SEED Platform Documentation Website

Documentation website for the SEED Platform.

This site was generated and deployed using mkdocs.

Updating Documention

• Install Python and PIP
• Install mkdocs pip install -r requirements.txt
• Create a new branch and update documentation
• Serve mkdocs website locally by calling mkdocs serve

Updating Documentation via GitHub interface

• Create a new branch by clicking the dropdown to change branches on the repository's main page and entering a new branch name in the input box.
• Ensure that new branch is active using the same dropdown, and make documentation changes as desired by following the next steps below.

Note: Each page on the website corresponds to a file within the docs subdirectory.

• Use mkdocs.yml as a guide for both identifying which file to update if updating existing documentation or to create new pages by adding new entries.
• If updating existing documentation, open the corresponding file in the GitHub interface and click on the pencil icon towards the top right of the file.
• If creating a new page, after you've created a new entry within mkdocs.yml, navigate to the appropriate directory within the docs subdirectory, click "Add file" at the top right to "Create new file".
• Whether you're creating a new file or editing an existing one, the current page should allow you to edit the file contents and preview your changes.
• Once changes are made as desired, add a commit message and optional description, choose "Commit directly to <your-branch-name> branch", and click "Commit changes".
• Repeat this for desired files. Reminder that adding new pages will likely require that the mkdocs.yml is updated to include a new entry pointing to a newly created .md file in the docs directory.
• Once you've modified all the desired files, open a Pull Request (PR) by navigating back to the repository's main page, ensuring your new branch is currently active, and clicking "Pull request" or "Compare & pull request".
• On the next page, add relevant information, tag appropriate reviewers, modify as otherwise needed, and finally, click "Create pull request".
• After the updated content has been reviewed, a site administrator will build and release the website at which point your changes will be live. For any issues, please reach out to Katherine Fleming.

Releasing New Documentation

• Create a pull request into the main branch
• The PR will automatically deploy when merging to main.
  • If a manual deploy is needed then run mkdocs gh-deploy

Markdown Examples

Collapsible Sections

To make a section collapsible, you have to remove the #s before the section name and replace them with three ?s. Additionally, you have to add the word note and put quotation marks around the section title. For example, change ### Collapsible Sections to ??? note "Collapsible Sections". Finally, the remaining content in that section needs to be indented. See below for an example block of markdown.

??? note "Collapsible Sections"
    This is the content that is inside the collapsible section.

Image Optimization

Install pngquant. Once installed run the following commands (these were tested on MacOS):

pngquant docs/images/*.png --ext=.png --force

pngquant docs/images/new/*.png --ext=.png --force

pngquant docs/images/release_notes/*.png --ext=.png --force