How to specify file locations in the file manager app?

emily.dragowsky · July 20, 2021, 10:57pm

From the release notes:
The left hand navigation tree is replaced with a list of the file location shortcuts

How does one specify these shortcuts?
At the moment, my only such shortcut is:
[displayed text] Home Directory
[from copy link] CWRU Single Sign-On

Thanks in advance
~ Em

jeff.ohrstrom · July 21, 2021, 2:28am

It’s this customization here where you add to OodFilesApp.candidate_favorite_paths.

https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/customization.html#add-shortcuts-to-files-menu

emily.dragowsky · July 21, 2021, 2:43am

Thanks, Jeff – much appreciated. I’ll work with my colleagues to figure out the details to meet our needs. What I hadn’t appreciated from the doc was that this was customizable by admins only (which is cool – that’s fine). Good to know.

jeff.ohrstrom · July 21, 2021, 2:50am

Cool - here’s ours for reference, we just list our scratch and project directories. Now that you remind me, we need to update the docs with what we’ve done - if there’s an outage on our GPFS filesystems these calls to list them will hang which will then freeze up OnDemand. So as a short circuit, we won’t add those locations if they’re in fact in an outage.

github.com

OSC/osc-ood-config/blob/master/ondemand.osc.edu/apps/dashboard/initializers/ood.rb


def add_paths
  OodFilesApp.candidate_favorite_paths.tap do |paths|
    # add project space directories
    projects = User.new.groups.map(&:name).grep(/^P./)
    paths.concat projects.map { |p| Pathname.new("/fs/project/#{p}")  }

    # add scratch space directories
    paths << Pathname.new("/fs/scratch/#{User.new.name}")
    paths.concat projects.map { |p| Pathname.new("/fs/scratch/#{p}")  }

    # add ess scratch and project directories
    paths.concat projects.map { |p| Pathname.new("/fs/ess/scratch/#{p}")  }
    paths.concat projects.map { |p| Pathname.new("/fs/ess/#{p}")  }
  end
end

fs_outage = `grep node_file_test_failure /var/lib/node_exporter/textfile_collector/autofs-file-test.prom | grep -q ' 1'; echo $?`
add_paths unless fs_outage.chomp == "0"

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