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Nick Fagerlund 7a8dd326c6 website: Language: Update links to moved pages 2021-01-22 12:22:21 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 83ebb9b178 website: Add big whitespace separators to recovery landing pages
The resources, expressions, and modules pages were all split into smaller, more
navigable pages, but the old URLs had accumulated a large number of deep links
to their section headers. To help people recover when they click an old link, we
converted those old URLs to landing pages, which preserve all of the old in-page
anchors and point readers to the appropriate new destinations.

However, because the new link-to-new-page sections are so small, it was kind of
hard to tell which section you had clicked into! Especially if you were near the
bottom of the page and the browser wasn't able to position the desired section
at the very top of the window.

This commit aims to improve that by putting one full screen of whitespace in
between every linkable section on these landing pages. Yes, it's a hack, but
you're meant to only view these pages for three seconds or so before moving on
to the place you wanted to be, and this should help dispel any confusion about
which place that is.
2020-12-01 15:38:25 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund a446ecb7b7 website: Break up Expressions page into smaller chunks
This commit converts the previous URL for this content to a landing page, which
captures all of the previous in-page anchors and directs readers to the new home
for each section.
2020-11-17 16:30:51 -08:00
Pam Selle 9f5f5adc0d
Merge pull request #26799 from flatiron32/patch-1
Remove redundant Local Named Values section
2020-11-13 11:39:33 -05:00
Jacob Tomaw 3f9abbc30d
Remove redundant Local Named Values section
The second Local Named Values has a subset of the information the first one has and adds nothing to the documentation other than confusion.
2020-11-03 08:09:12 -05:00
Nick Fagerlund 596e529602 website: Adopt a ton of pages into the "language" layout
As of this commit, that layout doesn't exist yet, but I'm isolating the one-line
changes to their own commit to try and keep your eyes from glazing over.
2020-10-26 18:19:26 -07:00
Alex Novak 82aa2d4467
Correct annotation in expressions.html
`false` section was missing a finishing "`"
2020-08-14 16:33:54 -04:00
Martin Atkins 67311f73fd website: Draw better attention to for and for_each patterns
When helping folks in the community forum, I commonly see questions around
more complex patterns in transforming deep data structures into different
shapes to work with for_each. We have examples of these patterns in the
docs for the functions that they rely on, but they were not previously
very discoverable in the main configuration language documentation
sections.

Here I've moved the "Using Expressions in for_each" subsection on the
Resources page above some of the other sub-sections to hopefully make it
easier to see, and written out in more detail the two specific patterns
that answer a significant number of for_each-related user questions in
the hope that readers will be more likely to realize that the links are
relevant to what their goals.

I also added some more elaboration about the behavior of converting from
list to set in the "Using Sets" subsection, because this feature is often
a user's first encounter with the set data type and I've inferred from
some of the questions I've answered that a number of Terraform users don't
have prior experience with set data types in other languages to draw
assumptions from.

Finally, I added some similar links to the for_each patterns within the
for expression documentation itself, to try to make those examples more
visible to those who might be discovering the documentation in a different
sequence, e.g. by following a deep link shared in an answer to a question
in the community forum.
2020-06-01 14:17:47 -07:00
Pam Selle 213189c3d0 Use a real resource 2020-01-24 13:47:51 -05:00
Pam Selle 885ff69c50 Update docs to generalize/use fake example vs one that could be misleading 2020-01-24 12:44:07 -05:00
Pam Selle 566f22a34e Docs around splat 2019-10-24 16:09:34 -04:00
Martin Atkins 047733d20c website: Full examples for for_each with flatten and setproduct
A very common question since we launched the two repetition constructs
is how to deal with situations where the input data structure doesn't
match one-to-one with the desired configuration.

