[OOD-users] Help menu windows

[Franz, Eric]

Susan,

There isn’t a way in configuration to change this. I opened an issue to track this: https://github.com/OSC/ood-dashboard/issues/349

The short term solution of just changing these links to open in a new window should be easy enough to include in OnDemand 1.3. Since we open other Passenger apps in a new window it would be more consistent to open external links as well in a new window.

If you can’t wait till then you’ll have to modify the application code directly, however. The places to look are:

https://github.com/OSC/ood-dashboard/blob/v1.18.0/app/helpers/application_helper.rb#L22-L24 where in the body of the method you would replace target: target with target: "_blank". That would have the side effect of opening “Interactive Sessions” link in a new window as well.

or

https://github.com/OSC/ood-dashboard/blob/v1.18.0/app/views/layouts/nav/_help_dropdown.html.erb#L5-L11 the calls to the nav_link helper method, you would include the keyword argument target: "_blank" at the end of the method calls for the Help menu links you want to modify.

Thanks,
Eric

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Eric Franz, Senior Web & Interface App Engineer
Ohio Supercomputer Center
An Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) Member
1224 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212
email: efranz at osc.edu
From: OOD-users <ood-users-bounces at lists.osc.edu> on behalf of Susan Litzinger <susan at psc.edu>
Reply-To: User support mailing list for Open OnDemand <ood-users at lists.osc.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 11:17 AM
To: User support maiing list for Open OnDemand <ood-users at lists.osc.edu>
Subject: [OOD-users] Help menu windows

I've had a request from our documentation group for the following:
·  Under the Help menu, I'd like to see all the options there open a new window.  Currently, choosing one of them replaces the OnDemand Dashboard window.   I'd like to keep the Dashboard open and available to users.
Is this a behavior I can change now?  If not, will you kindly consider putting this somewhere on your list of things to do?  Thanks very much.

Susan Litzinger
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
412-965-6702
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