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Wekan is an open-source kanban board (Trello like) which allows a card-based task and to-do management.

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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 19, 2021 at 8:42am
  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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