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Part of DOC-2182 (Labs to Solutions).

Adds the UI for the new solutions Antora component. Nothing renders until the docs-extensions-and-macros solutions-catalog extension and the solutions content ship, so this release is inert for the current site.

  • Layouts solutions-home, solution, solution-step with a sidebar step tree, sticky progress rail, meta row, build-along files list, and a sign-in gated download card.
  • "Build it in practice" recommendations on Product Docs pages, driven by the build-time page-related-solutions attribute. Pages showing recommendations no longer get the Suggested labs section, and :page-exclude-related-solutions: opts out.
  • 28-solution-progress.js: anonymous progress in localStorage, signed-in sync with /solutions/progress, merge rules shared with docs-site through a common fixture, sign-in intents for save and download, analytics events.
  • 29-solutions-home.js: client-side filtering over the build-time catalog, URL state, Continue learning.
  • Search results show difficulty and duration for Solution hits.

Tests: lint, the two new node --test suites, and gulp build pass. Preview fixtures under preview-src/ render all three layouts.

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This pull request adds a Redpanda Solutions catalog with overview and step pages, navigation, metadata, downloads, recommendations, and responsive styling. It adds client-side progress storage, synchronization, authentication gates, analytics, and landing-page filters. It updates the shared sign-in modal for custom save and download flows. Preview content and UI model data define solution examples. New tests cover progress merging, persistence, authentication, retries, recommendations, and build integration.

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  participant Reader
  participant SolutionsPage
  participant ProgressStore
  participant AccountModal
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  Reader->>SolutionsPage: open solution or landing page
  SolutionsPage->>ProgressStore: load local progress and catalog data
  Reader->>ProgressStore: complete step or select save
  ProgressStore->>AccountModal: request sign-in when required
  ProgressStore->>ProgressAPI: synchronize authenticated progress
  ProgressAPI-->>ProgressStore: return progress data
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Signing out can leave stale progress displayed on solution cards until reload. This is bounded and straightforward to fix.

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In `@src/js/29-solutions-home.js`:
- Around line 195-198: Update renderContinue() so that when entries is empty, it
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Comment thread src/js/29-solutions-home.js
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Use case and Industry chips on a solution overview link to the landing
page filtered to that value, using a new encode-uri helper, and stay text
when the page has no landing URL. The Last verified line says where the
run happened ("on Self-Managed and Cloud") when the record names
platforms, and the evidence title names the content revision it covered.
…alog

Recommendation cards lead with the extension's reader-facing why when it
is present, the rail entry carries it as a tooltip, and both the article
block and the product home block end with an All solutions link. A
product home page that names no solutions and has no recommendations now
shows up to three catalog solutions that run on that product, featured
first, instead of nothing.
Below 1024px the filters sit inside article.doc, whose <details> styling
drew a grey panel and a stray chevron around the Filters button.
placeFilters() counted any toggle event as the reader's choice, but the
inline script and placeFilters() itself also open and close the filters,
so after a resize the narrow copy could stay open on its own. Only a click
on the summary now counts. Tests cover the placement on both sides of
1024px and a reader's choice surviving a resize.
…n its own

The rail was a sticky column with its own scrollbar. It only scrolled while
the pointer was over it, so the build-along files at its bottom could not be
reached by scrolling the article, and a gesture that reached its top stayed
latched to it like a wall. Its sticky top also ignored the announcement bar,
which put the top of the progress card under the header.

31-solution-rail.js now offsets the rail by exactly the amount it overflows,
so scrolling down shows its bottom and scrolling up shows its top straight
away. Nested scrollers inside the rail are gone, the duplicate feedback
thumbs are hidden, and without JS the rail keeps its old scrollbar.
# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/validate-build.yml
#	package.json
…ction

The overview's Steps list gave the last-opened step a strong outline and a
filled number, with only screen-reader text saying why, so a reader who had
merely opened step 5 saw it as selected. It now shows a visible Last opened
label with a light outline, and the hidden status no longer repeats it.
All build-along files now lists the catalog record's files allowlist
instead of the public attachments. Each entry downloads that one file
through /solutions/download with the same URL builder, sign-in gate and
intent=download&path= round trip as the Download control on a code
block. A draft renders the entries with no href and the "Download
available at release" wording. The panel hides where sign-in is
impossible, like the bundle panel, and is absent for download: none.

