On-site user manual for Alchemy CMS

The version 0.9.x is used to work with Alchemy CMS 2.7-stable

The alchemy-usermanual gem reads your page_layouts.yml and elements.yml and wraps all the interesting stuff into a module rendered in the admin-frontend of your Alchemy CMS driven application.

Users that are logged in to Alchemy can read through the self-explaining website configuration.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'alchemy-usermanual', '~> 0.9'

And then run bundle install on your terminal.

Usage

You just need to bundle the gem with your application. Then the user manual will be available in the Alchemy admin-frontend.

By default translated informations of your page_layouts and elements are presented to the user. If you like to extend these informations with individual descriptions, you can store these translatable informations as hints in your page_layouts.yml and elements.yml files.

Example 1 (hint for a page_layout)

# /config/alchemy/page_layouts.yml
- name: product_detail
  hint: true
  elements: [...]

# /config/locales/en.yml
en:
  alchemy:
    page_layout_hints:
      product_detail: "This page template is used for presenting all the details of one certain product... You can write a full description of what the page template is used to and what the user should consider when using it."

Example 2 (hint for an element)

# /config/alchemy/elements.yml
- name: product_detail
  hint: true
  elements: [...]

# /config/locales/en.yml
en:
  alchemy:
    element_hints:
      product_video: "This element is used to play the youtube video of your product... You can write a full description of what the element is used to and what the user should consider when using it."

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request