Rocket.chat: Feature: Static HTML Pages

Created on 11 Jan 2017 · 6Comments · Source: RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

For my project, I need to build in Rooms containing containing static html (editable by admins). They need the same functionality as regular channels (add/remove users, sidenav, etc).

Would this feature be useful to RocketChat?
What is the best way to implement this?

I've looked at how livechat is implemented and I like the approach of keeping everything in a self-contained module.

Any suggestions will be helpful. Cheers,
Kiran

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@engelgabriel
We're designing a learning platform with RocketChat as the base.

A requirement is having instructional content accessible to students (videos, text, links, etc.). We also need the ability to create/delete pages and invite/kick people from these pages. Currently, we're using read-only channels, but they are fairly ugly and unintuitive for our purposes.

We need a separate sidebar containing only those pages:
screen shot 2017-01-15 at 5 19 12 pm

We also need pages that admins/mods can edit.
screen shot 2017-01-15 at 5 25 45 pm

This feels similar in nature to the home/terms and conditions/privacy policy page. However, it will be a more generic solution with many of the features for rooms.

Kiran-Rao on 15 Jan 2017

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That can be interesting.. can you describe the use case better so we can suggest the best approach?

engelgabriel on 14 Jan 2017

@engelgabriel
We're designing a learning platform with RocketChat as the base.

We need a separate sidebar containing only those pages:
screen shot 2017-01-15 at 5 19 12 pm

We also need pages that admins/mods can edit.
screen shot 2017-01-15 at 5 25 45 pm

This feels similar in nature to the home/terms and conditions/privacy policy page. However, it will be a more generic solution with many of the features for rooms.

Kiran-Rao on 15 Jan 2017

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Another use case...

I am setting up a community project page. Users have different channels where they can discuss the different aspects of the overall project. However, I need static pages where the progress and results of the efforts of those sub-projects can be posted. Trying to bunch everything into the home page doesn't work. Also, using a channel to post the information kills any formatting that would help organize the data, and clutters the channels list.