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A page-footer entry points at a document that is not in the project’s render index.

Q-13-3 — Page footer references missing document

A page-footer entry points at a document that is not in the project’s render index.

What this means

The website page footer (rendered at the bottom of every page) is built from website.page-footer entries in _quarto.yml. Each entry that names a document is looked up in the project index at render time. This error fires when the name does not appear in that index. The footer still renders, but the entry has no working link.

Why this happens

Same family of causes as Q-13-1 (sidebar missing document): typo, renamed or deleted document, excluded file, wrong relative-path base.

How to fix

Update the footer entry to point at a file that is in the render set, or add the missing file. The message names the missing path.