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Lockout this that cannot be webhooked

Lockout this that cannot be webhooked

Wekan/General · March 19, 2020 at 7:59pm

Paul Verdone

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Lockout this that cannot be webhooked

Wekan / General · March 19, 2020 at 7:59pm

When you add or delete a card, or if you add or delete a swimlane you get a webhook payload regardless of how the integration was registered. If you use universal webhooks (not the one assigned by a board specific integration) you probably get a webhook showing you created a board. Either way you do get a board deletion webhook if you built that board through the api and added an integration.

But for some reason there are NO webhooks for any changes you make. If you rename a card or rename a swimlane or rename a board, you get silence. I tried tracking and watching options and still nothing. LMK if I am doing this wrong, please.

So if I cannot track the user making changes I would need instead to prevent the user from making changes I cannot track through a web hook.

I have run into this issue editing (PUT) through the api. There are not editing functions through the api to rename some things or coloring things. Simple solution was just to change things in Mongodb to rename a board or a swimlane or card or add or change a color in a swimlane.

But the reverse is not as easy. Unless I capture changes to mongo as events there is no easy solution to not getting a webhook back on a user change of something simple. If you add card NP. if you edit a card no go.

So to lockout changes...... are there methods to do that? I see many true/false values that are in the database (no that you can always edit them through the api), but if you change mongo values you can change what the user is permitted to do in the GUI with the boards?

allowsSubtasks": true, "allowsAttachments": true, "allowsChecklists": true, "allowsComments": true, "allowsDescriptionTitle": true, "allowsDescriptionText": true, "allowsActivities": true, "allowsLabels": true, "allowsAssignee": true, "allowsMembers": true, "allowsRequestedBy": true, "allowsAssignedBy": true, "allowsReceivedDate": true, "allowsStartDate": true, "allowsEndDate": true, "allowsDueDate": true,

Can I, and if so, what do I change to prevent users from renaming things that do not give you webhooks?

Thanks

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March 20, 2020 at 12:14pm
Paul Verdone@pvcon13
12:14pm

thanks for any advice I can do without bothering you further

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    Lauri Ojansivu@xet7
    Team
    12:15pm

    You don't bother at all

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      12:15pm

      It's all great that someone is interested in Wekan

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        Paul Verdone@pvcon13
        12:15pm

        I think its pretty clear that tying wekan into another system needs all functions you can do on either end to comunicate bidirectioallly

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          Lauri Ojansivu@xet7
          Team
          12:17pm

          In Worker role, there is a block that Worker user can only add itself as Assignee, but can not remove itself from being assingnee after that. Do you mean that kind of blocks?

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            Paul Verdone@pvcon13
            12:17pm

            WEKAN is cool, powerful, amazingly user friendly from a GUI perspective and the internal business rules right down to the DB is what makes it so. It sports a security model we can work with is represents thousands of hours of code that works well. And if required we can reskin the CSS. Its great

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              12:17pm

              I am just trying to close the edge cases of marriying wekan to other systems,

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                Lauri Ojansivu@xet7
                Team
                12:17pm

                What kind of blocks would you like to have?

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                  Paul Verdone@pvcon13
                  12:18pm

                  anything PUT webhooks

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                    12:18pm

                    change something the user changes sending a webhook

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                      12:18pm

                      right now that is titles of the main widgets (boards, swimlanes and cards).

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                        12:21pm

                        If I get a webhook I can change the assignee/owner/members and add or remove integrations and add other values. So if you create a new card, even thougfh that card does not have all the data fields I need to create a remote task, the web hook gives me the ids so I can create them and sync the mongo or api back. If I do not get a webhook I am flying blind

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                          12:22pm

                          I will report back if I can create the mongo watch eventing just to see if it offers and alternative. Perhaps in a few month I will be allowed to do pull requests. Right now I can adjust my code or systems but not change wekan itself

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                            12:22pm

                            thanks again sir

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                              Lauri Ojansivu@xet7
                              Team
                              12:25pm

                              Ok, so if I would create role NoRename, that is like user, but can not rename boards/swimlanes/cards, would that be OK ?

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                                12:26pm

                                would would set that role to user with API

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                                  12:26pm

                                  I mean, you could set that role with API

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                                    12:33pm

                                    Hmm, other way would be to have in Board Settings options for disabling changing board/swimlane/card name. And also add that to API.

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                                      12:34pm

                                      those settings would only affect users that are not BoardAdmin

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                                        Paul Verdone@pvcon13
                                        1:01pm

                                        yes either provide restriction attributes on the api to entities

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                                          1:02pm

                                          OR

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                                            1:02pm

                                            add those entity changes as webhooks

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                                              1:02pm

                                              either works

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                                                1:03pm

                                                as I said I will keep exploring other options lkike I did for missing PUT api items. Its surprisingly easy to ssh connect into snapcraft mongo and makes small edits

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                                                  March 20, 2020 at 2:03pm
                                                  Paul Verdone@pvcon13
                                                  2:03pm

                                                  Question. I am running on all my servers Mongodb version 4.0.16

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