[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Advice on Custom Theming

[Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g)]

I believe you are running into Rails defaults before the ASpace plugins come into play.


As I test, I added the line  'layout "custom"' to frontend/app/controllers/application_controller.rb.

It will then use layouts/custom.html.erb, and that layout appears  to work if that file is in either frontend/app/views/layouts/  or  plugins/local/frontend/views/layouts/ .


However, If I try moving the edited copy of application_controller.rb to the plugins/local/frontend/controllers/ directory, it no longer works as the default application controller is what the base class for all other controllers. Perhaps making the plugins extensible on this level would require adding a conditional check for plugin layouts in base application_controller .



Instead of deep mods, another possible way is patching it after the fact with javascript.

You could try adding something like the following  to plugins/local/frontend/views/layout_head.html.erb:



<script type="text/javascript">
  $( function() {
      $('.container-fluid').removeClass('container-fluid').addClass('container');
  });
</script>



-- Steve Majewski / UVA Alderman Library
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From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Chelsea Lobdell <clobdel1 at swarthmore.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:04:40 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Advice on Custom Theming

Hi Archivesspace,

I'm looking for some advice on how to get started with custom theming. I've been reviewing this custom theming documentation:
https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/CUSTOMIZING_THEMING.md
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The initial change I'm trying to make is really simple. In layouts/application.html.erb I just need to change the header, navigation and maincontent from container-fluid to container to match the style of the other applications in our application suite.

My first attempt was to add archivesspace/plugins/local/frontend/views/layouts/application.html.erb and to make the appropriate changes. However, after a restart I am not seeing my changes. Can anyone advise me on how to get this working?

I also recognize that application.html.erb is a pretty important file to be customizing. If anybody has advice on how best to approach this, I would appreciate it.

- Chelsea
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Chelsea Lobdell
Library Web Developer/ Swarthmore College
clobdel1 at swarthmore.edu<mailto:clobdel1 at swarthmore.edu> / (610)690-6818
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