Short tutorial on how to add a static page to the sidebar (#188)

* Create Add A Static Page To The Sidebar

Short tutorial on adding a static page to the sidebar.
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## How To Add A Static Page To The Sidebar
### 1. Create your html page in templates/cms/
e.g. duplicate and rename about.html
```
sudo cp templates/cms/about.html templates/cms/volunteer.html
```
### 2. Create your css file in static/css/
```
touch static/css/volunteer.css
```
### 3. In your html file, update block headermeta to reflect your new page
```
{% block headermeta %}
<meta property="og:title" content="Volunteer - {{PORTAL_NAME}}">
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta property="og:description" content="">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "BreadcrumbList",
"itemListElement": [{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 1,
"name": "{{PORTAL_NAME}}",
"item": {
"@type": "WebPage",
"@id": "{{FRONTEND_HOST}}"
}
},
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 2,
"name": "Volunteer",
"item": {
"@type": "VolunteerPage",
"@id": "{{FRONTEND_HOST}}/volunteer"
}
}]
}
</script>
<link href="{% static "css/volunteer.css" %}" rel="stylesheet"/>
{% endblock headermeta %}
```
### 4. In your html file, update block innercontent to reflect your actual content
Write whatever you like.
### 5. In your css file, write matching styles for you html file.
Write whatever you like.
### 6. Add your view to files/views.py
```
def volunteer(request):
"""Volunteer view"""
context = {}
return render(request, "cms/volunteer.html", context)
```
### 7. Add your url pattern to files/urls.py
```
urlpatterns = [
url(r"^$", views.index),
url(r"^about", views.about, name="about"),
url(r"^volunteer", views.volunteer, name="volunteer"),
```
### 8. Add your page to the left sidebar
To add a link to your page as a menu item in the left sidebar,
add the following code after the last line in _commons.js
```
/* Checks that a given selector has loaded. */
const checkElement = async selector => {
while ( document.querySelector(selector) === null) {
await new Promise( resolve => requestAnimationFrame(resolve) )
}
return document.querySelector(selector);
};
/* Checks that sidebar nav menu has loaded, then adds menu item. */
checkElement('.nav-menu')
.then((element) => {
(function(){
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = "/volunteer";
a.title = "Volunteer";
var s = document.createElement('span');
s.className = "menu-item-icon";
var icon = document.createElement('i');
icon.className = "material-icons";
icon.setAttribute("data-icon", "people");
s.appendChild(icon);
a.appendChild(s);
var linkText = document.createTextNode("Volunteer");
var t = document.createElement('span');
t.appendChild(linkText);
a.appendChild(t);
var listItem = document.createElement('li');
listItem.className = "link-item";
listItem.appendChild(a);
//if signed out use 3rd nav-menu
var elem = document.querySelector(".nav-menu:nth-child(3) nav ul");
var loc = elem.innerText;
if (loc.includes("About")){
elem.insertBefore(listItem, elem.children[2]);
} else { //if signed in use 4th nav-menu
elem = document.querySelector(".nav-menu:nth-child(4) nav ul");
elem.insertBefore(listItem, elem.children[2]);
}
})();
});
```
### 9. Restart the mediacms web server
On docker:
```
sudo docker stop mediacms_web_1 && sudo docker start mediacms_web_1
```
Otherwise
```
sudo systemctl restart mediacms
```