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Laserfiche developer portal: https://developer.laserfiche.com First published 5/23/2024

Building documentation locally

Prerequisites:

1. Install Ruby and bundler
   • See the instructions here to install jekyll and bundler.
     • You may need to add the zscaler.crt (rename extension to .pem) to your rubygems certificate folder, e.g.: C:\Ruby33-x64\lib\ruby\3.3.0\rubygems\ssl_certs\rubygems.org
     • You may also need to paste the zscaler.crt content into C:\Ruby33-x64\bin\etc\ssl\cert.pem
   • Verify installation running check.rb
   • run gem install bundler
   • run gem install jekyll
     • If fails to download a package, you may need to manually download and install it. E.g. gem install ffi -v 1.17.0
2. navigate to the src directory
3. remove the Gemfile.lock, if it exists
4. run bundle install
5. run bundle exec jekyll serve

• Check installations and versions:

  gem --version
  bundle --version
  jekyll --version

Build the static website and serve locally

1. Navigate to directory <project_path>/src.
2. Run bundle install to install all the dependencies needed to serve.
   • Troubleshoot:
     • If you see error Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError bad response Forbidden 403, stay under directory /src and follow the steps in the dependency issues in the prerequisites to install the dependency from a local .gem file.
3. Run bundle exec jekyll serve --destination ../_site to build and serve the documentation.
4. Open http://localhost:4000 in a browser.

Adding a new page, or modifying an existing one

All website content is defined under the folder /src/docs. Each page is defined by a folder containing a file named index.md, and optionally linked static assets such as images.

The index.md jekyll front matter defines page data such as navigation order, title, and optional nested pages. For example:

---
layout: default
title: Laserfiche Title
nav_order: 2
has_children: true
---

to view changes in the browser, run jekyll serve --watch and browse http://localhost:4000. Refresh to see changes.

Configuring Redirects

To redirect from a list of links to a page, add a redirect-from key in the front matter of the page, and then list the links you want to redirect from in a bulleted list. For example:

---
layout: default
title: Save a Document to Laserfiche
redirect_from:
  - /docs/user-documentation/save-to-laserfiche
  - /docs/user-docs/save-to-lf
nav_order: 1
parent: Laserfiche Title
---

Using html-proofer to test the relative links

To check if there are any dead relative links in the project, navigate to src, and run

jekyll build
bundle exec rake

NOTE: If rake fails with error Could not open library 'libcurl.dll'

• Download CURL from https://curl.se/download.html
• Copy the correct version of the curl DLL (e.g. libcurl-x64.dll for Windows 64 bit) into the Ruby bin folder (e.g.C:\Ruby33-x64\bin) and rename to libcurl.dll.

Previewing pages from build artifact

Steps to preview in IIS:

1. Trigger the documentation build pipeline from your feature branch.
2. Download the artifact github-pages from the your build.
3. Extract the artifact.tar file from the artifact.
4. Extract the files from the artifact.tar file.
5. Create a website in IIS pointing to the folder containing the extracted files. NOTE: IIS may not work if the folder is under Users/your.name.
6. Open the website from IIS.

Steps to preview using jekyll:

1. Trigger the documentation build pipeline from your feature branch.
2. Download the artifact github-pagesfrom the your build.
3. Extract the files from the artifact and navigate to the directory of the extracted files.
4. Run jekyll serve and browse http://127.0.0.1:4000/

Pushing to production

To push documentation changes to production, create a Pull Request to merge into the default branch. The PR completion will trigger the documentation build pipeline which builds and publishes the documentation. You can view the results on Github Pages.