ZeissIQS-pages

Source of the generated documentation in zeissiqs.github.io.

Note

Please see ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions for the resulting rendered output.

General

• The documentation accessible via ZeissIQS.github.io is generated from the files in this repository.
• The sphinx documentation conversion tool is used for that purpose.
• The generated documentation is then committed into a repository with some special name and can the be rendered by the site https://zeissiqs.github.io/.

Installation

For ZEISS IQS software developers: The necessary tools are already part of the build system. You do not need to execute the following steps !

• You need a Python 3 installation
• Add the necessary Python packages:

python -m pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme myst_parser sphinx_favicon sphinx_sitemap sphinxcontrib-newsfeed

Repositories

• Clone the source and the target repository into a common parent directory

cd my_working_directory
git clone https://github.com/ZeissIQS/ZeissIQS-pages.git
git clone https://github.com/ZeissIQS/ZeissIQS.github.io.git

Editing

Editing process

• Edit the documentation source (mostly markdown files) in the ZeissIQS-pages directory.
• Execute 'make.bat' from that ZeissIQS-pages directory to update the target repository.
• You can preview the generated documentation by opening ZeissIQS.github.io/index.html in a browser.

Hints

• The markdown syntax uses the MyST parser extensions.
• The project documentation is based on sphinx.

Uploading

• Commit both source and target directory

cd ZeissIQS-pages

# Perform edits
make.bat

git add -A
git commit -m "Some useful message"
git push

cd ..

cd ZeissIQS.github.io
git add -A
git commit -m "Some useful message"
git push

• After the changes have been pushed into the 'ZeissIQS.github.io' repository, the live pages at will be updated automatically after app. one minute.