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Orion/How Tos/How To Enable Collaboration

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Revision as of 13:36, 18 January 2017 by Unnamed Poltroon (Talk)

Setup hub server

  • Checkout git repository:
  https://github.com/itsAmr/orion.hub_server.git
  • Go to config.js and change jwt_secret to any secret string.
  • Run it.

Setup Orion (node)

  • Go to orion.conf. Disable single user mode. Then change orion.jwt.secret to the same secret string as you set for the hub server.
  • Make sure mongodb server is running.
  • Go to orionode.client/defaults.pref. Add the following line in the ./plugin section:
  "collab/plugins/collabPlugin.html": true
  • Then go to bundles/org.eclipse.orion.client.ui/web/edit/collaboration. Run
  npm install
  grunt build
  • Run Orion server.

Try collaboration

There are two users A and B.

  • A: Right click on a project and select Share Project. Type the user name of B in the pop-up window.
  • B: Go to Shared Workspace. If A did his work correctly, B should see A's shared project.
  • Edit files in this project together.

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