Frontend settings

Besides the backend settings, several frontend configuration options are available to customize your Fleio installation.

How to edit constants.js files

There are two constants.js files: one for end-user panel and a second one for staff panel.

Full file path on disk for end-user panel file is:

/var/webapps/fleio/frontend/site/constants.js

Full file path on disk for staff panel file is:

/var/webapps/fleio/frontend/site/staff/constants.js

How to change the top logo

You do not need to pay the white-label fee in order to remove the Fleio logo from the top-left corner of Fleio web application.

To change the top logo for the end-user and/or staff panel, see How to edit constants.js files.

Add the properties logo_light and logo_dark to the CONFIG JavaScript object and set their value to the full HTTP path of an image file.

The light logo will be used on dark backgrounds and the dark logo on bright background.

For example, here’s a how an end-user panel configuration would look like:

var user_config = {
    api_url: 'http://localhost:8000/api',
    language: 'en', // default language
    base_url: '/',
    home_url: '/',
    // externalBilling: {
    //   enabled: true,
    //   addCreditUrl: 'http://...'
    // },
    logo_light: 'https://fleio.com/images/logo.png',
    logo_dark: 'https://fleio.com/images/logo.png',
    shutdown_instance_note: "NOTE: The instance will continue to be charged even if it's shutdown. Delete the instance if you want to no longer be charged.",
    // toast_hide_delay: 3000, // bottom-left toast message animation delay in milliseconds
    items_display_mode: 'cardview', //cardview || listview
    enable_debug: false,  // set to true in development to enable angular debug
    flavors_as_cards: false, // used on instance creation for flavors selector layout
    local_compute_storage_enabled: true, // used on instance create on boot source selection
};

Those options can also be found in the staff panel configurations file.

How to change default language

In order to change the default language you must edit the language field in constants.js file:

var user_config = {
    language: 'en', // default language
};

If you added custom strings for Fleio, by following the guide available at How to customize Fleio strings, you will have to change ‘en’ with your chosen language (in our example it was ‘en_us’).

Also, if you want to change the default language to all your existing clients you will have run an update query directly on the database, or impersonate each user and change the language.

Change the page size

Fleio uses infinite scroll to display objects list. By default, 20 objects are loaded at once and you can change this default value for end-user or staff user constants.js files.

var user_config = {
    // ...
  paginate_by: '20'
    // ...
}

Customize page title

The browser’s page title (that is the HTML <title> tag) default format is:

var user_config = {
    // ...
    base_title: '@ - Fleio'
    // ...
}

Where the @ character is replaced depending on the current page, resulting a title like “Home - Fleio” or “Instanced - Fleio”.

You can redefine the title format in constants.js files.

How to change instance create form display

Instance create form display can be changed using the flavors_as_cards property from the constants.js file.

When set to false, the instance create form will look like this:

When the setting is set to true, the flavors will be displayed as cards. Their description will appear in each card’s body:

Root password related settings

By default the Root password field is displayed and optional in the create instance form. You can make the field mandatory or hide it with these settings in constants.js files:

var user_config = {
    // ...
  show_root_password_field_on_new_instance_form: true,
  root_password_mandatory_on_new_instance_form: false
    // ...
}

Show hide cloud-init user data

You can toggle cloud-init use data field from the create instance form via constants.js files:

var user_config = {
    // ...
  show_userdata_on_new_instance_form: true,
    // ...
}

Changing local compute storage setting

If you set local_compute_storage_enabled property from the constants.js file to false, local compute storage option when selecting boot source on instance creation will not be available anymore.

By default it is set to true in constants.js files:

var user_config = {
    // ...
  local_compute_storage_enabled: true,
    // ...
}

Volume related setting

If you set hide_volume_selection_for_flavors_with_disk property from the constants.js file to true, the volume create options on instance deploy dialog will be hidden if the flavor has more than 0 local disk space.

If you want to set a default volume type you will need to add a dict for default_volume_type_on_new_instance_form property, as it is shown in the following example:

var user_config = {
  // ...
  hide_volume_selection_for_flavors_with_disk: true,
  default_volume_type_on_new_instance_form: {
  'Region one': 'VOLUME_TYPE1',
  'Region two': 'VOLUME_TYPE2',
  },
  // ...
}

How to change default display mode for items

Change the items_display_mode property from the same constants.js files as stated above to either cardview to display the items as cards or listview to display them like a list. Note that the user will still be able to change the display mode for a page using the button from the top-right side of the page content.

How to add custom menu items and categories

You are able to customize your menu by adding top level menu options with links, menu options underneath existing categories or even add new categories with menu options. To do so, you just need to edit your settings.py file (more on that here).

You need to edit some settings (available both for enduser and staff panel). These settings are: CUSTOM_MENU_CATEGORIES_ENDUSER, CUSTOM_MENU_OPTIONS_ENDUSER, CUSTOM_MENU_CATEGORIES_STAFF, CUSTOM_MENU_OPTIONS_STAFF.

To add a category you may follow the following example:

CUSTOM_MENU_CATEGORIES_ENDUSER = {
    'Category one': {
        'main_feature': 'core',
        'location': 2,
    },
    'Category two': {
        'main_feature': 'core',
        'location': 3,
    }
}

You may condition the category by any existing feature name in fleio (more on that here). You can use the core feature if you want your category to be always visible (‘core’ feature is always enabled). Also note the location setting, which allows you to specify where in the menu should the category appear. Note that counting starts from 0. Also, you should be careful not to use the same location for more than 1 custom category because this may raise issues in your application.

