Re: [BackupPC-devel] Webinterface feature request(s) for backuppc 2.1.0

[Ralph <ra...@de...>]

Am Montag 03 Mai 2004 10:58 schrieben Sie:
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> > It would be great if there is a possibility to change what a normal user
> > (not the admin) sees in the left side menubar. Of course there has to be
> > a "status" and/or  a "pc summary" page, but "Documentation" "FAQ" and
> > "SourceForge" is irrelevant to our customers. So it would be a great
> > feature if there would be a config parameter in the config.pl where I can
> > say something like: "$Conf{ShowUserDocuLink} = '0';"
> > and maybe even:
> > "$Conf{UserDocuURL}='http://our.backuppc-server.net/docs';" because then
> > we could easly intergrate our own documentation. We would like to do
> > this, because we only need to give some example configs and say what
> > parameters our customer can / should change.
> >
> > Don't think we want to remove any link to the backuppc project homepage
> > or somethink like that, a link to backuppc on the buttom of the menubar
> > or somethink like that would be okay and only fair, it just that it is a
> > bit of confusing for customers to click on "Documentation" or FAQ and to
> > reach an external or/and english page. For the customers without many
> > experience even the sourceforge link maybe ununderstandable (is that an
> > english word? *g*). Not everybody knows what sourceforge is.
>
> If you want to submit a proposed patch to allow the general links in
> the menu bar be configurable I will consider it.

I am quite busy right now, so I can't promise to find some time for creating a 
patch. 

But I will try to find the time and I will mail the patch to you 
(hopefully)...

I think this is quite important if you want customers to use the webinterface 
on their own. External links is not what you like if you have regular 
customers using the system.

> > Another problem is that if you a loged in as normal user and you open a
> > normal backup summary for a host and then click in the left sidebar on
> > "Config fille" and then on for example: $Conf{RsyncdAuthRequired} or any
> > other config statement than you get a error: Error: Only privileged users
> > can view log or config files.
> >
> > I think it's okay to show the users the config statements, because why
> > hide them these thinks... But then they should also get the help
> > statements to the config parameter if they click on the link.
>
> This is a bug and it's now fixed.

Thx... I will try that as soon as the next beta is released...

> > Ah, just as I am writing this email I found a small bug in the archive
> > part of the webinterface... If you are in the archiv summary an choose a
> > archive out of the list you get the archive detail. Only in this archive
> > detail page there is a "Browse Backups" entry in the menubar. Of course
> > that link doesn't work and only gives out this error: "Error: Backup
> > number for host archivecd does not exist." (for example)
>
> This is a bug and it's now fixed.

thx again... will try it with the next beta.

> > And another question... Why is in at least beta1 a "status" and a "PC
> > Summary" menu entry? As user it shows me the same page ? (For the admin
> > accounts its okay of course, because there it is a differnt page behind
> > the links)
>
> I've changed it so that the Status display works for a regular user.
> Both the status display and the PC summary now only show a user's
> own hosts.  I've also removed the General Server Information from
> the Status dislpay for a regular user.

Thats cool, because otherwise I would have to explain this for each new 
customer.

> > I know, espacally my first request is not so important to get beta1
> > stable and useable in production systems, but it is a very nice to have
> > feature to make backuppc more customizeable... I like the CSS File a lot
> > and maybe the docu/faq/sourceforge menu entry think is even a very good
> > think.
> >
> > But at least I didn't find any problems in the actuall backuppc process
> > :) That's of course the most important part of backuppc.
> >
> > Keep the very very good work up...and thank you for BackupPC!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig

Thx for the patches... Is there a schedule for the next beta? How much time do 
I have for creating the "link-patch" ?

--Ralph