Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] Modifying existing dashboards with plugins

2015-07-08 Thread Skyler Berg
>sure there is any other way around this). >-Lin Hua Cheng wrote: - >To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > >From: Lin Hua Cheng > Date: 07/07/2015 10:30AM > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [horizo

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] Modifying existing dashboards with plugins

2015-07-07 Thread Thai Q Tran
Right, this was the suggestion I also recommended in IRC. The only issue here is if/when another plugin attempt to extend from the same panel, then we'd run into conflicts that would require manual resolution (but I'm not sure there is any other way around this).-Lin Hua Cheng wrote: -To:

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] Modifying existing dashboards with plugins

2015-07-07 Thread Lin Hua Cheng
This was discussed two summits ago, I believe the preferred way to modify the tables was to extend the panel classes, do your customization there, and use the plugin mechanism to turn off the original panel and add the newly extended panel. It is not straight-forward, but it will be have less risk

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] Modifying existing dashboards with plugins

2015-07-07 Thread Rob Cresswell (rcresswe)
AFAIK, the customisation is mainly restricted to panels and dashboards and styling, as Matthias said. I¹ll be looking into extending the workflows shortly. If you have any ideas on implementation, feel free to suggest. Rob On 07/07/2015 11:00, "Matthias Runge" wrote: >On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 0

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon] Modifying existing dashboards with plugins

2015-07-07 Thread Matthias Runge
On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 04:23:29PM -0700, Skyler Berg wrote: > I am wondering if there is a way to have plugins modify existing > dashboards currently that I am overlooking. If not, should there be? Very briefly: There is currently no way to extend something else other than a dashboard or a panel.

[openstack-dev] [horizon] Modifying existing dashboards with plugins

2015-07-06 Thread Skyler Berg
I am considering making a plugin for Horizon which will add additional information to existing dashboards. For example, the plugin may add a new column to a table in a table in the instances dashboard. I have not found a standard method for plugins to do this. The plugin support I have found only a