Show a static page for logged out members

Memberships & subscriptions
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I am creating a landing page for the newsletter portion of my new site. I want logged out members to see the landing page, and logged in/subscribed members to see a complete archive of all past issues. I know how to do this within the same template using {{#if member}}, but I would love to be able to create and maintain the landing page with the Ghost editor.

I tried creating a custom-newsletter.hbs page template that I can select in the Ghost editor, but I cannot figure out how to route that page to my newsletters collection in routes.yaml. I tried this:

collections:
  /newsletter/:
    permalink: /newsletter/{slug}/
    template: custom-newsletter
    filter: tag:newsletter

The routing seems to work, but I can’t get any context in the template — {{#post}} for example — to return data or even render HTML.

Am I wasting my time, or is there a practical way to do this?

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It would seem writing this post helped me discover the solution! Setting the data property for my collection did the trick. My routes.yaml now looks like this:

collections:
  /newsletter/:
    permalink: /newsletter/{slug}/
    template: custom-newsletter-landing-page
    filter: tag:newsletter
    data: page.newsletter

With that in place, I was able to use the {{#page}} context in my template to pull the content for my landing page when members are logged out. Brilliant!

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