User Documentation
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Getting Started
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Install Requirements with Vagrant
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Need VirtualBox and Vagrant installed
Run the following command to create and up the colab virtual machine
.. code-block:: shell
$ vagrant up
Run the following command to access colab virtual machine
.. code-block:: shell
$ vagrant ssh
Install Requirements without Vagrant
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Install virtualenvwrapper
Use this link to configure the virtualenvwreapper: https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org
Run the following command
.. code-block:: shell
$ mkvirtualenv colab
Install Development
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On the colab folder use the following commands, or in the colab vagrant ("$ vagrant ssh")
.. code-block:: shell
$ workon colab
$ pip install -e . #(dont need this command if use vagrant)
$ colab-admin migrate #(dont need this command if use vagrant)
$ colab-admin runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Colab settings
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View the following file:
.. code-block:: shell
$ cat /etc/colab/settings.py
The file /etc/colab/settings.py have the configurations of colab, this configurations overrides the django settings.py
Widgets
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A widget is a piece of HTML that will be inserted in a specific spot in a page to render some view.
To configure the widgets you have to edit, or create, the file ``/etc/colab/widgets_settings.py``. Or you can create a py file inside the folder ``/etc/colab/widgets.d``.
Example:
.. code-block:: python
# Widget Manager handles all widgets and must be imported to register them
from colab.widgets.widget_manager import WidgetManager
# Specific code for Gitlab's Widget
from colab_gitlab.widgets import GitlabProfileWidget
WidgetManager.register_widget('profile', GitlabProfileWidget())
In this example the Gitlab's widget is added in a new tab inside the user profile.
Add a new plugin
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- Atention: replace the brackets, [], for the content presented in the brackets
- Make sure the application has the following requirements
- Support for remote user authentication
- A relative url root
- A relative static url root, for change url's of css and javascript
- Create the plugin configuration for the application
- on folder: /etc/colab/plugins.d/
- create file: [plugin_name].py
- Atention: Any URL used in the plugins' settings should not be preceded by "/"
Use this template for the plugin configuration file
.. code-block:: python
from colab.plugins.utils.menu import colab_url_factory
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
name = 'colab.plugins.[plugin_name]'
upstream = 'http://[host_of_application]/[relative_url_root]/'
# The private_token is optional
# It is used to access the application data being coupled to colab
# It is recommended to use the provate_token an admin of the application
private_token = '[plugin_private_token_for_data_import]'
urls = {
'include': '[plugin_module_path].urls',
'prefix': '[application_prefix]/', # Exemple: http://site.com/[application_prefix]/
}
menu_title = '[menu_title_of_html]'
url = colab_url_factory('[plugin_name]')
menu_urls = {
url(display=_('[name_of_link_page]'), viewname='[name_of_view_in_the_application]', kwargs={'path': '[page_appication_path]/' }, auth=True),
# You can have more than one url
url(display=_('[name_of_link_page]'), viewname='[another_name_of_view_in_the_application]', kwargs={'path': '[another_page_appication_path]/' }, auth=True),
}
Plugins
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.. attribute:: name
Declares the absolute name of the plugin app as a python import path. Example:
directory.something.someplugin
.. attribute:: verbose_name
Delclare the description name of the plugin.
.. attribute:: upstream
Declares the upstream server url of the proxy. Only declare if the plugin is a
proxy.
.. attribute:: middlewares
Declares the middlewares of the plugin in a list format.
.. attribute:: context_processors
Declares the context processors of the plugin in a list format too.
.. attribute:: dependency
Declares the additional installed apps that this plugin depends on.
This doesn't automatically install the python dependecies, only add to django
apps.
.. attribute:: password_validators
A lista of functions to validade password in the moment it's set.
This allows plugins to define their own password validators. For
example if the proxied app requires the password to have at least
one upper case character it should provide a password validator
for that.
urls
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.. attribute:: include
Declares the include urls.
.. attribute:: prefix
Declares the prefix for the url.
- Atention: Any URL used in the plugins' settings should not be preceded by "/"
menu
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These variables defines the menu title and links of the plugin.
.. attribute:: menu_title
Declares the menu title.
.. attribute:: menu_urls
Declares the menu items and its links.
This should be a tuple object with several colab_url elements.
The colab_url_factory creates a factory for your links along with your
namespace.
The auth parameter indicates wether the link should only be displayed when
the user is logged in.
The ``kwargs`` parameter receives a dict, where the key ``path`` should be
a path URL to the page. Remember that this path is a URL, therefore it
should never be preceded by "/".
Example:
.. code-block:: python
from colab.plugins.utils.menu import colab_url_factory
url = colab_url_factory('plugin_app_name')
menu_urls = (
url(display=_('Profile'), viewname='profile', kwargs={'path': 'profile/'}, auth=True),
url(display=_('Profile Two'), viewname='profile2', kwargs={'path': 'profile/2'}, auth=True),
)
Extra Template Folders
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.. attribute:: COLAB_TEMPLATES
:default: () (Empty tuple)
Colab's extra template folders. Use it to add plugins template files, and
remember to use the app hierarchy, e.g if your app name is example, then
you should put your templates inside ``COLAB_TEMPLATES/example``.
You can also use it to overwrite the default templates, e.g. if you want
to overwrite the default footer, you simply need to add a file named
``footer.html`` to the folder where ``COLAB_TEMPLATES`` points to.
Extra Static Folders
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.. attribute:: COLAB_STATIC
:default: [] (Empty list)
Colab's extra static folders. Use it to add plugins static files. It's used
the same way COLAB_TEMPLATES is. Use it to overwrite or add your own static
files, such as CSS/JS files and/or images.
Settings
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Blog Planet
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.. TODO
Paste
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.. TODO
XMPP
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.. TODO
SVN
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.. TODO
Social Networks
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.. attribute:: SOCIAL_NETWORK_ENABLED
:default: False
When this variable is True, the social networks fields, like Facebook and
Twitter, are added in user profile. By default, this fields are disabled.
Customization
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Home Page
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.. TODO
Menu
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.. TODO
Templates
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.. TODO