[Bug] Unable to apply modern template on fresh DocFX project following quick start guide

[jameswilky]

Describe the bug
I created a fresh docFX project using the steps provided in the quick start guide, and followed the instructions to supply the 'modern' template, but no template changes are being applied.

To Reproduce

1. dotnet tool update -g docfx
2. docfx init --quiet
3. docfx docfx_project/docfx.json --serve
4. update docfx.json with properties specified in the docs

Noticed that the default docfx file ships with these settings in the docfx file:

    "template": [
      "default"
    ],

The docs say that it should be "templates", so i tried the following combinations with no success

• "template":["default","modern"]
• "templates":["default","modern"]
• "template":["modern"]
• "templates":["modern"]

The site builds fine and runs but its still using the default template:

This is my build output log:

PS C:\code\docfx_project> docfx docfx.json --serve
[23-06-06 11:19:00.795]Info:[MetadataCommand.ExtractMetadata]Using msbuild C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\MSBuild\Current\Bin as inner compiler.
[23-06-06 11:19:00.824]Info:[MetadataCommand.ExtractMetadata]No files are found with glob pattern src/**.csproj, excluding <none>, under directory "C:\code\docfx_project"
[23-06-06 11:19:01.006]Warning:[MetadataCommand.ExtractMetadata]No project detected for extracting metadata.
[23-06-06 11:19:01.009]Info:[MetadataCommand]Completed Scope:MetadataCommand in 260.6692 milliseconds.
[23-06-06 11:19:01.118]Info:[BuildCommand]6 plug-in(s) loaded.
[23-06-06 11:19:01.142]Info:[BuildCommand]No files are found with glob pattern apidoc/**.md, excluding obj/**,_site/**, under directory "C:\code\docfx_project"
[23-06-06 11:19:01.144]Info:[BuildCommand]No files are found with glob pattern images/**, excluding <none>, under directory "C:\code\docfx_project"
[23-06-06 11:19:01.159]Info:[BuildCommand]Markdown engine is markdig
[23-06-06 11:19:01.301]Info:[BuildCommand.BuildCore.Build Document]Max parallelism is 12.
[23-06-06 11:19:01.891]Info:[BuildCommand.BuildCore.Build Document.CompilePhaseHandlerWithIncremental.TocDocumentProcessor]Building 3 file(s) in TocDocumentProcessor(BuildTocDocument)...
[23-06-06 11:19:01.892]Info:[BuildCommand.BuildCore.Build Document.CompilePhaseHandlerWithIncremental.ConceptualDocumentProcessor]Building 0 file(s) in ConceptualDocumentProcessor(BuildConceptualDocument=>CountWord=>ValidateConceptualDocumentMetadata)...

[23-06-06 11:19:02.202]Info:[BuildCommand.BuildCore.Build Document.LinkPhaseHandlerWithIncremental.Apply Templates]Applying templates to 6 model(s)...
[23-06-06 11:19:02.370]Info:[BuildCommand.BuildCore.Build Document]XRef map exported.
[23-06-06 11:19:02.476]Info:[BuildCommand.Postprocess]Manifest file saved to manifest.json.
[23-06-06 11:19:02.504]Info:[BuildCommand]Completed building documents in 1381.4435 milliseconds.
Serving "C:\code\docfx_project\_site" on http://localhost:8080

Expected behavior
For modern template to be applied

Context (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• .NET 6.0.401 SDK installed
• .NET 7.0.302 SDK installed

[filzrev]

It seems old version of docfx.exe is executed. (.NET global tool version is installed but is not executed)
Check following command results. (if using PowerShell console. run where.exe instead)

where docfx
docfx --version

In my environment. following results are returned.

%UserProfile%.dotnet\tools\docfx.exe
2.67.3+f28165af43dde2ec072a79fa2479f475fcd947ad

[jameswilky]

@filzrev Legend!

Thanks that fixed my issue. I can now create the site with the modern template