Allow per-site About page content

[mcglincy]

I found the About link in system.html.erb and its page_html in en.yml, but it wasn't clear to me if there's any way to specify different text per site, or if I can switch out that part of the footer.

An alternative could be to just edit the existing page_html content to not be exclusively about ELMB.

[jdbann]

So I can think of a few ways we can make this happen:

Custom locale per site

At the moment, everything is set in the en locale. We can provide a 'region' for the locale, such as en-morkborg, and use this to override any values in en without needing to have a full duplicate. So then you could replace page_html with en-deathinspace?

Store about page content on System record

It'd be pretty straightforward to add a rich-text field to System which could have the content for the about page. We do this for the footer content already (where MB has the 3rd party license). It would be more limited than raw HTML, but it could be edited by anyone with permission to edit the system in admin.

Custom pages

I've wanted to setup arbitrary pages for systems as well. You could choose a path for the page and have a rich-text editor to declare the content of that page. Same limitations where you can't do much in the way of interesting formatting, but it would mean that people could set things up in whatever way made sense. (I was especially thinking about the updates tag used by MB as a way to get something similar to this.)

Any thoughts on those options @mcglincy? I'd say the custom pages one would be the most work as we'd probably also want a way to manage links in the footer and so on... But it would also be the most useful.

[mcglincy]

Having arbitrary, editable-by-admin pages sounds like an extremely useful feature... especially since I suspect most curators aren't going to be Rails devs or want to muck that deeply.

Could footer links just be handled by a custom system.html+MySiteName.erb? Or are you picturing the list of footer links being generated from the set of defined arbitrary pages? (Or something else I'm not grokking?)

[jdbann]

I was imagining a whole menu editing feature for the header and footer nav (something like https://forestry.io/docs/editing/menus/ but hopefully a simpler UI). But that is definitely a slower way to get anything done.

For now the header nav can stay as the links to the category tags. The footer could be:

• Ex Libris [system_name] (link to homepage)
• Search
• [All other pages]