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"]
    ]
}

oaeproject/ep_oae

Open Academic Environment (OAE Project) Etherpad Plugin

Configuration

Installation