Configuring environment variables ?

[robi]

@girish a good thing to add to the baserow docs for Cloudron.

[hakunamatata]

@robi Agreed as the docs on Cloudron are currently empty.

[hakunamatata]

@girish @nebulon have you had some time to look into this? or is it a question better suited over at the baserow community?

[nebulon]

Currently the app package does not support setting those config options via environment variables. We would need to add a .env file of sorts which is sourced by the app on startup. I will check if and how this can be added for the next app package release.

[girish]

This is implemented in the new package along with baserow 1.11.0. See https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/baserow/#custom-configuration

[hakunamatata]

@girish @nebulon awesome, thank you!

[Sam_uk]

@girish Are Plugins currently possible? https://baserow.io/docs/plugins%2Finstallation

[girish]

@Sam_uk Currently, no. Do you know of any useful plugin to test? https://community.baserow.io/c/plugins/17 doesn't have much.

[robi]

@girish ,
@Sam_uk Currently, no. Do you know of any useful plugin to test? https://community.baserow.io/c/plugins/17 doesn't have much.

From there, https://community.baserow.io/t/modify-web-frontend-plugin-baserow-dependency/1046/3 has a nice explanation of the baserow plugin structure.

[Sam_uk]

@girish It's the Calendar one I want to try please: https://baserow.io/docs/plugins/view-type

[girish]

@Sam_uk ah ok, are you thinking of developing plugins ? Is it enough to just symlink the plugin directory?

[Sam_uk]

@girish maybe. in short term users have requested being able to use a calendar view. I think a symlink should work for that?

[girish]

@Sam_uk Apparently, you can just set an env variable named BASEROW_PLUGIN_DIR per this. So, something like export BASEROW_PLUGIN_DIR=/app/data/plugins and then create directory and put a plugin inside it.

That said, none of the plugins seem to be in active development afaict. So, I suspect things probably may not work, not sure.

[robi]

@girish perhaps an update to the package with this as default, good to make it obvious where plugins go, even if empty, visible in FM.

[girish]

@robi yeah, makes sense. But before that, I think we need a way/someone to verify plugins are working. The site also says they are in pre-alpha state, so I don't want to push this anymore than needed.

[robi]

@girish they will get there, until then, they'll have a place to go.