Download error and post-sign-in copy no longer point at public files.
Get the code was a second panel under the TOC with its own sign-in box and
an open list of every build-along file. It is now a section of the progress
card at the top of the rail: one Download button, one sign-in line (the
card's Sign in to sync steps aside when the download is gated), and the file
list collapsed on every page. The empty TOC heading gap is gone too.
- Shell commands wrap at spaces; other code that runs past the column fades
  at the clipped edge (new 32-solution-page.js).
- Below 1281px a step page pins the collapsed rail above the article as a
  sticky bar: Step n of M, the progress bar, and the card and contents.
- Complete and continue marks the step and opens the next one; Next becomes
  the primary action once the step is done.
- Continue learning and grid cards list a solution only after a step is done.
- The solution crumb shrinks with an ellipsis, so the trail keeps the step;
  phones drop the article breadcrumb on step pages; Last verified wraps.
- Outcomes show check marks, not empty boxes; figures show zoom-in; notes
  under In production drop their repeated label; Complete source bars are
  larger; Expected output blocks lose the language label and Ask AI;
  localhost URLs inside inline code are not links.
- No Solutions header link on Solutions pages; Featured shows only in a
  catalog of 7 or more; cards say Runs on Cloud; the filters toggle has a
  chevron.
The solution crumb shrinks to 11rem at most, so the step crumb is not
squeezed to nothing in the 400px the header leaves. On phones .content is
a scroll container (main.css), which pinned the sticky step bar to a box
that never scrolls; overflow: clip clips without being one. Notes under
In production lose the top gap the hidden label left.
… rail

The "Complete source" bars on solution pages inherited zero padding from
the generic .doc summary rule while adding their own border, so each one
rendered as a 22px pill with the file name against the border and the
chevron on top of it, inside a second grey panel. The details is now the
box, and the summary gets the same padding as the file header so the two
read as one family. Open, the first code block squares its top corners to
meet the header.

Normal collapsibles had the sibling problem: the bare details[open] >
summary padding rule loses to the more specific .doc title rule, so an
open accordion's title sat directly on its content. Restored the gap.

The rail's full-width primary Mark step complete made the most prominent
control on the page an action the reader takes last, and sat above Get
the code, the one thing they need first. Removed it. The copy under the
article, where a reader who has just finished the step is, is the only
one; the script already binds by attribute so nothing else changes.
The code is what a reader needs at the start of a step; progress is
something they glance at. Get the code now leads the progress card, above
the bar, and the collapsed All build-along files list closes it, so the
list never pushes progress down. The two halves of solution-code-download
are now solution-code-download (the CTA) and solution-files (the list);
both still render the same markup, and the two surfaces tests render both.

The section divider moves with it: none above the first section, one
before the progress head when the download leads. With download 'none'
the partial renders nothing and the head is first with no rule, as before.
The step's own file list sat next to the code and was the one place on
the page that could not download anything: plain backticked paths, and a
sentence sending the reader to the code-block control or the rail panel.
Each path that is in the solution's download allowlist (the rail's All
build-along files entries, which are record.files) is now wrapped in the
same gated download link as that panel's entry, with the same tray icon:
same URL builder, same sign-in round trip, inert for a draft, absent
where the bundle CTA is absent. A generated file is not served and stays
plain text. Analytics reports the placement as "step" so the three
controls can be told apart.
Taking the toggle out of the rail card left steps with a next step with only
Complete and continue: no way to mark a step without leaving the page, and
no way to un-mark one. A ghost toggle now sits beside Complete and continue;
on the last step it stays the primary action.
The edge fade and the fold's bottom fade both used .content::after. The
fold sets left: 0, so on a folded block that runs past the column the fade
landed on the left edge, over the start of every line, and replaced the
fold's own fade. The edge fade is now .content::before with left: auto.
The Mark step complete toggle kept its name once the step was done (only
aria-pressed changed), so it read as an offer to complete it again. It is
now an action button named for what a click does: Mark step not complete
once the step is done. On the last step it is the primary action until
then, and a ghost button after.

The Next button's grey NEXT kicker measured 1.23:1 on the orange button;
it now takes the button's text color (4.6:1).
The menu drops down from the sidebar switcher with no height limit, so on a
short window its last entries (Solutions, Open Redpanda Cloud) fell below
the screen. It is now capped at the room below its top edge, recomputed on
resize, and scrolls inside. On a 1100x520 window the menu ended 323px below
the screen; it now ends 12px above the bottom and Solutions is reachable.
Two helpers name platforms everywhere they appear: platform-name for one
(Self-Managed, Cloud, Kubernetes) and platform-list for the Last verified
phrase (Self-Managed, Cloud, and Kubernetes). Cards say Runs on Kubernetes,
and the Runs on filter reads Runs on Kubernetes or Runs on Redpanda Cloud
when only one platform narrows the catalog.
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