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Wekan/General · January 6, 2021 at 1:17pm

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User Documentation

Wekan / General · January 6, 2021 at 1:17pm (Edited 3 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

January 6, 2021 at 5:30pm
kuchengrab@kuchengrab
5:30pm

Now I did find the answer to my question myself. Short answer: When you're board admin, you can click on the profile pic/the initials of your colleague in the board settings and change their permissions to "admin".

Thanks for providing this forum. If you ever build a team to improve the user documentation, I'd be happy to contribute something like this. :)

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    January 7, 2021 at 11:08am
    Lauri Ojansivu@xet7
    Team
    11:08am

    @kuchengrab Anyone can send new documentation as markdown text added to new issue https://github.com/wekan/wekan . Some have tried to start creating more nicely formatted documention at https://github.com/wekan/wekanhow and https://github.com/wekan/wekan-doc , anyone is welcome to send pull requests to those docs. Currently I have my hands full of coding features and fixes mentioned at Roadmap, link to Roadmap at https://wekan.github.io . It would be very nice if anyone would contribute to docs and be part of such documentation team, currently there is no documentation team.

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      11:12am

      In general, I welcome all new contributors, that can send features, fixes, code etc as pull requests. At Wekan issues https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues is currently 631 open issues. With current amount of contributors, some add new issues faster than current contributors can reply and fix them.

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        11:14am

        Having some new documentation contributors, that would add Wekan user and development documentation, would help new users and developers get up to speed faster.

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          11:15am

          I also welcome any info how I could better encourage new contributors to participate to development of Wekan

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            January 8, 2021 at 7:10pm
            kuchengrab@kuchengrab
            7:10pm

            What happened to this, actually? https://wekandoc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Unfortunately the link to github is broken, seems like the user who started it has abandoned the project ... but looking at wekan-doc, it seems to be the same source. maybe it could be connected again somehow?

            • wekanhow was quite confusing to me, maybe because there is nothing published yet, and I can't imagine yet how it comes together.
            • I wanted to add a page to the github wiki, but I didn't find the md-code anywhere. maybe only official contributors can contribute to it?
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              Lauri Ojansivu@xet7
              Team
              7:16pm

              git clone https://github.com/wekan/wekan.wiki.git

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                7:18pm

                Yes, I did disable wiki editing by all logged in GitHub users, because some created new test wiki pages asking why they have edit permission.

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                  7:18pm

                  Wiki docs are most up-to-date

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                    7:20pm

                    At GitHub issues I have linked to wiki pages many times, and they are at top of search results

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                      7:21pm

                      at Google search etc

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                        7:21pm

                        Hmm, I'll look what kind of permissions wiki has

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                          January 8, 2021 at 10:17pm
                          kuchengrab@kuchengrab
                          10:17pm

                          I made a wiki page. Unfortunately I could neither publish my branch nor make a pull requests via github. But maybe I'm too unfamiliar yet with using it properly ... it shows

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