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⚠️ This documentation is archived. Please find the latest documentation at https://github.com/sensebox/docs

Base

Knowledge base template for Jekyll.

Base was orignally made by CloudCannon, the Cloud CMS for Jekyll. Some features has been added to make it suitable to be used as a senseBox Knowledge Base.

Features

  • Tutorials organised by category
  • Two types of tutorials - text and video
  • Ability to have a "tutorial series"
  • FAQ section
  • Sticky sidebar for main headings in tutorials

Setup

  1. Add your site and author details in _config.yml.
  2. Add your Google Analytics, Disqus and MailChimp keys to _config.yml.
  3. Get a workflow going to see your site's output (with CloudCannon or Jekyll locally).

Develop

Base was built with Jekyll version 3.4.3, but should support newer versions as well.

Install the dependencies with Bundler:

$ bundle install

Run jekyll commands through Bundler to ensure you're using the right versions:

$ bundle exec jekyll serve

i18n

The master contains the german version of the docs and serves [https://docs.sensebox.de]. English is stored in the EN branch and serves [https://en.docs.sensebox.de].

How to add a Document

The sticky sidebar in tutorials in populated by pulling out <h2> or ## elements from the content.

Posts

  • Add, update or remove a post in the Posts collection.
  • The tutorials page is organised by categories.
  • use the font-matter to organize your document
---
date: 2020-03-11 //Date when created
title: senseBox:home mit LoRa // Title
title_order: 5 //If you want to specify the order of appearance on the main page
categories: sensebox-home-erweiterungen //Name of the category
description: Daten der senseBox:home über LoRa verschicken //Short Description for the overview page
type: Document //Document or Video
set: sensebox-home-general //name of the set. Needs to be the same as the document name
set_order: 3 //
image00: /images/2020-03-11-home-erweiterung-lora/home-lora-00.png //specify images
---

Adding a new categories is simple. Just add categories: category-name to the font-matter. Please only use small letters and no spaces. If you add a complete new category add a description in the folder _descriptions. Follow the given examples.

  • head will be used a headline on the overview page
  • description will appear on the category pages

include

Post Series

To create a new series:

  • Add a new document to the sets collection.
  • Set the title and description.

To add a tutorial/post to a series:

  • Add a set field to the tutorial front matter which points to the file name of the desired set without the .md extention. e.g. If I have a set at _sets/getting-started.md I would use this in my tutorial front matter: set: getting-started.
  • Add a set_order field to the tutorial front matter and specify a number. This is the tutorials order in the set.

The set will be displayed as the following

include