CUNY Academic Commons

Oops! thanks for correcting the assignee, Scott.

Let's definitely try to make this part of 1.5.20. Thanks, Dom!

Thanks very much for your work on this, Dom.

Hi Dom -
Sorry I missed this (was in la-la, jet-lag land, I think). Thanks for following up. Can I try to configure the child theme on a test site to confirm everything is OK? I tried to install it - but realize I don't know what it's called. Can you provide the child theme's name? Or maybe I don't have access to it yet? Thanks!

No need to apologize Scott, I'm the one causing this issue to take forever! :-)

We should definitely take a look at the theme on a test site first. Do you have an existing test site in mind? Are you going to create a new one?

The name of the theme is: "Help and Support Canvas." Let me know which test site you would like to try it out on and I will enable it on that site. Once we know it's working I will enable it on the official Help and Support site.

Hope you had a great vacation, looking forward to finally trying to complete this for you.

Thanks Dom! I have created a new test site called http://testhelp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Can you activate the child theme on this one? Thanks!

Scott,

I've enable (not activated) the new "Help and Support Canvas" child theme on the new test site. I didn't want to activate it for you. Just go into the dashboard and you can find the new child in the themes admin page.

Let me know how the testing goes. Canvas is a pretty advanced theme, I could very well have missed something or configured the child incorrectly. Now that we've got the child in there, we should be able to wrap this up in no time.

Hi Dom -
I was able to activate the child theme, and I imported content over from the prod site. It looks like there is an issue with the header - probably something simple like a missing div or something - but the site name is getting pushed down (should be on same level with the CAC logo), and the primary navigation is also getting pushed below the header. I disabled the slider, which was also feeling the affects, so we can better analyze the issue. If you can take a look that would be great. Here is the link - http://testhelp.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Thanks.

Hi Dom - I did some more work on this today and got the styling pretty good now, but am still having the issue of the menu getting pushed down into the content area. The slider too seems to be reacting to the issue. (I turned it off for now.)

Now that you are back from vacation - can you take a look - or maybe we can take a look together at this Friday's meeting? Thanks a lot.

Here's the link: http://testhelp.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Hi Dom -- did you and Scott make any headway on this last Friday in our meeting?

Scott,

I think I've got this figured out. I won't bore you with the technical details, but basically my child theme wasn't pulling all the required styes from the Canvas parent. That was what was throwing off our layout while testing.

I've pushed up some new code, our next release is on Saturday. So lets have a look at your testhelp.commons.gc.cuny.edu site Saturday or Sunday to see if this new code takes care of it. We may need one more round to add custom CSS if we can't add the appropriate styles in the Dashboard - but I think this code gets us REALLY close.

Dom - Now that the latest updates have been on the Commons for a while, can we try to get this ticket closed?

Definitely. Scott is taking a look at the styling and layout now so we can decide if the new structure is appropriate.

I placed the two new header links inside of a column class provided by Canvas and I asked Scott if that was what he wanted or if he'd rather I place them next to each other so we can style them more easily with custom CSS in the Dashboard.

As soon as I hear from him I can make any changes he needs or close out this ticket if he's good to go.

Hi Dom - Sorry I was preoccupied with other stuff, but I just got a chance to format the test site using the new child theme and everything looks great! On my end, I need get the slider image heights consistent, but I can work on that (Canvas seems to have changed some stuff.)

So how do we go forward? There are actually two sites that need to use the child theme (http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ and http://help.commons.gc.cuny.edu/). And once we shift over, it seems like there might be some customization on my end.

Can you make the child theme available to me, so I can switch it on and off as I configure the two sites?

Thanks!

Scott, I've enabled the "Help and Support Canvas" child theme on both the Help and Codex sites so you can switch back and forth on your own now. If you create any test sites that need the theme enabled just let me know here and I'll turn it on.

When we release next week, on the 11th, lets revisit this ticket and close it out if you have no further issues. We can always open more tickets in the future if we need to continue working on this.