Is there any guideline about how to edit iViewer's menu?

[Kouichi_C_Nakamura]

Is there any guideline about how to edit iViewer's menu?

In particular, I'd like to add menu items to jump to another URL for Help. Can anybody suggest what to edit? I mean in the source code it is written in simple HTML, but how can we tweak it in the giant OMERO software?

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<div class="dropdown">
  <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-sm dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Help <span class="caret"></span>
  </button>
  <ul class="dropdown-menu">
    <li click.delegate="showAbout()" class="au-target" au-target-id="22"> <a href="#">About OMERO.iviewer</a>
  </li>
    <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/ome/omero-iviewer"> OMERO.iviewer on Github </a>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>


Even if there is a way to edit it, that change will be lost every time I update OMERO. Do you have any suggestion to deal with this?

[wmoore]

Hi,

We don't have any configuration options for setting those menu items.

The source code for that is https://github.com/ome/omero-iviewer/bl ... eader.html.
However, when you build the app, this is compiled into omero_iviewer/static/omero_iviewer/main.js.

So, if you want to edit this options in the source code, you'll need to then build the app as described at https://github.com/ome/omero-iviewer/#build.

The OMERO.iviewer is released separately from the main OMERO.server + OMERO.web, so you can update the OMERO.server without losing your changes to iviewer. However, if you want to upgrade iviewer, you'll need to re-checkout the latest version and apply your changes to that too.
If your changes are under a single git commit, it should be easy to cherry-pick the same commit onto the latest version of iviewer.
Let us know if you need help with this.

Regards,

Will.

[Kouichi_C_Nakamura]

I knew the HTML is generated programmatically and thought it might be tricky to edit it. Thank you for the guidance. Indeed, if we can keep using git cherry-pick , it may be manageable.