Open Academic Environment (OAE Project) Etherpad Plugin

This Etherpad plugin creates an integration for the Open Academic Environment (OAE) project. It provides a way to do:

• simple authentication by passing in the sessionID (that was created in Hilary) in the querystring.
• skinning of the editor interface.

Configuration

You will need to set the requireSession and editOnly values to true in etherpad's settings.json file.

It's recommended to also add in a sessionKey. This can be any random value, but should be the same across the cluster.

To get it working, change the dbType to cassandra and enter the following dbSettings:

"dbSettings" : {
    "hosts": ["127.0.0.1:9160"],
    "keyspace": "oae",
    "cfName": "Etherpad",
    "user": "",
    "pass": "",
    "timeout": 3000,
    "replication": 1,
    "strategyClass": "SimpleStrategy"
}

The last step is to add the websocket protocol. It's important to add this as the first element of the array.

"socketTransportProtocols" : ["websocket", "xhr-polling", "jsonp-polling", "htmlfile"]

Installation

You should have the following structure (assuming you have etherpad at /opt/etherpad)

• /opt/etherpad
  • APIKEY.txt
  • src
  • settings.json
  • ...
  • node_modules/
    • ep_oae/
      • index.json
      • ep.json

Copy or symlink the static/css/padd.css file in this plugin to your-etherpad-directory/src/static/custom/pad.css. This file will skin the etherpad chrome. In order to have custom titles for headers, copy or symlink the static/templates/editbarButtons.ejs file in this plugin to your-etherpad-directory/node_modules/ep_headings/templates/editbarButtons.ejs.

In order to use the OAE toolbar, the etherpad settings.json file needs to be updated to reflect the following changes:

"toolbar": {
    "left": [
        ["bold", "italic", "underline", "strikethrough", "orderedlist", "unorderedlist", "indent", "outdent"]
    ],
    "right": [
        ["showusers"]
    ]
}