Possible bug... tried asking about this on egroupware-users, got nohere

[aSteve]

I’m using egroupware 1.6.001 (under Gentoo) and have run into a frustrating glitch. I don’t want to use “SiteMgr” at all - and don’t want to have any icon associated with it on my “navbar”.

I’ve dissabled “SiteMgr” in Admin/Applications.
I’ve tried with “Website” both enabled and disabled in Admin/User Accounts.

I still get an icon on the navbar - it’s called “Website” and links to the “SiteMgr demo”

Is there a clever way to turn this off? Is this a bug? Is this something peculiar to my configuration or is it a general problem? Any ideas what I should try next?

[Leithoff_Klaus]

Log in and Logout, since the Information may be cached, and the cache not
updated.
Sitemgr and Website are to applications, If you dont want to see either of
them, you have to disable both.

Another way may be, if there is no sitemgr needed at all:
Setup -> Manage Applications -> uninstall sitemgr and sitemgr-site

[aSteve]

Log in and Logout, since the Information may be cached, and the cache not
updated.
Sitemgr and Website are to applications, If you dont want to see either of
them, you have to disable both.

Another way may be, if there is no sitemgr needed at all:
Setup -> Manage Applications -> uninstall sitemgr and sitemgr-site

Thanks, it took me a while to grasp what you meant, but I eventually “got it”. When I go back to the “setup” interface (separate from the “Admin” interface) and look under “Step 5 - Advanced Application Management” I was able to remove “Sitemanager” - and this did the trick. I then got “Translation Tools” as an unwelcome addition - but repeating the trick got rid of that… by removing translation tools. From my perspective, it looks as if this could be described a flaw/bug in the Admin interface… it would seem to be desirable to be able to configure this without having to return to the Setup interface and uninstall applications entirely. Either way, I’ve a workaround that sorts out my immediate problem.

The other glitch that frustrates me relates to email… In “Preferences/Common Preferences/Max matches per page” I’ve changed from 15 to 30 - since I typically use a high resolution display… however, while 30 email headers are fetched, the portion of the page displaying these headers appears to be restricted to the size of the treeview box showing my IMAP folders… requiring me to use a scroll bar to see all 30 headers - only ~23 being visible at once. Is there a way to fix this? Can I either make eGroupware force the size of the page to be such that all 30 headers are displayed without a scroll-bar, or - somehow - increase the size of the block containing the tree-view of my IMAP folders? This is merely a cosmetic grumble - but one which would significantly improve my user experience. It seems daft to be scrolling through my messages in the top half of the webpage when the bottom half remains an ‘unused grey’ colour.

Thanks for solving the “Website” bug - and I hope it doesn’t seem rude to immediately ask about my next gripe… (I got nowhere on the users list with this, either… )

Thanks,
Steve

[Leithoff_Klaus]

The eMail display-area issue is known.
I had a look at it a while ago, but did not come up with a satisfying
solution.
I will have a look again.

[aSteve]

The eMail display-area issue is known.
I had a look at it a while ago, but did not come up with a satisfying
solution.
I will have a look again.

Thanks very much… Armed with that, I managed to hack a template file… it would be great to see this resolved in a future version, and not to rely on hacking a hard-wired pixel-size.

BTW - great work so far, while imperfections remain, this is - by far - the most useful bit of web-software I’ve adapted to my own use. In future, it is easy to anticipate that E-groupware could become the mainstay of computing facilities for many small-to-medium sized businesses… it covers most of the bases remarkably well. It’s also great to discover that the project is actively supported. Many thanks, again.