by akatik » Wed Jan 08, 2020 9:26 pm
greavette wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:11 pm
I'd like to better understand best practice when it comes to setting up my wtware environment. I use Raspberry Pi (4's) where my plan is to have the configuration file for wtware installed onto each SD card. But then I want each Pi thin client to be able to receive new configuration entries when necessary go forward. Please review the following points and questions to make sure I'm planning this out properly.
First:
I plan to use a generic sd configuration file for basic config entries. This would be for entries such as:
Timezone
vnc settings
infobox
onerror
Second:
I then will create templates for each thin client for settings that are unique to those thin clients. Such as:
user id
server to connect too
clienthostname
In this the correct way to use/setup wtware configuration files?
I beleive that's the manual that will help you to understand wtware files structure:
http://wtware.com/docs5/includes.html
If you're planning to store config on SD card, then you are to create different config.wtc for each terminal and place all these lines (from first section and from second section) into this file. For each SD.
If I were you I would tell terminal to download configs by network. Then using configurator I would place entries from your first list into all.wtc file, common config file. And into individual configs for each terminal I would place entries from second section.
greavette wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:11 pm
Some more questions for you now:
Reading your documentation I see I can add a menu to each Pi thin client. I do this using the wtware configurator 'Text' tab. How does this work exactly then? It seems I can use templates for my configuration settings and I can also use text (like in this Text tab). Is the text added to the Text tab not shown in any template then? It's outside of all templates?
Text tab is just another way to edit configuration options. If you edit options in Text tab, these options are changed in another tabs also as you may see. But templates you may edit only by doubleclick-ing on template in the list of templates. Text tab is editing only individual terminal config file. You are editing this terminal options, menus, video settings. The same you are editing them in graphical way in other tabs.
[quote=greavette post_id=82417 time=1578427888 user_id=17084]
I'd like to better understand best practice when it comes to setting up my wtware environment. I use Raspberry Pi (4's) where my plan is to have the configuration file for wtware installed onto each SD card. But then I want each Pi thin client to be able to receive new configuration entries when necessary go forward. Please review the following points and questions to make sure I'm planning this out properly.
First:
I plan to use a generic sd configuration file for basic config entries. This would be for entries such as:
Timezone
vnc settings
infobox
onerror
Second:
I then will create templates for each thin client for settings that are unique to those thin clients. Such as:
user id
server to connect too
clienthostname
In this the correct way to use/setup wtware configuration files?
[/quote]
I beleive that's the manual that will help you to understand wtware files structure: http://wtware.com/docs5/includes.html
If you're planning to store config on SD card, then you are to create different config.wtc for each terminal and place all these lines (from first section and from second section) into this file. For each SD.
If I were you I would tell terminal to download configs by network. Then using configurator I would place entries from your first list into all.wtc file, common config file. And into individual configs for each terminal I would place entries from second section.
[quote=greavette post_id=82417 time=1578427888 user_id=17084]
Some more questions for you now:
Reading your documentation I see I can add a menu to each Pi thin client. I do this using the wtware configurator 'Text' tab. How does this work exactly then? It seems I can use templates for my configuration settings and I can also use text (like in this Text tab). Is the text added to the Text tab not shown in any template then? It's outside of all templates?
[/quote]
Text tab is just another way to edit configuration options. If you edit options in Text tab, these options are changed in another tabs also as you may see. But templates you may edit only by doubleclick-ing on template in the list of templates. Text tab is editing only individual terminal config file. You are editing this terminal options, menus, video settings. The same you are editing them in graphical way in other tabs.