Changing Sitemap from Web Config (Paper UI)

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I understand that there is some need to edit the configuration of openhab2 not only by text files but also by some Web UI. This is what the PaperUI tackles in a first approach.

From my experience the major pain of editing the config-files is not the text itselt. It’s merely the need of a separate special IDE that supports editing assistance and copying of files from the developer’s machine to/from the openhab server. That’s quite annoying for beginners.

What about making the config files editable from with the web UI? A simple text widget would not be so difficult to implement. Even the full-blow-feature set of the advanced Xtext editors could be bundled in the openhab web server, see

http://spoenemann.blogspot.de/2015/05/editing-dsls-in-web-browser.html

Since Xtext 2.9 they support web editing. This would be cool :slight_smile:

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Afaik, HABmin already supports this, and it is planned to add it to OH2 soon.
Also, ESH will hopefully soon be upgraded to Xtext 2.9.1, so you can have a try to get an Xtext web editor working with that :slightly_smiling:

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Any timeplan for the habmin availibility?
:slight_smile:

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There was a working build pushed to the git repo 4 days ago. They’re currently doing tests and DB development before a full release. See [here] (https://github.com/cdjackson/HABmin2/issues/107) for his update.