Remove home dir from files browser

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I know I can add many dirs to this app, which is great, but I’d like to remove the home dir. My goal is to restrict uploads/downloads to only a specific location, after which point I scan the files and then move them to the users’ home directories. Is this possible? Thanks!

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seems I figured this out. I did this:

edited /var/www/ood/apps/sys/dashboard/app/views/files/_favorites.html.erb and removed the lines:

      <li role="presentation" class="nav-item">
        <%= link_to files_path(Dir.home), class: "nav-link d bg-light" do %>
          <%= fa_icon "home", classes: '' %>
          Home Directory
        <% end %>
      </li>

edited /var/www/ood/apps/sys/dashboard/app/apps/ood_app.rb and commented out these lines as below:

  def links
    if role == "files"
      # assumes Home Directory is primary...
      [
#        OodAppLink.new(
#          title: "Home Directory",
#          description: manifest.description,
#          url: OodAppkit::Urls::Files.new(base_url: url).url(path: Dir.home),
#          icon_uri: "fas://home",
#          caption: caption,
#          new_tab: open_in_new_window?,
#          tile: tile
#        )
      ].concat(
        OodFilesApp.new.favorite_paths.map do |favorite_path|
          OodAppLink.new(

obviously set allow path as per config option and then added secondary path to initiator.

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Glad to see you sorted it.

Instead of editing the files in /var/www/ood (which will be overwritten when you reinstall/update) you can provide the same overrides in /etc

Here’s the docs on overriding HTML pages.
https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/customizations.html#overriding-pages

Here’s an example of a monkey patch where we used to overwrite the functionality of the UsrRouter class. You can do the same thing with the OodApp class, i.e., redefine behavior in an initializer.

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Thanks for the tip; I’ll see if I can get that going. Loving this software by the way, and your great help every time I post! Cheers

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Hmm having some trouble. I created /etc/ood/config/apps/dashboard/views/files/_favorites.html.erb with these contents:

  <div id="clipboard" class="sticky-top">
  </div>

  <nav>
    <ul id="favorites" class="nav nav-pills flex-column">
      <% OodFilesApp.new.favorite_paths.each do |p| %>
        <li class="nav-item">
          <%= link_to files_path(p.filesystem, p.path.to_s), class: "nav-link d bg-light" do %>
          <%= fa_icon p.icon, classes: '' %>
          <%= p.title || p.path.to_s  %>
          <% end %>
        </li>
      <% end %>
    </ul>
  </nav>

And I uncommented what I had edited before (in /var/www/ood/apps/sys/dashboard/app/apps/ood_app.rb). However that made the Home Directory link come back. Do I need to do both?

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The Ruby .rb controls the navigation menu entries. The HTML file you’ve given is for the list on the left hand panel when you view the files page.

i.e., this:

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Ah ok so that is also good for sure. To override this other file I edited, would I need to

mkdir /etc/ood/config/apps/dashboard/apps/
vim /etc/ood/config/apps/dashboard/apps/ood_app.rb

And put in the same file I was editing, but with the Home Dir commented out as I had done before? So essentially the same thing, but overriding it correctly this time?

Edit: no, still there after I do this.

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Initializers (like the rb file you’re trying to make) go into initializers directory (the same directory of the site specific file that creates the list of favorites to begin with).

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It worked!! Thank you so much - really appreciate it.