Adding Support Email and URL to Help Menu

I’ve added a support email and URL to /etc/ood/config/apps/dashboard/env, per the customization documentation. But I only get a “Contact Support” link in the dashboard dropdown help menu that points to the support URL. I am using version 1.6.

Does that file look similar to https://github.com/OSC/osc-ood-config/blob/5d057ea16cf1e8792465b1130b42ade4087ce4d8/ondemand.osc.edu/apps/dashboard/env#L5-L6?

Also you will need to click “Help => Restart Web Server” to see the effect.

Yes it follows the syntax. I did restart the web server. I think I had the same issue in 1.5 as well.

Oh I misread that you were expecting the support email to appear in the dropdown. It does state that in the documentation:

https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/release-1.6/customization.html#add-urls-to-help-menu

Support Email OOD_DASHBOARD_SUPPORT_EMAIL oschelp@osc.edu

And this is incorrect in that that env var is actually only currently used in one location - a register page that shows an error if you are not a registered developer. I’ll remove this line from that table in the documentation.

If you want to display a link for sending an email, one way is to modify the text on the dashboard’s homepage. You can do that Customization — Open OnDemand 1.6.7 documentation and in particular Customization — Open OnDemand 1.6.7 documentation. Your custom yaml locale file might look like:

en:
  dashboard:
    welcome_html: |
      %{logo_img_tag}
      <p class="lead">OnDemand provides an integrated, single access point for all of your HPC resources.</p>
      <p>For help, <a href="https://uri/to/support">email support</a></p>

And you would get a result like:

Thanks! I’ll try the suggested method.