Format

The template uses metadata defined in the notebook file (.ipynb) to configure the layout. The specification of the metadata was defined by a now defunct project jupyter-dashboards. The specification is described in jupyter-dashboards docs.

The voila renderer behaves as a “display-only renderer without authoring capabilitiy” as defined in the specs. However, there are a few differences compared to the original implmentation:

• if no metadata is found in the notebook voilà will render the notebook as grid layout,

• it can not persist the state of the cells (i.e. the re-configuration of the layout will be lost, when the user closes the voila page),

• if the cell does not contain view configuration for the particular view type (grid or report) or hidden attribute is not defined, voilà will treat it as visible.