| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 999 | RackTables | default | public | 2013-08-21 17:53 | 2022-08-12 00:01 |
| Reporter | oernii | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | low | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 999: add pictures to objects | ||||
| Description | I'd like to be able to add pictures to objects, which could be displayed as scaled background of the table cells. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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You can already do that via add files, picture will show on the first tab |
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This issue is about TD background. |
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I'm not sure how to do what you are requesting. Please view the appropriate page in RackTables, save the contents as HTML, make your desired modifications to the file, then attach both the HTML and image to this issue. |
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I've attached the files |
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Racktables don't show you the racks from front / backview. So it's not so easy to add this in an useful way. What will happen if you have in the front/mid a server and in the back a small switch? you wont be able to see anything. In my opinion you need to add a different table that shows only front / back of the rack, based on the current one, to add these pictures in a meaningful way. |
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Noting the previous point I think it would still be a very useful feature to have, as would probably only want to have a picture on something that uses the full font/interior/back space. It would definitely persuade anyone still trying to use visio to create their layouts that racktables is all you really need. |
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How about showing the visual on mouse-over of the equipment? There is other software that does show the front/rear of the cabinent with equipment photos, and the equipment photo is linked to the HW type so you only need to upload a single photo for the same hardware ID. It may be useful to have a front view/rear view, and possible the option to replace the existing display with the photo display. |
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I would like to have this functionality too. It is very convenient to have visualized racks, like it is shown in attached file 'rack.html' above. I don't think that it is too hard to implement. Just an image, filled in the box. |
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I would love to see something like this as well. |
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I have developed a plugin to be able to display a graphic rendering of the racks. The attachment contains two directories that you can place inside the "plugins" directory: a directory (graphRacks) for the plugin itself plus a "commodity" directory (rackimg) to produce and store the rack graphics (images are also loaded into the DB, but this directory works as a cache for html). If you want to try the plugin, after putting the code in place, try the following: 1. create a new tag called "Front image" (Configuration -> Tag tree -> Edit tree, put the name in "tag name" field, "assignable" must be "yes" then click the button at the end of the row) 2. load the images for each object in your racks (Files -> Manage -> set the tag "Front image" -> choose and load the file) 3. associate each object with the desired image (for each object, go to the "Files" tab, and link the image; the images used must have the "Front image" tag set or will be ignored) 4. activate the plugin (Plugins -> Edit -> click on "+" to the right of the "Graph Racks" plugin line) 5. run the "graphRacks(0,0)" function from the plugin; you can associate this with a button somewhere but I prefer to run it daily from crontab so that you do not depend on people remembering to update the graphics after each change: put this content in a file (I saved a "crontabGraphicUpdate.php" in "inc" directory): <?php $script_mode = TRUE; include ('init.php'); graphRacks(0, 1); ?> and schedule its execution in crontab, for example: 30 5 * * * /usr/bin/php [racktables_path]/inc/crontabGraphics.php >/tmp/crontabGraphics.log 2>&1 After a correct execution, you can find rack graphics via RT interface here: a. Rackspace -> select a row -> tab "Graphics" for all the racks of the selected row b. Rackspace -> select a rack -> tab "Graphics" (but also in tab "View") for the single rack HTH Alberto |
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Thank you Alberto. I had a brief look at the code, the code style looks good, although a few high-level things could be improved later. If you would like to commit the plugin to racktables-contribs as it is (plus a README perhaps), let me know your github.com username. |
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Hi, I don't have a github account, but please, since I appreciate RackTables, feel free to use my code at yur convenience and improve it as needed |
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https://github.com/RackTables/racktables-contribs/commit/16f421c0455bbacdfd90e99ac1249289c53bcaf3 Thank you! |
