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Eduardo Pignatelli edited this page Oct 3, 2019 · 2 revisions

This page shows how to update the link the a new installer for the bhom.xyz website.

Each link, in every part of the website, points to a single page https://bhom.xyz/installer, which contains the link to the actual installer.

There are two main assets to take care of:

  • Upload the new installer file
  • Update the installer link in the website source code

Upload the new installer file

The installer files are locate in the bhom.github.io\assets\installers folder:

bhom.github.io
  |-_data
  |-_includes
  |-_layouts
  |-_sass
  |-assets
  |-assets
    |-css
    |-fonts
    |-images
    |-installers
        |-installer.exe
    |-samples
    |-video
  |-docs
  |-pages

Upload the new installer file in that folder.

Updating the installer link

The source code of the page can be found at: https://github.com/BHoM/bhom.github.io/blob/master/pages/installer.html

bhom.github.io
  |-_data
  |-_includes
  |-_layouts
  |-_sass
  |-assets
  |-docs
  |-pages
    |-installer

The source code will look similar to this:

---
permalink: /installer/
---
<head>
	<script>
		(function redirect() {
			window.location = window.location = "https://bhom.xyz/assets/installers/BHoM_v2.2.beta.0.exe";
			setTimeout(function(){
				window.location = "https://github.com/BHoM/documentation/wiki";
			}, 500);
		})();
	</script>
</head>
<body>

</body>

To update the link to the installer, replace the value of window.location with window.location = "https://bhom.xyz/assets/installers/{NAME_OF_THE_UPLOADED_INSTALLER_FILE}.exe";

Update the text

There are two places where the version of the installer is explicitly written, they require update, e.g. 2.3.β.0 to 2.4.β.0. In the _includes/why.html file, search for <span class="fas fa-arrow-down x2"> (you can CTRL + F in most browsers), you'll find two occurrences. This is how they look like at the time of writing:

  1. Desktop version
<div class="col right">
<a class="button-link noborder" href="{{ "installer" | relative_url }}"><span class="fas fa-arrow-down x2"></span><span class="new">New!</span> 2.3.β.0 installer</a></button>
</div>
  1. Mobile version
<div class="col s-and-lower left">
<a class=" button-link noborder" href="{{ "installer" | relative_url }}"><span class="fas fa-arrow-down x2"></span><span class="new">New 2.3.β.0 installer!</span></a>
</div>
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