Hey there Mark,
Thanks for taking another look at this with me 
I’m running 2.18 using the Sierra Leone test database
I loaded up your app and of course because I don’t have the ROOT.war sitting in a dhis folder it didn’t work right off the bat, but I was intrigued how you formed your relative paths, I was able to update mine to match, so no more annoying triple …/ everywhere.
That being said, I went ahead and I tried using your menu-app with no updates and renaming my ROOT.war to dhis. DHIS2 navigates to the correct location when I click on it http://192.168.1.114:8080/dhis/api/apps/menu-app/myInstance/myApp/index.html but still has the same error:
It is interesting that it now looking in the ‘api/apps/menu-app/myInstance/’ which follows the folder structure of your ‘menu-app’ but quits at myInstance (not continuing onto myApp)
You said you are seeing the menu/branding when you loaded it onto your test machine?
I’m not sure what to do here, maybe this particular call in dhis2.menu.ui.js isn’t honoring the baseUrl
LINE 950
dhis2.menu.ui.initMenu = function () {
try {
jQuery.ajax({
type : "GET",
url : "../dhis-web-commons/menu/getHelpPageLinkModule.action",
dataType : "json",
success : function(json) {
helpPageLink = json;
bootstrapMenu();
}
});
} catch (e) {
if (console && console.error)
console.error(e.message, e.stack);
}
};
My version of 2.18 is about a month old, so I don’t know if maybe any changes made to this particular file in the interim.
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Mark Polak markpo@ifi.uio.no wrote:
Hey Timothy,
You are correct about the relative paths. Unfortunately there is currently no way to insert the script tags and link tags in their normal way and have the server find the correct path. The reason is indeed because of the baseURL setting. Someone could server their apps from a different folder or even different server.
Therefore if you’re planning to release it to servers that might use a different url scheme you’ll need to do something clever and load those files dynamically. You’d have to pull in your manifest.webapp which contains the root url of your instance (as dhis modifies and adds that to the manifest when you install the app). Anyhow thats for later worry, back to your problem at hand.
Could it be possible you’re running an older version of DHIS? If so could you tell me which revision? (It’s possible you’re running a version where that help url was not “baseURLified”
If i install the attached minimalistic app on my machine it works (running trunk). (Obviously this one is configured for mine and you’ll have to change some urls.) My dhis runs at localhost:8080/dhis/
Kind regards,
Mark Polak
mark@thedutchies.com
markpo@ifi.uio.no
+47 970 36 752
On 21 Apr 2015, at 18:34, Timothy Harding hardingt@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Mark,
I saw that line, and I’ve played around with it, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Let me describe my process:
Here is my setup information:
<Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.02.32 AM.png>
The App base URL confuses me, because it seems it should be hardcoded. Every time I would install any app it would only be accessible from the above URL (/api/apps).
I created the index.html page with just the barebones default values from the web tutorial:
<Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.13.20 AM.png>
(I went ahead and removed the dhis from the baseURL)
I then upload my test app:<Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.11.49 AM.png>
When I go to it, none of the relative paths are working correctly. So I update the index.html to reflect the css files actual location:
<Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.20.09 AM.png>
But I left the javascript section alone. If I reload the app, I now get the following errors from the js files:
<Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.19.29 AM.png>
Those are the four js files. I then go ahead and fix their relative paths too, as they are looking for this from my api/apps folder when they should be in the dhis root.
<Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.23.09 AM.png>
And now I am back to this error:
<Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.24.43 AM.png>
It doesn’t seem to do anything if I change the baseURL to any number of things:
<Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.27.01 AM.png><Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.29.21 AM.png><Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.28.38 AM.png><Screen Shot 2015-04-21 at 9.27.48 AM.png>
The error will always be the same, 404, and the location it is looking for the file will never differ: api/apps/dhis-web-commons/menu/ It doesn’t seem as if the dhis2.settings.baseUrl is having any affect.
Timothy Harding
RPCV Vanuatu
Skype: hardingt@gmail.com
+1 (541) 632-6623
Timothy Harding
RPCV Vanuatu
Skype: hardingt@gmail.com
+1 (541) 632-6623
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Mark Polak markpo@ifi.uio.no wrote:
Hey Timothy,
Have you added the baseUrl config above where you include dhis2.menu.js and dhis2.menu.ui.js?
This should set a base url for where the menu script will look to find your files. (By default this is set to … which is likely the reason it looks in the wrong place)
You will have to change “dhis” in the example below to your “root” path. In your i assume that would be “/“ since you’re serving from the localhost root and not a “dhis” subfolder.
<script> window.dhis2 = window.dhis2 || {}; dhis2.settings = dhis2.settings || {}; dhis2.settings.baseUrl = 'dhis’; //Change this where you want it to look. I guess in your case '/' should work. </script>
Kind regards,
Mark Polak
mark@thedutchies.com
markpo@ifi.uio.no
+47 970 36 752
On 21 Apr 2015, at 05:40, Timothy Harding hardingt@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I’m just getting started out with the app development and I started with the tutorial found here: https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/developer/html/ch02s07.html
I had to modify the scripts locations because instead of looking here:
localhost:8080/
It goes searching here:
localhost:8080/api/apps
That worked fine (I had to strangely add three …/ to get it to go to the right place) e.g.
vs
So the troubles comes in when it loads the file: ./dhis-web-commons/javascripts/dhis2/dhis2.menu.ui.js
LINE 954 url : “…/dhis-web-commons/menu/getHelpPageLinkModule.action”,
It is set to a relative path, but assumes I am in a different working directory. Because of that, I get a blank page, no menu, and one of these in the console log:
<Screen Shot 2015-04-20 at 8.39.42 PM.png>
Is there a good/sanctioned method to change the js working directory, should I rather just be including a copy of all these JS files in my app, or some other process?
Timothy Harding
RPCV Vanuatu
Skype: hardingt@gmail.com
+1 (541) 632-6623
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