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informatics-isi-edu / chaise

An adaptive user interface for the Deriva platform.
https://www.isi.edu/isr/
Apache License 2.0
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Links to help and feedback pages should be configurable or generic #3

Closed robes closed 9 years ago

robes commented 9 years ago

The links to "Using the Data Browser | Send us your feedback" are hardcoded to one use case. These need to be either

  1. generic: we could host a generic help page on github in a docs section and a generic feedback form, or
  2. configurable: probably passed in as a javascript variable in the html page which should then be configured for each deployment / use case of the UI.
howdyjessie commented 9 years ago

Can't really think of reasons why one way is outrightly better than the other. Is there deployment-specific content to display on the help & feedback forms?

Or perhaps do we prefer to process the feedback forms in a unified manner/deployment-specific manner? (e.g. separate people process feedback for separate deployments)

robes commented 9 years ago

The current links reference pages (or forms) that are either ISI-specific of FaceBase-specific. What we want is to simply be able to change these links for a deployment. So maybe we need to have a variable defined in the app.html? or some other way of configuring what URL will get stuck into those links.

howdyjessie commented 9 years ago

Just pushed a (possible) fix to a branch. A variable deploymentName in ermrest.js allows users to set the specific ermrest deployment (e.g. FaceBase, GPCR), which is then used to set the correct URLs for the help and feedback links.