social-media-template is missing something?

[lindsayplatt]

When I run vizmake() with the d3 branch of vizstorm , I get a warning about the social media template being unavailable:

In FUN(X[[i]], ...) :
  cannot find dependency '' of viz item 'social-media-template' so cannot include the dependency in remake.yaml

Briefly looking at the line where the warning is thrown, makes me think that it is because I am not including a social media template in my publish step. If so, that warning might be annoyhing. There will probably be times where we don't want to use social media icons.

[ldecicco-USGS]

I tried to make a fully-functional application here:

https://github.com/USGS-VIZLAB/example

In your viz.yaml, co you have something like:

publish: 
   depends:       
      social: social-section
      vertical-social: vertical-social-section
      socialCSS: lib-social-media-css
...
context:
      title: Testing
      sections: [ "social", ]
      resources: [ "socialCSS"]

  -
    id: social-section
    template: social-media-template
    publisher: social
    depends: social-links
    context:
      embedLink: embed-dots.html
      facebookLink: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fowi.usgs.gov%2Fvizlab%2FEXAMPLE%2F
      

At some point I had worked out using and not using the social icons... let me know if this doesn't help and I'll go poking around

[aappling-usgs]

This is useful sleuthing above. I do wonder how often we won't want to use social media icons AND can't tolerate the warning. Is it possible this is a problem we could leave on the back burner until the time when it's intolerable?

[lindsayplatt]

Yes, I think we can wait until it becomes unbearably annoying :)