alguidelines/README.md

alguidelines.dev Site Source Repo

This is the source for the alguidelines.dev website.

Business Central Design Patterns & Best Practices

This site is meant to house some of the community's knowledge about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central AL Development best practices, particularly around hosting Design Patterns.

Please see the ALGuidelines.dev site for the full information about this project.

Repo organization

This is a hugo statically-generated site, hosted on GitHub Pages. The site is automatically built by GitHub Actions (see regen-gh-pages.yml).

All site content is stored in the content directory in markdown format.

content/en
├── _index.html  # Landing page
├── author       # Info about blog authors
├── blog         # Blog posts
├── docs         # Documentation pages
└── search.md

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Setup

1. Clone and setup

# Clone all submodules
git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1
# Install NPM dependencies
npm install

2. Run Hugo server

$ hugo server
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop

You can visit localhost:1313 in browser to preview website.

Making changes

1. Create a new branch
2. Make your changes
3. Verify your changes locally with Hugo server
4. Commit and push your changes to the branch
5. Raise a PR to main branch
6. Once PR is merged, your changes would be live on the site

Trademarks

This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos are subject to those third-party's policies.