[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing public interface

[Scott Ziegler]

Great, thanks Chris.

I'll take a look through all this as soon as I can.

Best,
Scott



Scott Ziegler, MA, MSLIS, CA
Assistant Head of Technology/Web Development Librarian
American Philosophical Society
105 South 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Telephone: 215.599.4299
Email: sziegler at amphilsoc.org <sziegler at amphilsoc.org>


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick <
Chris.Fitzpatrick at lyrasis.org> wrote:

>   Hi Scott,
>
>
>  Not a stupid question at all...
>
>
>  ArchivesSpace follows the Rails convertions for organizing models,
> views, controllers, assets, etc.
>
>
>  That said...
>
>
>  There are two ways to customize the interface...the easiest is to add
> overrides to the plugins/locals directory.
>
> For example, if you wanted to customize the basic layout file, you would
> put your updated customized erb file in
> plugins/local/public/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb.
>
>
>  Some documentation on plugins can be found here =>
> https://github.com/hudmol/archivesspace/tree/master/plugins
>
> A good tutorial on ASpace plugins can be found here
> http://teaspoon-consulting.com/articles/archivesspace-plugins.html
>
>
>  If you want to do a lot of customization, it might be easier to simply
> pull down the ASpace source code (
> https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace ) and rebuild it it (
> https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/build/README.md
> ).
>
>
>  Does this give you some ideas about the process?
>
>
>  b,chris.
>
>
>
>   Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer, ArchivesSpace
> Skype: chrisfitzpat  | Phone: 918.236.6048
> http://archivesspace.org/
>    ------------------------------
> *From:* archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <
> archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of
> Scott Ziegler <sziegler at amphilsoc.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 12, 2014 4:14 PM
> *To:* Archivesspace Users Group
> *Subject:* [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing public interface
>
>   Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm brand new to the membership, and I hope this isn't a stupid question,
> but how does one start to customize the public interface?
>
>  In what directories are the images and CSS files kept? I didn't see any
> of this in the docs.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Scott
>
>
> Scott Ziegler, MA, MSLIS, CA
> Assistant Head of Technology/Web Development Librarian
> American Philosophical Society
> 105 South 5th Street
> Philadelphia, PA 19106
> Telephone: 215.599.4299
> Email: sziegler at amphilsoc.org <sziegler at amphilsoc.org>
>
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