Modifying the CMS' create course page

[M. L. AARIZOU]

Hello everyone,

I want to change a litte bit the "create course" page on the openEdx Studio. Actually, I want to add a button component to be able to import a java applet application to the course. I tried to find the html file which is responsible of publishing courses just to get the context and the idea of the all think. But I juste get lost in all the views.py, the urls and thousands of other files. 

Any leak please? Thank you in advance 

[Andy Armstrong]

That is a good question. Here are some hints on how to get started adding code to Studio:

1. Use cms/urls.py to find the view that handles the page you are interested in

For example, the URL for the main course outline page is /course/COURSE_ID. You can see the URL definition here:

  

  url(r'^course/{}?$'.format(settings.COURSE_KEY_PATTERN), 'course_handler', name='course_handler'),

https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TNL/How+to+add+a+new+page+to+LMS+or+Studio

2. Find the view handler 

In this case, the method is called course_handler, which my IDE tells me is defined in cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/course.py. If you look at the "GET" clause, this in turn calls the function course_index.

3. Determine the template being used

Looking in course_index, you can see that it renders the template "course_outline.html". You can find this file in cms/templates/course_outline.html

Is that enough to get you started? When you are ready to start writing code, there's a lot of useful guidance here:

https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TNL/How+to+add+a+new+page+to+LMS+or+Studio

I hope this helps.

 - Andy

  

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[M. L. AARIZOU]

Yes this is very helpful. Actually I started as yous said but I get lost in ths second step. I found that the URL is define by component_handler which is defined in views.component.py but then I didn't know how to continue. Thank you, I will teke a look. 

In the other hand I got a suggestion from the slack comunity to forget about changing the code because it will be very difficult and insteed use the existent components to add the applet