in the quarto-netlify plugin repo so I was hopeful it would work but all of this is above my level lol

github.com/quarto-dev/n...

netlify docs aren't super helpful in the quarto context. I was hoping using `process.env.GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID` would pass through using the quarto-netlify plugin, but it didn't work
docs.netlify.com/build/config...

@tanho.ca
here's a screenshot of how I configured Netlify's environment variables and here are the docs I was attempting to follow...
docs.netlify.com/build/enviro...

github.com/jadeynryan/j...

Oh I did try an _environment file! quarto.org/docs/project... also didn’t work…

I might still have the problem of GitHub actions not passing the secret to the quarto .yml files?

The HTML file would need to be committed to my GitHub repo though, which doesn’t solve the problem. I’m thinking I might have to switch from continuous deployment with netlify to GitHub actions? Also ?? cuz I’m not sure that would work either lol

I tried setting Netlify “environment variables” then in my _quarto.yml file, I set the Google analytics ID to call this variable with “${GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID}”, “process.env. GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID”, and “{{GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID}}”. None of these worked to pass from Netlify to Quarto.

Specifically Google analytics ID and Giscus repo IDs! I don’t care that they’re public on the deployed site but I don’t want it on my repo for when folks copy my website without removing these IDs.

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🖥️ Try the app here: wsda.shinyapps.io/dirt-data-re...

I’d love to hear what you think!