[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Problem with adding logo

[James Bullen]

Another maybe is make sure you have 'local' in your list of plugins in config.rb.  -- James




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> On 20 May 2015, at 4:34 pm, Kevin Clair <Kevin.Clair at du.edu> wrote:
> 
> My other thought would be to check and make sure you're adding these files to /plugins/local/frontend as well. /public only sets it up for the public site, so if you're going to your staff site it will still show the ArchivesSpace default.  -k
> ________________________________________
> From: Mark Cyzyk [mcyzyk at jhu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:21 PM
> To: Kevin Clair; Archivesspace Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Problem with adding logo
> 
> Thanks, Kevin!  (And nice logo.)
> 
> Yes, I checked that. I also thought maybe there were permissions issues
> with my logo.png file and my _branding.html.erb files, but have checked
> and they are fine.  Finally, seeing that your directory tree does not
> include the intermediary /my_archive/ directory I figured that's just an
> unneeded convention, so I copied my file down a directory and edited
> _branding.html.erb to point to the new location.  Reboot ArchivesSpace
> -- and still nothing!  Thinking...
> 
> Mark
> 
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> Mark Cyzyk, M.A., M.L.S.
> Scholarly Communication Architect
> User Interface Applications Group
> The Sheridan Libraries
> The Johns Hopkins University
> mcyzyk at jhu.edu
> 
> Verba volant, scripta manent.
> 
> 
>> On 5/20/2015 3:40 PM, Kevin Clair wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> Did you point the <img> link in _branding.html.erb to your logo image? That may be the problem. Our _branding.html.erb file reads like this, for example:
>> 
>> <div class="container branding">
>>     <img src="/assets/images/UniversityOfDenver-Signature.png"/>
>> </div>
>> 
>> With the results visible at http://duarchives.coalliance.org.
>> 
>> -k
>> ________________________________________
>> From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] on behalf of Mark Cyzyk [mcyzyk at jhu.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 1:30 PM
>> To: archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org
>> Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Problem with adding logo
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I am trying to add our logo to the top of our ArchivesSpace instance and
>> am thoroughly confused!  I am using these directions:
>> 
>>> A good first place to go is the layouts/application.html.erb file,
>>> which is the Rails default layout for the entire site. Looking through
>>> this file, we can see the branding is being rendered in the
>>> site/branding.html.erb file, which is a very simple file with pretty
>>> much just a link and image tag.
>>> 
>>> So, first let's add out image file to the
>>> "plugins/local/public/assets/images/my_archive/logo.png" then let's
>>> override the default view by making a file in
>>> plugins/local/public/views/site/_branding.html.erb
>> 
>> (This is from the "Customizing and Theming ArchivesSpace" doc on the
>> Website...)
>> 
>> First off, I do not have a /layouts/ directory anywhere in my
>> ArchivesSpace directory tree.
>> 
>> More, I did not have a /plugins/local/public/assets/images/my_archive/
>> directory, so I created one.  Still more, I did not have a
>> /plugins/local/public/views/site/ directory so I created one.
>> 
>> I then put my logo.png file in
>> /plugins/local/public/assets/images/my_archive/.
>> 
>> I then put my _branding.html.erb file in
>> /plugins/local/public/views/site/.  (I'm assuming that underscore
>> character at the beginning of _branding.html.erb is crucially significant.)
>> 
>> I chown'ed and chgrp'ed these directory trees and the files in them.
>> All is well.
>> 
>> I rebooted my ArchivesSpace instance and waited for the moment when I
>> would spin in my chair in triumphant glee.
>> 
>> No joy!  Same ArchivesSpace logo at top.
>> 
>> Not sure what I'm doing wrong.  Advice much appreciated.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>> Mark Cyzyk, M.A., M.L.S.
>> Scholarly Communication Architect
>> User Interface Applications Group
>> The Sheridan Libraries
>> The Johns Hopkins University
>> mcyzyk at jhu.edu
>> 
>> Verba volant, scripta manent.
>> 
>> 
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