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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 10, 2021 at 3:41pm

It's not that important

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    Question is, is having Wekan Open Source and free for commercial use enough for someone to spend their time contributing to Wekan docs etc

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      January 10, 2021 at 10:08pm

      Well, I added back to Wekan website link to this community

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        And already moved wiki back to original location

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          January 10, 2021 at 11:16pm

          I can not afford to pay anyone else for combining docs info

            yeah, I understand. but maybe someone from the community can take on that task one day. :)

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              It's not that important

                good docs are quite important I think. but of course it takes time and effort, so I absolutely understand your prioritization. it was not meant as criticism. the work you do on this tool is amazing – thank you!

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                  January 11, 2021 at 4:31am

                  Thanks @kuchengrab :)

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                    I have also rejected some website changes before https://github.com/wekan/wekan.github.io/issues/15#issuecomment-654428942

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                      Wekan is not some big faceless corporation website

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                        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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