Issues with linking help documents to help menu

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Hello,

We are starting to do some customizations of the website. We want to link our documentation under our OOD dashboard.

I’ve combed through the documentation and I have found the section where it mentions how to update it. However when I update the env file, I do not see the changes even after restarting the web server.

I feel like I must be missing something.

Thanks.

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Sorry for the trouble.

Are you using this section of the docs to work off of? Customizations — Open OnDemand 4.0.0 documentation

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I deleted my last comment because I had it mixed up another post and responded to another thread with a user who has a similar issue with shell timeouts. That may be a new post I will make.

Responded to on another thread with a user who has a similar issue with shell timeouts. That may be a new post I will make.

Yes originally I was in that directory and I had created an env file, but it still wouldn’t show under the help menu. I wonder if there was a secondary place to do additional changes. There is noting in the env file besides what I’ve pasted below.

We have ours now in /var/www/ood/apps/sys/dashboard/env
[rc@ dashboard]$ pwd
/var/www/ood/apps/sys/dashboard
[rc@ dashboard]$ cat env
help_menu:

I am not sure why the config is all in the /var/www instead of the /etc etc we did recently just set up git repositories for each app.

I’ve struggled with customization following the steps in the docs etc, we want to do a more customized dashboard but we only have pinned apps so far

Is it wrong to have configurations in the /var etc vs the /etc ?

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You’ll want to move that env file into /etc/ood/config/apps/dashboard/env to see the changes in the dashboard.

The docs do not do a great job of providing “best practices”, that’s something we are working on currently.

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Thanks Travis,
When I initially had it in the place you recommend, I still could not get it to show. I’ll give it a go again.