Changing default categories for WebApp

onex.de

Hi,

I want to change the default categories for WebApp serverwide and didn’t find the defaults.php, where this should / could be done.
I’m using Kopano on UCS and wanted to know, if I could just copy the defaults.php from github to /etc/kopano/webapp/ and edit it afterwards for changing the categories or if there is another way to do this.

Thanks in advanced,
Christian.

marty

Hi @onex-de

You should add it to your config,

for example:

        define('DEFAULT_CATEGORIES', json_encode(array(
        array(
                'name' => _('NumberOne'),
                'color' => '#e40023',
                'standardIndex' => 6,
                'quickAccess' => true,
                'sortIndex' => 0,
                'used' => false
        ),
        array(
                'name' => _('Number2'),
                'color' => '#f99406',
                'standardIndex' => 2,
                'quickAccess' => true,
                'sortIndex' => 1,
                'used' => false
        )
        )));

But it probably won’t work if you already wrote categories in the persistent settings, so if you have used them before

onex.de

@marty said in Changing default categories for WebApp:

But it probably won’t work if you already wrote categories in the persistent settings, so if you have used them before

Thanks … how can I check if there are some already?
Is it possible, to delete/reset them?

Christian.

marty

@onex-de Not that trivial, but you could remove it from the persistent settings via python-kopano.
The property is PR_EC_WEBAPP_PERSISTENT_SETTINGS_JSON

onex.de

@marty cool, do you have an example, because I don’t know, what you mean with the JSON thing, mentioned above.

marty

something like this (untested)

import kopano
from MAPI.Util import *
import sys

# Define the persistent setting property
PR_EC_WEBAPP_PERSISTENT_SETTINGS_JSON = PROP_TAG(PT_STRING8, PR_EC_BASE+0x74)

parser = kopano.parser('skp')
parser.add_option("-u", dest="user", action="store", help="Username")
parser.add_option("-d", dest="delete", action='store_true', help="delete persistent setting")
parser, args = parser.parse_args()

server = kopano.Server(parser)

if parser.user:
    user = server.user(parser.user)
    # Define the prop in users store
    try:
        prop = user.store.prop(PR_EC_WEBAPP_PERSISTENT_SETTINGS_JSON)
    except Exception:
        print "Property does not exist in store"
        sys.exit()

if parser.delete:
    try:
        # Delete the persistent setting property
        user.store.delete(prop)
        print "Property deleted"
    except Exception:
        print "Property does not exist in your store"
        sys.exit()

msauer

Hi,

sorry for bringing this thread up again.

Is there still no way to change the categories for a user once a name was added to a colour? I get more and more requests to change categories because they aren’t used anymore. Is this feature on the roadmap?

Thanks in advance for a quick answer and best regards,
Mathias

robing

@msauer,

End users can change the category color in WebApp (right click on an item -> Categories -> Manage Categories)
For the default colors this can only be changed once but with webapp_admin you can export the categories for a user and alter them https://stash.kopano.io/projects/KSC/repos/webapp-tools/raw/webapp_admin/webapp_admin.py

Export the categories

python3 webapp_admin.py --export-categories -u username

and to import them for the same user

python3 webapp_admin.py --import-categories -u username

Or if restoring it from a different user export

python3 webapp_admin.py --import-categories -u username --file /path/to/json/file

msauer

Hi Robin,

thanks for the hint with the python-script. This was new to me.

kind regards,
Mathias