# Serving with data files

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/serving-with-data-files/84>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [April 8, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/serving-with-data-files/84 "2019-04-08T15:49:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![doomy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/doomy/32/38_2.png) [@doomy](https://zola.discourse.group/u/doomy)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/serving-with-data-files/84/1 "2019-04-08T15:49:35Z")

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I _believe_ this is a feature request as AFAIK this is not currently implemented.

I often use Zola with `.toml` or `.json` data files (I use it for work to display data as a report in a static site). I have noticed that when using the `get_data` function that `zola serve` _does_ rebuild, but does not actually show anything different until the process is restarted entirely. Is it possible to rebuild with any edited data files?

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/serving-with-data-files/84/2 "2019-04-09T18:13:11Z")

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Currently the rebuild does not check for these files as you’ve seen. It is kind of hard to know what to look for as those files can be pretty much anywhere in the tree…

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**Author:** ![doomy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/doomy/32/38_2.png) [@doomy](https://zola.discourse.group/u/doomy)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/serving-with-data-files/84/3 "2019-04-09T19:26:27Z")

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That’s fair enough. It is slightly confusing however how it does show that files have changed when data files change. Is that intended behavior?

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/serving-with-data-files/84/4 "2019-04-10T08:33:30Z")

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I guess if the file doesn’t fit any categories, it could reload the whole site?