Suggesting an "Etherpad-lite Dashboard": administration web page

[Wikinaut]

Has someone already written an adminstration web page where I can send API commands to manage Etherpad lite online?
This could be started via an additional link on the index.html page, or icon in the pads.

A simple jQuery- and EP-API-powered example framework in the git repository which can fire API calls would be a nice to have and a quick answer and solution to several questions and problems such a pad deletion and pad-wise passwort protection.

I am willing to help.

[JohnMcLear]

Yup, I wrote one in PHP:

Demo: http://beta.etherpad.org/example_big.php?
Source: https://github.com/TomNomNom/etherpad-lite-client

I need to sit down and create a "todo" list of all the other functionality required such as user account provision etc.

[markreg]

I've been trying to join etherpad-lite with my mysql sessions via php but I'm confused as to whether or not I have to edit the settings.json file with my database information or do I just have php combine all thr users and point them to a newly created pad? I think there is another issue open about anyone being able to access the pad by just pointing to (e.g. localhost:9001/newpad)

[JohnMcLear]

Afaik there is a feature request open for "API only access". Not sure if this covers this?

[Wikinaut]

Afaik there is a feature request open for "API only access". Not sure if this covers this?

Not, I checked that, and found it does not cover my request.

With "administration page" I mean something which is

• integrated part of the EPLITE software
• included in the core
• based on node.js i.e. not requiring API calls. PHP
• accessible by the EPLITE administrator

basically an integrated interface which does not require PHP or other further stuff.

[mweinelt]

I was clicking around a bit in your example_big.php script and it crashes the server for me when loading.

Error: [object Object]
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async-stacktrace/ERR.js:46:13
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node/db/API.js:340:8
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node/db/API.js:506:7
at Object.callback (/opt/etherpad-lite/node/db/PadManager.js:108:5)
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ueberDB/CloneAndAtomicLayer.js:95:17
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ueberDB/CacheAndBufferLayer.js:183:7
at Statement. (/opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ueberDB/sqlite_db.js:76:5)

Error: [object Object]
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async-stacktrace/ERR.js:46:13
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node/db/SessionManager.js:178:8
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:199:13
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:120:21
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:196:17
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:499:34
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node/db/SessionManager.js:55:11
at Object.callback (/opt/etherpad-lite/node/db/GroupManager.js:119:5)
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ueberDB/CloneAndAtomicLayer.js:95:17
at /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ueberDB/CacheAndBufferLayer.js:183:7

Any ideas?

[Pita]

yeah, I messed it up

[soul9]

There seems to be an interface here https://github.com/johnyma22/etherpad-lite-pad-manager anyone know anything about it?

[JohnMcLear]

That’s my branch of Paul Lockerby's work.. His work is on SVN so I brought it over to github but I have somewhat neglected it. See: http://paullockaby.com/projects/project/etherpad-user-interface

It requires a new pull from Paul and a bunch of work.. I'm also not sure if I will keep working on it or work w/ some other people to produce a "pad group manager plugin" which should bring it more inline w/ the way the project is going ..

It could probably be used for low hanging stuff but it doesn't have a bunch of key functionality to make it production ready enough for us at least.

-----Original Message-----
From: soul9 [mailto:reply@reply.github.com]
Sent: 27 February 2012 18:52
To: John McLear
Subject: Re: [etherpad-lite] Suggesting an "Etherpad-lite Dashboard": administration web page (#192)

There seems to be an interface here https://github.com/johnyma22/etherpad-lite-pad-manager anyone know anything about it?

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[Wikinaut]

Are any updates available ? I am still looking for a working administration panel, web page, for my Etherpad Lite installation.

The demo mentioned in https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/issues/192#issuecomment-2615654 is unfortunately broken ( http://beta.etherpad.org/example_big.php ).

[Wikinaut]

An admin panel could be perhaps be written as "plugin", but I do not know, how.

[JohnMcLear]

We are still focusing on getting Etherpad integrated into other web apps and not as a complete app itself so this is still reasonably low priority.

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Sent: 23 April 2012 21:59
To: John McLear
Subject: Re: [etherpad-lite] Suggesting an "Etherpad-lite Dashboard": administration web page (#192)

An admin panel could be perhaps written as "plugin", but I do not know, how.

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[JohnMcLear]

Why not just make your own and contribute it back to the project?

There are some available but none are written as plugins or fully integrated to the point they have begun contributing/extending the API.

The API has some missing features that also need adding..

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Sent: 23 April 2012 21:58
To: John McLear
Subject: Re: [etherpad-lite] Suggesting an "Etherpad-lite Dashboard": administration web page (#192)

Are any updates available ? I am still looking for a working administration panel, web page, for my Etherpad Lite installation.

The demo mentioned in https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/issues/192#issuecomment-2615654 is unfortunately broken ( http://beta.etherpad.org/example_big.php ).

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[Wikinaut]

Why not just make your own and contribute it back to the project?
I do not know, how.

[JohnMcLear]

Not to know is past tense. You are just as capable(if not more) as anyone else to fulfil your own requirements.

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Sent: 23 April 2012 22:47
To: John McLear
Subject: Re: [etherpad-lite] Suggesting an "Etherpad-lite Dashboard": administration web page (#192)

Why not just make your own and contribute it back to the project?
I do not know, how.

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[Wikinaut]

You are just as capable(if not more) as anyone else to fulfil your own requirements.

Ok. You said that the primary goal is to run Etherpad integrated into other web apps - I understand that this can be WordPress or MediaWiki (I wrote a first plugin for MediaWiki) or similar. So what I do understand is that everything - for example to only allow authenticated users to access EPL - must use the EPL API.

And I have to program that by myself ?

Is this correct ?