This adds some full worked examples of two common situations that have
come up in questions. To avoid adding a lot of extra content to the
already-large "expressions" and "resources" pages, the main bulk of this
new content lives with the relevant functions themselves as a full example
of one thing they are good for, and then we'll link to them from the two
general documentation sections where folks are likely to be reading when
they encounter the problem.
2019-10-11 13:41:58 -07:00
Pam Selle 2a50bc6b5a More in expressions, removed extra resource thing 2019-10-07 14:46:20 -04:00
Pam Selle 67e314dcbe Some docs updates to clarify splat confusion 2019-10-07 14:44:33 -04:00
Nick Fagerlund f6e648cc8b website: Document behavior of `self` object for provisioners 2019-10-03 15:12:18 -07:00
Bendegúz Ács 8f9d368a25
Fixed typo in documentation about expressions 2019-09-12 14:16:13 +02:00
Alexander Hellbom 99c59b833e
website: fix expression typo
exression -> expression
2019-08-28 15:16:49 +02:00
Pam Selle 1b25cb7d4a Docs updates for data resources, update expressions ref 2019-07-26 11:22:10 -04:00
Ben Hadfield 0a1c0d6c24 website: Fix typo in Arithmetic Operators section (#21945) 2019-07-01 10:42:26 -07:00
Martin Atkins 127cbeeda2 website: Additional information about "dynamic" blocks
Based on some common questions and feedback since the v0.12.0 release,
here we add some small additional content to the documentation for
"dynamic" blocks, covering how to access the keys of the collection being
iterated over and how to fold multiple collections into a single one to
achieve the effect of a nested iteration.
2019-06-05 06:49:16 -07:00
Justin Weissig aa4c43b341 website: Fix typo on the "expressions" documentation page 2019-05-08 10:58:22 -07:00
Nick Fagerlund 50f76dd566 website: fix broken anchor link (to #for-expressions) 2019-03-14 10:38:52 +00:00
Martin Atkins 36bb9b462c website: "for" expression examples to use canonical formatting
The "terraform fmt" command produces a different canonical form than we
were showing in our examples here. Our examples should always reflect the
conventions applied by "terraform fmt" to avoid confusion.

(This particular decision is a pragmatic one because the formatter design
needs to use the same rules for the colon in the ? : conditional operator
as for the colon in "for" expressions.)
2019-03-11 08:23:13 -07:00
Martin Atkins 0a9959cbe4 website: References to Resource Attributes
Since references to attributes of resources are by far the most common
reference type, and the mapping of resource type config to the attributes
is not always obvious, here we give some real examples of patterns for
accessing different configuration constructs within resource blocks along
with the resource type's exported attributes.

Since we don't have any real examples of labelled nested blocks yet (the
current SDK doesn't support them) I've included a hypothetical example for
now just to establish the patterns around them in preparation for
beginning to introduce them as we roll out this feature in the SDK.
2019-03-11 08:23:13 -07:00
Nick Fagerlund 4a190127b9 website: Version notes: Add new -> old links to 0.12 language docs (except function pages) 2019-02-01 17:20:54 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 9f85e6d5cc website: Update configuration language section page titles 2018-12-20 14:20:42 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund d2abdc23ac website: Structural edit of configuration language docs
This commit is a wide-ranging set of edits to the pages under
/docs/configuration. Among other things, it

- Separates style conventions out into their own page.
- Separates type constraints and conversion info into their own page.
- Conflates similar complex types a little more freely, since the distinction is
  only relevant when restricting inputs for a reusable module or resource.
- Clarifies several concepts that confused me during edits.
2018-12-20 14:20:42 -08:00
Martin Atkins d72d9fde16 website: Document the index and attribute syntaxes 2018-10-16 18:47:33 -07:00
Martin Atkins 39579e8d0f website: revisions to the "Configuration Syntax" page and expressions
This rewrite of the "Configuration Syntax" page now gives some more detail
on the top-level structural constructs and de-emphasizes the name "HCL"
as subordinate to "the Terraform language".

It also now includes some commentary on valid identifiers and comments,
and issues around character encodings and line endings.

In addition, we now have a new "Expressions" page that replaces the old
"Interpolation Syntax" page, covering the expression language features
we inherit from HCL and how they behave in the context of Terraform.

The "Expressions" page currently links to a page about the built-in
functions which does not yet exist. This will be created in a later
commit.
2018-10-16 18:47:33 -07:00