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User Documentation

User Documentation

Wekan / General · January 6, 2021 at 1:17pm (Edited 4 years ago)

[Previous title: Give Permissions to Change a Board / Make Users "Owners"?]

Hi everyone, I'm terribly sorry if this question is asked elsewhere, but I couldn't find anything in the FAQ nor the docs.

Is there a possibility to give members of a board more permissions/to make them board owners, so they can also add columns/lists, if they want to?

The context is that we are a small team with several boards, and it would be nice to allow the team more freedom in how to structure their boards.

In our installation (Wekan 4.70.0) not even an admin can change the boards that were not created by her/himself.

I hope my question is clear enough, if not, don't hesitate to ask for more details.

Best, Clemens

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January 11, 2021 at 4:36am

Actually, there has been problems with https://sandstorm.io website that it looks to pro and corporate, when it's actually a community effort

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    to => too

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      January 12, 2021 at 12:00pm

      Hmm, I see your point. Of course it should not look like advertising or a corporation with dozens of employees. It's a fine line ... but I do like the sandstorm page, it's very clear communication in my opinion. I guess it's also a matter of where you're coming from. If you have some design background, you want everything to be more designed. If you are a hacker, you want every tool to be operable via CLI. It's quite subjective.

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        January 12, 2021 at 7:43pm

        More designed is better, if it's an improvement in some way. And still different not exactly same as in some other website.

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          Changing URLs to break links is not an improvement

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            January 16, 2021 at 12:44pm

            that's for sure :D

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              January 18, 2021 at 11:42pm

              As a new user I did find the documentation a bit hard to navigate when compared to other projects. Having threads and pathes of info here and there didn't help really.

              I think the best bang for your buck would be creating some solid installation instructions for docker etc. Reducing the friction of install will help the community grow and help the project gain more traction. (I found a quite a bit, )

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                I found quite a few rapit trails when installing Wekan on docker-compose. I had to piece together info from out dated tutorials, broken github links and then had to further research to find out how to create my first user. It

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                  I keep bumbing the enter button >_<

                  It could have taken 15 minutes from start to finish, but it took more like 2 hours because the documentation was confusing.

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                    You're rest API documentation is fantastic though! Once I was up and running I got going in no time!

                    Only issue I had was with login. Docs say <token> but in actual fact it's "Bearer <TOKEN>" . If there was a quick not about that I could have saved 2 hours of frustration.

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                      January 19, 2021 at 1:13am

                      Huh? Newest docker-compose.yml is at https://github.com/wekan/wekan and works with docker-compose up -d for local user without any changes

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                        It's just that I don't know what is confusing and what would be better. I'm too close to Wekan and know Wekan docs too well to understand how to improve it. Some outsider like you will see it much better.

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                          Problem is not getting community to grow, it already grows all the time. Problem is getting amount of documentation and code contributions to grow.

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                            Although, with new Wekan releases happening every day, with new features and fixes, it's kind of a lot already.

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                              January 19, 2021 at 8:08am

                              Huh? Newest docker-compose.yml is at https://github.com/wekan/wekan and works with docker-compose up -d for local user without any changes

                                I know! so simple... not sure why it took so long. I've setup many dozens of complex services so I don't think it was on my end. I'll try to plot/map my experience to shed some light on the new comers experience. I might write what I would consider an easy to follow install tutorial for consideration.

                                My experience:

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                                  1. found Wekan (yay) and scanned rest docs at https://wekan.github.io/api/v4.81/#wekan-rest-api
                                  2. Looked for install instructions at https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Developer-Documentation (bit dumb I know but this was the first reference to docs I saw)
                                  3. Got redirected form the home page here. https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Platforms - Got confused if docker-compose was viable, still didn't see instructions how to start it.
                                  4. Briefly looked at starting my own MangoDb server as I thought I had to do that separately.
                                  5. tried following instructions here https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/AWS but the docker-compose.yml link was broken. https://github.com/wekan/wekan-mongodb
                                  6. eventually found the compose file in the main git-hub repo tentatively used that instead hoping it would work.
                                  7. Googled around for ages looking for default name and password as https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/AWS has no links to the "Add-User" documentation and I wasn't clever enough to find it on my own.
                                  8. setup an account, and recieved the apparent expected 501 error so assumed it wasn't working.
                                  9. found this tutorial hoping it would include something relating to default passwords/users https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ubuntu-wekan-installation/ managed to get it working, unsure if the manual db manipulation was really important or not.
                                  10. was happy to get wekan working! but it was late by now so had to wait till the next day to test out it's features.

                                  Before I started with Wekan I tried Retya. There install process was arguably more complicated, but way easier due to their bouncing ball style documentation.

                                  https://restya.com/board/docs/ - Easy to navigate documentation https://restya.com/board/docs/install-restyaboard-docker/#0 - Super simple install steps.

                                  I suppose being a commercial company they can pay someone to look after documentation, but it is a good example for us.

                                  I think a tutorial style getting started/installed workflow/document would be great. Make it impossible to miss on the git-hub home page. It need to cover or at least link to everything from docker-compose.yml to login and even creating your first board.

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                                    January 19, 2021 at 11:44am

                                    Maybe Restya docs looks better, but Restya license is worse. I prefer Wekan, but I'm biased.

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                                      I do provide Commercial Support for Wekan at https://wekan.team/commercial-support/ , that's commercial enough for me. Wekan is Open Source and Free Software with mostly MIT licensed code.

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                                        I'm happy enough with those that see the real value of Wekan, and contribute code and docs.

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                                          I do write new code to Wekan daily.

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                                            January 22, 2021 at 12:48am

                                            @xet7 Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say Restya is better, I don't think it looks better and there licencing was WAY to restrictive for open source use in my opinion, they have just nailed the "getting-started" experience. I hope what I shared was somewhat helpful.

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                                              January 22, 2021 at 9:54am

                                              List of Restya docs at https://restya.com/board/docs/ is not categorized in any way. It's confusing.

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