Add a "feature" for admins to insert HTML into the new dashboard

[first-timers]

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If that's you, we're interested in helping you take the first step and can answer questions and help you out as you do. Note that we're especially interested in contributions from people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software!

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🤔 What you will need to know.

Nothing. This issue is meant to welcome you to Open Source :) We are happy to walk you through the process.

We'll be adding a little customizable HTML section to the new dashboard page, found at:

It'll appear between "Nearby Activity" and "Follow more topics" on that page: https://publiclab.org/v2/dashboard/

📋 Step by Step

• 🙋 Claim this issue: Comment below. If someone else has claimed it, ask if they've opened a pull request already and if they're stuck -- maybe you can help them solve a problem or move it along!

• 📝 Update the file app/views/dashboard_v2/_sidebar.html.erb in the plots2 repository (press the little pen Icon) and edit the line as shown below.

See this page for some help in taking your first steps!

Below is a "diff" showing in red (and a -) which lines to remove, and in green (and a +) which lines to add:

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
           </a>
       </h4>
     </div>
+
+    <%= feature('dashboard-sidebar-top') %>
+
     <div id="moreTopics" class="collapse show" aria-labelledby="headingOne" data-parent="#accordion">
       <div class="card-body">
         <small class="form-grey"><%= translation('dashboard_v2.sidebar.add_topics') %> <a href="#" class="form-grey" style="text-decoration: underline;"><%= translation('dashboard_v2.sidebar.learn_more') %></a></small>

• 💾 Commit your changes

• 🔀 Start a Pull Request. There are two ways how you can start a pull request:

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2. If you are familiar with the terminal or would like to learn to use it, here is a great tutorial on how to send a pull request using the terminal.

3. You can also edit files directly in your browser and open a pull request from there.

• 🏁 Done Ask in comments for a review :)

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🤔❓ Questions?

Leave a comment below!

[Shreyas220]

Hi, can i take this up ?

[saraswathy-krish]

Hello, I am a first-time contributor here and looking for a first-timers-only issue. Is the issue still up for grabs?Thanks!

[Diptime]

Hey there. Can I work on this issue ? Looking forward to it .

[RuthNjeri]

Thanks for the interest @saraswathy-krish and @Diptime. @Shreyas220 has already shared a working PR for this issue. Feel free to add your name here if you still haven't found an issue to work on #9083