welcome message

[mokkin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Everytime opening a document Collabora welcome message appears.

Describe the solution you'd like
Only once or never show the welcome message.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Make it configurable.

[timar]

Oh wow, if the welcome message appears continually that's a serious
bug. It should show up just once per user / per version. Can you confirm
you get it more than once in each browser ?

Checkout loolwsd.xml - for the setting to disable.

But - we badly want to debug this to help other users.

Can you tell me what browser & OS you are using ?

Can you look at the F12/Javascript console to see if there is some
error there that might be helpful ?

Can you give some information on your web server, version & setup.

Help much appreciated,

Thanks !

[schorsch2]

I can confirm, the note appears every time.
richdocuments 3.5.3
CODE 4.2.4
Nextcloud 19.0.0

[rgl1234]

How can this welcome-message be disable?

[Lurkars]

On selfthosted instance, you can disable welcome screen in loolwsd.xml
<welcome> <enable type="bool" desc="Controls whether the welcome screen should be shown to the users on new install and updates." default="false">false</enable> <enable_button type="bool" desc="Controls whether the welcome screen should have an explanatory button instead of an X button to close the dialog." default="false">false</enable_button> <path desc="Path to 'welcome-$lang.html' files served on first start or when the version changes. When empty, defaults to the Release notes." type="path" relative="true" default="loleaflet/welcome> </welcome>

[nsrafk]

I see the same issue. Running dockerized version so directly editing loolwsd isn’t that good of a deal. Can we pass a extra_params for it maybe?

[thebearon]

I see the same issue. Running dockerized version so directly editing loolwsd isn’t that good of a deal. Can we pass a extra_params for it maybe?

You can copy files from/to the container, thus you can copy /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml out, edit it, copy it back in, and restart the container.
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cp/

However, it'd be great to know more details about why the welcome message keeps showing. It is supposed to store a flag (actually, the version) in the browser's local storage, perhaps that fails for some reason... but why?

[nijel]

I see the same issue. Running dockerized version so directly editing loolwsd isn’t that good of a deal. Can we pass a extra_params for it maybe?

Following does the trick for me:

      extra_params: -o:welcome.enable=false

[juliushaertl]

Closing as this is out of scope of the Nextcloud app.