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SuperLinks 0.4 Released

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This plugin is an extension of my Links plugin with some important new features:
* It supports ANY number of extra tabs
* It will dynamically create the Tab graphics as pages are created
* It has the same user-based access-control as Weathermap
* It allows you to add new links to the Console menu as well as tabs

http://wotsit.thingy.com/haj/cacti/supe ... lugin.html

0.4 adds a nice feature to better format the tabs that are generated by selecting from a couple of fonts (regular vs condensed), then by font size, and then attempting to wordwrap if it becomes necessary. This means you are more likely to get OK-looking tabs.

I also added some warnings for if you are missing the appropriate gd functions, changed to a different font (so I can get a condensed font), and finished the webpage.

This is hopefully the last release for a while :-)
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I think this is a neat plugin.... But, more tabs... ? :o
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rony wrote:I think this is a neat plugin.... But, more tabs... ? :o
I know... It *does* do console menu entries as well, though. The most commonly asked question about the old Links plugin was "how can I have two?", so I figured I'd make it an arbitrary thing.

The more interesting thing for me is that the included pages can be PHP, and have per-user access controls. So you could have a quite nice integration with some external app without having to write anything but the actual integration/display code. Along with the new external auth stuff in 0.8.7, Cacti-as-a-customer-portal is easier with this.
Weathermap 0.98a is out! & QuickTree 1.0. Superlinks is over there now (and built-in to Cacti 1.x).
Some Other Cacti tweaks, including strip-graphs, icons and snmp/netflow stuff.
(Let me know if you have UK DevOps or Network Ops opportunities, too!)
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Love It---But am running out of room!

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Great plugin! So great that I have addded tons of content and am doing lots of SQL database queries and sorting them with tabs. However, my window keeps expanding to the right...Any way that it could go, say, x number of tabs and then create a second (or third) row to keep the screen from 2800x920? Thanks, and great work!
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Re: Love It---But am running out of room!

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imageadmin wrote:Great plugin! So great that I have addded tons of content and am doing lots of SQL database queries and sorting them with tabs. However, my window keeps expanding to the right...Any way that it could go, say, x number of tabs and then create a second (or third) row to keep the screen from 2800x920? Thanks, and great work!
Not really - the Cacti layout kind of requires one row. I was thinking about some way of making some of your tabs (not just SuperLinks ones) collapsible. You'd mark some tabs as "A-list" and then the rest could be collapsed and expanded somehow... didn't really work it out fully.

Bear in mind if you change the style to CONSOLE then you don't create tabs at all - the new options appear in the Console menu, which is OK for stuff that you don't need to give to ordinary users.
Weathermap 0.98a is out! & QuickTree 1.0. Superlinks is over there now (and built-in to Cacti 1.x).
Some Other Cacti tweaks, including strip-graphs, icons and snmp/netflow stuff.
(Let me know if you have UK DevOps or Network Ops opportunities, too!)
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I think this plugin has an error if your database name has a hyphen in it. Check it out.

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TheWitness wrote:I think this plugin has an error if your database name has a hyphen in it. Check it out.
Yep. I think I lifted that setup_tables stuff from an old version of thold, and I see that Jimmy has already fixed the same problem in the latest version. Weathermap will have the same issue, too.

Thanks! :-)
Weathermap 0.98a is out! & QuickTree 1.0. Superlinks is over there now (and built-in to Cacti 1.x).
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NP. I will be in London 1 Liverpool on October 1st & 2nd. Flying into London on Sunday AM.

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Re: Love It---But am running out of room!

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Howie wrote:
imageadmin wrote:Great plugin! So great that I have addded tons of content and am doing lots of SQL database queries and sorting them with tabs. However, my window keeps expanding to the right...Any way that it could go, say, x number of tabs and then create a second (or third) row to keep the screen from 2800x920? Thanks, and great work!
Not really - the Cacti layout kind of requires one row. I was thinking about some way of making some of your tabs (not just SuperLinks ones) collapsible. You'd mark some tabs as "A-list" and then the rest could be collapsed and expanded somehow... didn't really work it out fully.
I just finished the first attempt at a solution for this problem.

http://wotsit.thingy.com/haj/cacti/collapso-0.1.zip is the result

It's a PAIR of plugins. In your plugins[] list, put 'collapso_start' before the block of plugins whose tabs you want to hide, and 'collapso_end' after them, and this plugin will replace all those tabs with one little one. When you click on that one, a second shelf of tabs slides out.

It's reallly cheezy, but without redesigning the cacti UI (which I think will happen in the future), this is a quick fix that isn't too ugly. What do you think?
Weathermap 0.98a is out! & QuickTree 1.0. Superlinks is over there now (and built-in to Cacti 1.x).
Some Other Cacti tweaks, including strip-graphs, icons and snmp/netflow stuff.
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Very inventive :)
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Howie,

Do you have calendar plugin available for public as it's appear on your tabs. Thanks!

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sizulku wrote:Howie,

Do you have calendar plugin available for public as it's appear on your tabs. Thanks!

Zul
No, I have a Calendar *TAB* on my tabs - nothing behind it. It's just a demo tab to show how the superlinks plugin works :-)
Weathermap 0.98a is out! & QuickTree 1.0. Superlinks is over there now (and built-in to Cacti 1.x).
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Howie: Great stuff, tnx!
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Hi Howie,

I'm having problem installing two of your plugin (collapso and superlinks) to cacti 0.8.7. I got big empty space as shown on the attached picture. Is there any fixes for this?

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I don't get that. You did add BOTH collapso_start and collapso_end, right?
Weathermap 0.98a is out! & QuickTree 1.0. Superlinks is over there now (and built-in to Cacti 1.x).
Some Other Cacti tweaks, including strip-graphs, icons and snmp/netflow stuff.
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