Links to Internal Documentation

[webtroter]

Hi,

I want to add a link to my internal wiki so I can reach it easily from within Inventree.

At first, I looked at using INVENTREE_CUSTOMIZE, but the navbar_message isn't displayed in PUI :(

I was thinking that my link could be added via some other customisation configuration, either in the About or System/Server information page. The About page doesn't quite fit I think because it's about the Inventree software, not the current deployment of it, but it already has a list of link. Both of these should work in both PUI and CUI

Alternatively, maybe we could add a section to the PUI navigation menu to add those "internal" links ?

Or, add the navbar_message to that PUI navigation menu? That could be the fastest and easiest way.

[SergeoLacruz]

This can be done using a plugin. Have a look at the navigation mixin:
https://docs.inventree.org/en/stable/extend/plugins/navigation/

You can build something like that:

[webtroter]

Thanks. Could you provide the code you used for that? That would really help.

[webtroter]

Ok, so I was able to make a simple (not so simple) Navigation Plugin.

But it also doesn't show up in the PUI. What about you, does your custom Navigation menu shows up in the Platform UI ?

[SergeoLacruz]

Unfortunately it does not show up in PUI. Neither the text, nor the icon.

[matmair]

This sounds wrong, we use navbar and login messages on the demo. In the config.yaml use customize.navbar_message or customize.login_message

[webtroter]

I can confirm, I don't have a customize key in my response to /api/

{
  "server": "InvenTree",
  "version": "0.17.14",
  "instance": "InvenTree",
  "apiVersion": 294,
  "worker_running": true,
  "worker_count": 4,
  "worker_pending_tasks": 0,
  "plugins_enabled": true,
  "plugins_install_disabled": false,
  "active_plugins" : [
    // ...
  ],
  "email_configured": false,
  "debug_mode": true,
  "docker_mode": true,
  "default_locale": "en-us",
  "system_health": false,
  "database": "postgresql",
  "platform": "Linux-6.8.12-11-pve-x86_64-with",
  "installer": "DOC",
  "target": null,
  "django_admin": "admin"
}

I can see the key when requesting /api/ from the demo server.

"version": "0.18.0 dev",
"instance": "InvenTree Demo Server",
"apiVersion": 390,
"customize": {
  "logo": "/static/img/inventree.png",
  "splash": "/static/img/inventree_splash.jpg",
  "login_message": "InvenTree demo instance - <a href='https://inventree.org/demo.html'> Click here for login details</a>",
  "navbar_message": "<h6>InvenTree demo mode <a href='https://inventree.org/demo.html'><span class='fas fa-info-circle'></span></a></h6>"
},
// ...

[SchrodingersGat]

Have you restarted the server process? The config file is only read at startup

[webtroter]

If I understand the question correctly, yes. The container was restarted a few times, the host too.

Just to be even clear: I'm using container deployment (using podman). The customization is done via the environment variable I posted earlier

[webtroter]

When I find the time, I guess my next step would be to backup/snapshot my host, and try on the latest container tag (I'm using stable)

[webtroter]

@SchrodingersGat , I can confirm that the issue doesn't exist on the latest image tag.

I guess I'll wait for the next stable or accept the risk and use latest

Thanks for the help