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David_C_Rankin 2015-06-17 05:06:09 UTC #1

Ralf, All,

I was successful in upgrading 1.8.007 -> 14.2 svn (current today). Following
the Upgrade/Setup/Manage Applications everything completed without error. The
Horde pear config/install went fine (but you guys really should have integrated
Squirrelmail instead (same philosophy as egw, same PHP base, etc.) So the
upgrade went well technically, great job, but there are some issues I need to
sort out.

ISSUE 1: my “Home” page that normally shows weekview calendar and infolog
summary is empty.

Screenshot:
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/egw/homepage_nothing_in_cal.jpg

I couldn’t find out where to set the home page preferences. It used to be in
preferences. I can rt-click the home-page and add a “Favorite” from calendar,
etc, but there is no where to select weekview? How do I configure it?

ISSUE 2: How can I remove the extra login_contact.svg, login_facebook.svg and
login_twitter.svg from login. We have a policy against twitter, facebook and the
like and I cannot have that on my login. What file do I hack to remove those
entries and just get the static Key back that used to be there?

ISSUE 3: performance. The overall feel of the site is much slower than with 1.8
and the widgets on the page are jerky. From 1.0.0 - 1.8.0, display was always
fast and crisp. Is there a way I can configure Addressbook to paginate the
addresses like it used to with [A][B][C][D]… if that will speed things up?
Currently I see a diagonal “tiger-stripe” background pattern while whatever
widget is loading loads for 2-4 seconds before anything is displayed. (it kind
of looks like the default Adobe Flash blank window pattern before the image
loads) I have read the release/setup notes and set the cache at 128M, but it
didn’t help. I don’t mind the old table interface, if that can still be
configured to get the performance back. Any suggestions?

Also on the performance side, the new little collapsible dtree like widget cuts
off a lot of text: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/egw/dtree_widget.jpg Is
it configurable so we can just get the table interface back so all
options/titles are readable?

ISSUE 4: phpgwapi/templates/idots/images/login-background.jpg is no longer
displayed on the login screen. Did the setting for this move somewhere? I can’t
seem to find it in setup any longer?

ISSUE 5: (little issue) Does the “Brain Icon” still exist somewhere for
knowledge base? (I was a bit fond of its distinct, but unorthodox, look)

ISSUE 6: Browser is stuck in loop when leaving project manager going to
calendar. I had to cancel the first calendar page request and click calendar
again to get it to finally load. I don’t know if the following are related, but
check of the webserver error log shows:

[Tue Jun 16 23:38:38 2015] [error] [client 192.168.6.102] PHP Warning:
in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in
/srv/http/htdocs/egroupware_142/projectmanager/inc/class.projectmanager_ui.inc.php
on line 923, referer:
http://www.3111skyline.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=filemanager.filemanager_ui.index&ajax=true
[Tue Jun 16 23:38:38 2015] [error] [client 192.168.6.102] #1
/srv/http/htdocs/egroupware_142/projectmanager/inc/class.projectmanager_ui.inc.php(923):
in_array(‘pricelist’, ‘status,times,bu…’), referer:
http://www.3111skyline.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=filemanager.filemanager_ui.index&ajax=true
[Tue Jun 16 23:38:38 2015] [error] [client 192.168.6.102] #2
/srv/http/htdocs/egroupware_142/projectmanager/inc/class.projectmanager_ui.inc.php(730):
projectmanager_ui->get_actions(), referer:
http://www.3111skyline.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=filemanager.filemanager_ui.index&ajax=true
[Tue Jun 16 23:38:38 2015] [error] [client 192.168.6.102] #3
/srv/http/htdocs/egroupware_142/projectmanager/inc/class.projectmanager_ui.inc.php(104):
projectmanager_ui->pm_list(), referer:
http://www.3111skyline.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=filemanager.filemanager_ui.index&ajax=true
[Tue Jun 16 23:38:38 2015] [error] [client 192.168.6.102] #4
/srv/http/htdocs/egroupware_142/index.php(136): projectmanager_ui->index(),
referer:
http://www.3111skyline.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=filemanager.filemanager_ui.index&ajax=true
[Tue Jun 16 23:38:38 2015] [error] [client 192.168.6.102] #5 {main}, referer:
http://www.3111skyline.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=filemanager.filemanager_ui.index&ajax=true
[Tue Jun 16 23:38:38 2015] [error] [client 192.168.6.102] # Instance=default,
User=david, Request=GET
http://www.3111skyline.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=projectmanager.projectmanager_ui.index&ajax=true,
User-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0,
referer:
http://www.3111skyline.com/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=filemanager.filemanager_ui.index&ajax=true

Other than these issues, all seems to be working well. Addressbook, Calendar,
Infolog, KnowledgeBase, Bookmarks, Filemanager, etc. all seem to be working and
the data made it over in tact. The ProjectManager does have a few fields that
are unreadable (See e.g. Title (“Tit”) in
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/egw/project_mgr_title.jpg) There the 30-60
char title is collapsed into a 3-char space.

Thanks for all your help. Let me know if you have any information on these
issues. I would be interested in retaining/testing the 1.8 table oriented UI if
that can still be configured to compare the performance between the new old/UI.
Let me know if you would like me to run any additional tests. I still have
another 1.8.007 install that I haven’t upgraded yet, so I can run tests between
both.

Keep up the great work!

–
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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ngegw 2015-06-18 16:04:46 UTC #2

I’ll do the ones I know.

