op-mattermost

op-mattermost

OpenProject integration for Mattermost. Currently, supports following operations using a slash command -

• Create time entry for a work package
• Create work package for a project
• View time logs

Dependencies

• OpenProject community edition
• Mattermost preview
• docker
• Node js and npm modules

Installing dependencies

• Docker
  • Download and install instructions
• OpenProject
  • Quick install
  • docker run -it -p 8080:80 -e SECRET_KEY_BASE=secret openproject/community:11 or
  • Recommended install
  • sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/openproject/{pgdata, static}
  • docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name openproject -e SECRET_KEY_BASE=secret -v /var/lib/openproject/pgdata:/var/openproject/pgdata -v /var/lib/openproject/static:/var/openproject/assets openproject/community:11
  • docker stop openproject
  • docker start openproject
  • For up to date info on OpenProject installation refer their official docs.
• Mattermost
  • docker run --name mattermost-preview -d --publish 8065:8065 --add-host dockerhost:127.0.0.1 mattermost/mattermost-preview
• Node js
  • Download and install
  • Run npm install to install npm dependencies

Setup

• Fork and git clone the repo using HTTPS
• Install and launch all the dependencies as mentioned above and open the cloned directory in an editor or IDE of your choice
• Run sh configure.sh to create .env using bash command line. Alternatively, create a .env file using a text editor with the following entries:
  • OP_URL=http://<your host or ip address>:8080/api/v3/ #needed for pointing to OpenProject installation
  • INT_URL=http://<your host or ip address>:3000/ #needed for exposing the integration running on port 3000
  • MM_URL=http://<your host or ip address>:8065/api/v4/ #needed for pointing to Mattermost installation
    
  • MATTERMOST_ACCESS_TOKEN=<personal access token> #https://docs.mattermost.com/developer/personal-access-tokens.html
  • MATTERMOST_SLASH_TOKEN=<use the mattermost slash command token for logtime> #needed for slash command validation
  • OP_ACCESS_TOKEN=<openproject access token (a.k.a apikey) obtained from user account page>
• In the project root directory do npm init to generate (or update existing) package.json file
• Then run npm install to download and install the node modules from npm
• Run op-mattermost in the console using npm start (usually launches on port 3000)
• Create a custom Mattermost slash command /op as described here and provide localhost or IP address (with port 3000) as the request URL
• In OpenProject, create a custom field billable hours for all work packages in a project
• Test the integration by trying /op in the message bar.

Demo

recorded using vlc and converted to GIF using ffmpeg

COPYING

Copyright (C) 2020, 2019 Girish M

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.