To add a menu option underneath a menu category (already existing in fleio or one that you created like described above ), you may use the CUSTOM_MENU_OPTIONS settings for enduser and staff like in the following example:

CUSTOM_MENU_OPTIONS_ENDUSER = [
    {
        'category': 'Category one',
        'label': 'Option one',
        'href': 'https://fleio.com',
        'open_in_new_tab': True,
        'icon': 'warning',
        'feature': 'core',
    },
    {
        'category': 'Billing',
        'label': 'Custom product',
        'href': 'https://fleio.com',
        'open_in_new_tab': True,
        'icon': 'product',
        'feature': 'billing',
        'location': 2,
    },
]

As you may notice, there are several settings that you can use. Use the category attribute to specify under what category the new menu option should be placed, use label attribute to specify what will be the menu option’s name, href attribute for redirecting to a custom link, open_in_new_tab to make users open the link in new tab when clicking it, icon for displaying an icon to the left and feature to condition this menu option by a fleio feature. Again, you can use ‘core’ feature to make sure it will appear forever. Also, you can use the location attribute just like you did for categories.

To add a top level menu option (it will not be under any category) add a new option in the ‘CUSTOM_MENU_OPTIONS_ENDUSER’ setting just like above, but not using the category attribute. So, this may look like this:

CUSTOM_MENU_OPTIONS_ENDUSER = [
    {
        'label': 'Top level',
        'href': 'https://fleio.com',
        'open_in_new_tab': True,
        'icon': 'warning',
        'feature': 'core',
        'location': 6,
    },
]

For top level menu options, make sure their location is not the same with one defined for categories.

How to set custom add credit URL

The Add credit button from the end-user’s dashboard can be customized to any link. You can for instance set an external link, if you are using another system (like WHMCS) to handle invoicing and credit card payments.

More on that on settings.py ADD_CREDIT_URLS setting documentation.

The Billing panel that shows client’s credit and the Add credit button can be hidden completely through an end-user feature toggle.

Changing text editor on tickets plugin, etc.

The rich text editor found on tickets plugin, notification templates edit page, etc. can be customized in the constants.js file. All you need to do is to add a new property called tiny_mce_options and define a dictionary with the settings. The example below is the default one, you can find more settings reading the tinymce documentation.

tiny_mce_options: {
    relative_urls: false,
    inline: false,
    plugins : 'link code image lists autolink',
    toolbar: ["undo redo | styleselect | bold italic underline | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | link code image | bullist numlist | removeformat"],
    skin: 'lightgray',
    theme : 'modern',
    menubar: ''
  },

White label

If you want to remove the small Fleio link that appears at the bottom of the login screen and at the bottom of the left menu, you have to purchase the white-label option.

Changing the top logo is a simple setting and does not require you to pay the white-label fee.

Custom favicon

See How to set a custom favicon.

Adding new custom themes

You can add your own custom themes and change the list of themes that a user can choose from on his profile page. In order to do so, add in constants.js files (staff/end-user) your theme definition in the customThemesCallback function.

This may look something like this:

{
    // ... other settings
    customThemesCallback: function(mdThemingProvider) {
        mdThemingProvider.definePalette('testAccent', {
          '50': '#FF6633',
          '100': '#BBBBBB',
          '200': '#FFFFFF',
          '300': '#FFFFFF',
          '400': '#FFFFFF',
          '500': '#FFFFFF',
          '600': '#FFFFFF',
          '700': '#FFFFFF',
          '800': '#FFFFFF',
          '900': '#FFFFFF',
          'A100': '#FF3919',
          'A200': '#FF3919',
          'A400': '#FF3919',
          'A700': '#FF3919',
          'contrastDefaultColor': 'light'
        });
        mdThemingProvider.definePalette('testPrimary', {
          '50': '#083652',
          '100': '#083652',
          '200': '#083652',
          '300': '#083652',
          '400': '#083652',
          '500': '#083652',
          '600': '#083652',
          '700': '#083652',
          '800': '#083652',
          '900': '#083652',
          'A100': '#083652',
          'A200': '#083652',
          'A400': '#FFFFFF',
          'A700': '#C0CADD',
          'contrastDefaultColor': 'light'
        });
        var testBackground = mdThemingProvider.extendPalette('flLightBackGround' , {
          '600': '#083652'
        });
        mdThemingProvider.definePalette('testBackground', testBackground);
        mdThemingProvider.theme('Test')
          .backgroundPalette('testBackground')
          .primaryPalette('testPrimary')
          .accentPalette('testAccent');
    },
}

The above is actually a replication of the existing “Dusk” theme. You can name it and add whatever colors you want, you may find more info on AngularJS Material documentation. Once you’ve defined your new theme, you can change the default user theme and the list of themes that appear in the profile page by changing the other two settings: default_theme and registeredThemes. Fleio’s default theme is ‘Spring’ and themes registered by default are: ‘Spring’, ‘Navy’, ‘Dusk’.

This is how your new settings may look like:

{
    // ... other settings
    registeredThemes: ['Spring', 'Custom',],
    default_theme: 'Custom',
}

Adding custom headers in requests

You can manipulate headers sent from frontend requests using a settings in constants.js (both staff and end-user). Use the callback interceptorConfig in order to change headers like so:

{
    // ... other settings
    interceptorConfig: function(config, cookies) {
        // e.g. config.headers['header_name'] = 'header-value';
        return config;
    },
}

Remember to always return the config that was passed as a parameter to the function. You may also use cookies which is the angularjs cookies service (just named without the dollar sign).

Add HTML head or body tags

See Frontend customization.

Include custom JavaScript/CSS code

See Frontend customization.