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Project Configuration

There are 2 forms of configuring the Lab framework.

  • run time configuration by the page including lab.js or lab.min.js
  • build time configuration by modifying environment variables before building

Run Time Configuration

Configuration variables used by the runtime JavaScript code are available in the JavaScript global object Lab.config.

Page that embeds Lab interactive should overwrite these configuration values before creating an instance of Lab.InteractivesController, e.g.:

Lab.config.rootUrl = "//some.website.com/lab";
controller = new Lab.InteractivesController(...)

rootUrl A path that should point to the Lab distribution (content of public/lab folder). It's necessary to find resources (e.g. images) and Java JAR files (used by sensor model type). The default value for this is lab what assumes that Lab is hosted on the same server as embedding page in the lab directory.

sharing A boolean attribute used to determine if the Share link in the Interactives will be enabled. The default value for this is true.

homeForSharing Set :homeForSharing to the host where shared Interactives are found if you don't want to share the ones on the actual server. Example if you host the Interactives on a static S3 site and want the sharing links to point to the same Interactives at "http://lab.concord.org"

homeInteractivePath Path to page to run non-embeddable version of Interactives.

homeEmbeddablePath Path to page to run embeddable version of Interactives.

utmCampaign If present a UTM suffix is added to links in the About box. Set to a string which identifies the external organization.

fontface font-family name of the font. This only affects a few bits of text. The font-family for the majority of text is configured using css. The font-family set in this fontface config is monitored so lab.js will know when the font is loaded. If it is a web font this loading can happen after the page loads, and some dimensions need to be updated after the font loads.

Interactive Share link

Normally the Share link in an Interactive is enabled. The Share dialog allows a user to more easily share the Interactive in an email or IM, and also provides generated HTML content that can be copied and pasted to embed the Interactive into a blog or web page.

If you are hosting this content on an external server where supporting sharing is impractical in some manner you can disable the display of the Interactive Share link by setting

Lab.config.share = false;

The additional values for homeForSharing and homeEmbeddablePath can be used to construct a custom link for sharing an interactive.

The value for utmCampaign is optional. If present and the home site has enabled Google Analytics setting a value for utmCampaign will allow better tracking of users who click through links in the Interactive About box.

Runtime Google Analytics

If the global _gaq is defined, then Lab will send some events to Google Analytics. This is done through trackEvent method in src/lab/common/controllers/scripting-api.js. So if you want this to happen then the page embedding lab.js or lab.min.js should include the standard Google Analytics script setting things up.

If you want this standard script to be added to the embeddable.html page which is created by the build system see the Build Time Configuration below.

Setting defaults

The default values for these configuration options are located in src/lab/lab.config.js. That file gets compiled into lab/lab.js and lab/lab.min.js. So if you have a distribution archive you can change the settings without recompiling by editing those built files.

Build Time Configuration

Build Time Configuration is done by the environment variables. Please see script/setup.rb (CONFIG hash) to check what variables are supported. You don't have to set these variables, default values are always provided. Some of them are set in .travis.yml in a secure way.