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-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org
<archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Chelsea
Lobdell <clobd...@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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archivesspace/CUSTOMIZING_THEMING.md at master
...<https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/CUSTOMIZING_THEMING.md>
github.com
Customizing and Theming ArchivesSpace I just want to change some of the labels
and messages! All the messages and labels are stored in locales files, which is
part of ...
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
clobd...@swarthmore.edu<mailto:clobd...@swarthmore.edu> / (610)690-6818
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