ISSUE 1: my “Home” page that normally shows weekview calendar and infolog
summary is empty…
I can rt-click the home-page and add a “Favorite” from calendar,
etc, but there is no where to select weekview? How do I configure it?

That should have been set up automatically, so maybe something went wrong there.
In Calendar, go to week view, click ‘Add current’. Add that favorite to home.
Similar for infolog.
As admin, you can then set them as default for your users.

ISSUE 2: How can I remove the extra login_contact.svg, login_facebook.svg and
login_twitter.svg from login. We have a policy against twitter, facebook and the
like and I cannot have that on my login. What file do I hack to remove those
entries and just get the static Key back that used to be there?

Look for login.tpl.

ISSUE 3: performance. The overall feel of the site is much slower than with 1.8
and the widgets on the page are jerky. From 1.0.0 - 1.8.0, display was always
fast and crisp. Is there a way I can configure Addressbook to paginate the
addresses like it used to with [A][B][C][D]… if that will speed things up?

Letter filters can be turned on in the column selection, located in
the right corner of the nm header line right above the vertical
scrollbar.
It’s unlikely to speed things up though, as we now paginate
automatically to only 50 rows at a time.

We now trade some initial loading time for faster usage after, so you
may find some performance increases with the jdots / Stylite template,
which allows multiple apps to be opened at once. If you’re switching
between multiple applications a lot, you’re probably seeing all the
performance penalties with none of the gains.

Also on the performance side, the new little collapsible dtree like widget cuts
off a lot of text: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/egw/dtree_widget.jpg Is
it configurable so we can just get the table interface back so all
options/titles are readable?

No configuration, you can drag the sidebox wider.

ISSUE 6: Browser is stuck in loop when leaving project manager going to
calendar. I had to cancel the first calendar page request and click calendar
again to get it to finally load. I don’t know if the following are related…

Not related as far as I can tell. The browser console might have some
more information.
I’m currently working on calendar for more improvements in 15.1.

…The ProjectManager does have a few fields that
are unreadable (See e.g. Title (“Tit”) in
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/egw/project_mgr_title.jpg) There the 30-60
char title is collapsed into a 3-char space.

That column is supposed to get 60% of the ‘free’ space by default, so
it may be that there’s just not enough room. Your screenshot cuts off
after Start date so I can’t tell, but you may have to shrink or turn
off some columns you don’t need.

Nathan

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David_C_Rankin 2015-06-19 17:03:52 UTC #3

I’ll do the ones I know.

Fair enough.

ISSUE 1: my “Home” page that normally shows weekview calendar and infolog
summary is empty…
I can rt-click the home-page and add a “Favorite” from calendar,
etc, but there is no where to select weekview? How do I configure it?

That should have been set up automatically, so maybe something went wrong there.
In Calendar, go to week view, click ‘Add current’. Add that favorite to home.
Similar for infolog.
As admin, you can then set them as default for your users.

Thank you Nathan, I’ll give it a go and let you know.

ISSUE 2:
Solved

Look for login.tpl.

ISSUE 3: performance. The overall feel of the site is much slower than with 1.8
and the widgets on the page are jerky. From 1.0.0 - 1.8.0, display was always
fast and crisp. Is there a way I can configure Addressbook to paginate the
addresses like it used to with [A][B][C][D]… if that will speed things up?

Letter filters can be turned on in the column selection, located in
the right corner of the nm header line right above the vertical
scrollbar.
It’s unlikely to speed things up though, as we now paginate
automatically to only 50 rows at a time.

We now trade some initial loading time for faster usage after, so you
may find some performance increases with the jdots / Stylite template,
which allows multiple apps to be opened at once. If you’re switching
between multiple applications a lot, you’re probably seeing all the
performance penalties with none of the gains.

Yes, I use the normal icons to switch back and forth between apps, so only one
is open at a time. I’ll try turning on letter filters. Something has to give.
Addressbook opened all 634 contacts at once and I was left waiting looking at
the tiger-stripe screen. Then, do to whatever problem, each address entry was 2X
as tall as with 1.8 – meaning I was only seeing about 6 addresses per-page.
That is 108 clicks/scrolls to get to the last one.

Also on the performance side, the new little collapsible dtree like widget cuts
off a lot of text: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/egw/dtree_widget.jpg Is
it configurable so we can just get the table interface back so all
options/titles are readable?

No configuration, you can drag the sidebox wider.

Bummer - the problem is those widgets to take on the same html/css properties as
the rest of the page when set though the browser making them look awkward. The
simple table was much better.

ISSUE 6: Browser is stuck in loop when leaving project manager going to
calendar. I had to cancel the first calendar page request and click calendar
again to get it to finally load. I don’t know if the following are related…

Not related as far as I can tell. The browser console might have some
more information.
I’m currently working on calendar for more improvements in 15.1.

As you are working on 15.1, please try and provide a configurable old-style
table alternative to all the new widgets. I wish I would have had more time to
provide input/comment during the 1.8 -> 14.1 transition. There are many
advantages to the 1.8 code compared to the new code from a performance and
aesthetics standpoint. I was surprised to find that most of 14.x was from a new
codebase rather than just tweaks and updates to 1.X (version number makes it
pretty clear). I have always loved egroupware and have looked forward to new
updates. This one was pretty tough to swallow. There was so much good/right with
the table interface, please make sure you are not throwing the baby out with the
bathwater. Over-wigitization has been the Achilles heel to a number of good
projects. I’m sure you will find the right balance.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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