silverstripe-docsviewer/docs/en/configuration.md

Configuration Options

Registering what to document

By default the documentation system will parse all the directories in your project and include the documentation from those modules docs directory.

If you want to only specify a few folders or have documentation in a non standard location you can disable the autoload behaviour and register your folders manually through the Config API.

In YAML this looks like:

mysite/_config/docsviewer.yml

:::yaml
---
name: docsviewer
after: docsviewer#docsviewer
---
DocumentationManifest:
  automatic_registration: false
  register_entities:
    -
      Path: "framework/docs/"
      Title: "Framework Documentation"

If something isn't working, you can run the dev task at yoursite.com/dev/tasks/CheckDocsSourcesTask to automatically check for configuration or source file errors.

###Branch aliases for the edit link (optional) When using entities with multiple versions, one of the branches of documentation may be a development version. For example the 'master' branch. You may have an internally assigned version number for this registered in your .yml configuration.

If this version number is not the same as the branch name on the git repository the getEditLinks method will return an incorrect link to go and edit the documentation. In this case you can simply set an optional branch property on the entity which will be used in the edit link instead.

Example:

:::yml
DocumentationManifest:
  register_entities:
    -
      Path: "framework/docs/"
      Title: "Framework Documentation"
      Version: "1.0"
      Branch: "master"

Permalinks

Permalinks can be setup to make nicer urls or to help redirect older urls to new structures.

DocumentationPermalinks::add(array(
	'debugging' => 'sapphire/en/topics/debugging',
	'templates' => 'sapphire/en/topics/templates'
));

Custom metadata and pagesorting

Custom metadata can be added to the head of the MarkDown file like this:

title: A custom title

Make sure to add an empty line to separate the metadata from the content of the file.

The currently utilized metadata tags for the module are

title: 'A custom title for menus, breadcrumbs'
summary: 'A custom introduction text'

Custom page sorting

By default pages in the left hand menu are sorted as how they appear in the file system. You can manually set the order by prefixing filenames with numbers. For example:

00_file-first.md
01_second-file.md

The leading numbers will be scrubbed from the URL and page link.

Syntax

Documentation should be written in markdown with an .md extension attached. To view the syntax for page formatting check out Daring Fireball.

To see how to use the documentation from examples, I recommend opening up this file in your text editor and playing around. As these files are plain text, any text editor will be able to open and write markdown files.

Creating Hierarchy

The document viewer supports a hierarchical folder structure so you can categorize documentation and create topics.

Directory Listing

Each folder you create should also contain a index.md file which contains an overview of the module and related links. If no index is available, the default behaviour is to display an ordered list of links.

Table of Contents

The table of contents on each module page is generated based on where and what headers you use.

Images and Files

If you want to attach images and other assets to a page you need to bundle those in a directory called _images at the same level as your documentation.