QWC Admin GUI

GUI for administration of QWC Services.

• manage users, groups and roles
• define QWC resources and assign permissions
• define registrable groups and manage group registration requests

Note: requires a QWC ConfigDB

Configuration

The static config files are stored as JSON files in $CONFIG_PATH with subdirectories for each tenant, e.g. $CONFIG_PATH/default/*.json. The default tenant name is default.

Admin Gui Service config

• JSON schema
• File location: $CONFIG_PATH/<tenant>/adminGuiConfig.json

Example:

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qwc-services/qwc-admin-gui/master/schemas/qwc-admin-gui.json",
  "service": "admin-gui",
  "config": {
    "db_url": "postgresql:///?service=qwc_configdb",
    "config_generator_service_url": "http://qwc-config-service:9090",
    "totp_enabled": false,
    "user_info_fields": [],
    "proxy_url_whitelist": [],
    "proxy_timeout": 60
  }
}

To connect with the demo database, the following ~/.pg_service.conf entry is expected:

[qwc_configdb]
host=localhost
port=5439
dbname=qwc_demo
user=qwc_admin
password=qwc_admin
sslmode=disable

Set the GROUP_REGISTRATION_ENABLED environment variable to False to disable registrable groups and group registration requests, if not using the Registration GUI (default: True).

To automatically logout from the admin gui after a period of inactivity, set the IDLE_TIMEOUT environment variable to the desired period, in seconds (default: 0, i.e. disabled).

Set totp_enabled to true to show the TOTP fields in the user form, if two factor authentication is enabled in the DB-Auth service (default: false).

Additional user fields

Additional user fields are saved in the table qwc_config.user_infos with a a one-to-one relation to qwc_config.users via the user_id foreign key. To add custom user fields, add new columns to your qwc_config.user_infos table and set your user_info_fields to a JSON with the following structure:

[
  {
    "title": "<field title>",
    "name": "<column name>",
    "type": "<field type (text|textarea|integer, default: text)>",
    "required" "<whether field is required (true|false, default: false)>"
  }
]

These fields are then added to the user form.

Example:

-- add custom columns
ALTER TABLE qwc_config.user_infos ADD COLUMN surname character varying NOT NULL;
ALTER TABLE qwc_config.user_infos ADD COLUMN first_name character varying NOT NULL;

# set user info fields config
"user_info_fields": [{"title": "Surname", "name": "surname", "type": "text", "required": true}, {"title": "First name", "name": "first_name", "type": "text", "required": true}]

Mailer

Flask-Mail is used for sending mails like user notifications. These are the available options:

• MAIL_SERVER: default ‘localhost’
• MAIL_PORT: default 25
• MAIL_USE_TLS: default False
• MAIL_USE_SSL: default False
• MAIL_DEBUG: default app.debug
• MAIL_USERNAME: default None
• MAIL_PASSWORD: default None
• MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER: default None
• MAIL_MAX_EMAILS: default None
• MAIL_SUPPRESS_SEND: default app.testing
• MAIL_ASCII_ATTACHMENTS: default False

In addition the standard Flask TESTING configuration option is used by Flask-Mail in unit tests.

Proxy to internal services

The route /proxy?url=http://example.com/path?a=1 serves as a proxy for calling whitelisted internal services. This can be used e.g. to call other internal services from custom pages in the Admin GUI, without having to expose those services externally.

Set proxy_url_whitelist to a list of RegExes for whitelisted URLs (default: []), e.g.

    ["<RegEx pattern for full URL from proxy request>", "^http://example.com/path\\?.*$"]

Set proxy_timeout to the timeout in seconds for proxy requests (default: 60s).

Translations

Translation strings are stored in a JSON file for each locale in translations/<locale>.json (e.g. en.json). Add any new languages as new JSON files.

Set the DEFAULT_LOCALE environment variable to choose the locale for the user notification mails (default: en).

Solr search index update

If using a Solr search service, the Solr search index of a tenant may be updated via a button on the main page. This can be activated by adding the following configuration options to the Admin GUI service config:

{
  "config": {
    "solr_service_url": "http://qwc-solr:8983/solr/gdi/",
    "solr_tenant_dih": "dih_geodata",
    "solr_tenant_dih_config_file": "/solr/config-in/dih_geodata_config.xml",
    "solr_config_path": "/solr/config-out",
    "solr_update_check_wait": 5,
    "solr_update_check_max_retries": 10
  }
}

• solr_service_url: Solr Service base URL for collection
• solr_tenant_dih: Solr DataImportHandler for the tenant
• solr_tenant_dih_config_file (optional): Path to source DataImportHandler config file for the tenant
• solr_config_path (optional): Path to Solr configs (Note: requires write permissions for DataImportHandler config files)
• solr_update_check_wait (optional): Wait time in seconds for checks during Solr index update (default: 5s)
• solr_update_check_max_retries (optional): Max number of retries for checks during Solr index update (default: 10)

If both solr_tenant_dih_config_file and solr_config_path are set, the tenant config file is first copied to the Solr configs dir before updating the Solr search index.

Example volumes for qwc-docker environment and above service config:

services:
  qwc-admin-gui:
    # ...
    volumes:
      # ...
      # Solr configs
      - ./volumes/solr/configsets/gdi/conf:/solr/config-in:ro
      - ./volumes/solr/data/gdi/conf:/solr/config-out

Plugins

The admin gui is extendable through plugins, which reside in the plugins folder. To enable them, list them in plugins in the admin gui configuration. See the JSON schema for details, and for configuration parameters which may be required by plugins shipped by default with qwc-admin-gui.

Usage

Base URL:

http://localhost:5031/

Default login

username: admin password: admin

Docker usage

To run this docker image you will need a configuration database. For testing purposes you can use the demo DB.

The following steps explain how to download the demo DB docker image and how to run the qwc-admin-gui service with docker-compose.

Step 1: Clone qwc-docker

git clone https://github.com/qwc-services/qwc-docker
cd qwc-docker

Step 2: Create docker-compose.yml file

cp docker-compose-example.yml docker-compose.yml

Step 3: Set flask debug mode to true

For the QWC Admin GUI to work without login you will have to add the following env variable:

FLASK_DEBUG=1

Step 4: Start docker containers

docker-compose up qwc-admin-gui

For more information please visit: https://github.com/qwc-services/qwc-docker

Development

Create a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv .venv

Activate virtual environment:

source .venv/bin/activate

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set the CONFIG_PATH environment variable to the path containing the service config and permission files when starting this service (default: config).

export CONFIG_PATH=../qwc-docker/volumes/config

Configure environment:

echo FLASK_ENV=development >.flaskenv

Update translation files: python ./updateTranslations.py

Start local service:

 python src/server.py