OliveTin documentation

Customize the web UI

The OliveTin web UI is reasonably customizable - parts of the page that you don’t need can be hidden when they’re not needed.

Page Title

You can customize the page title;

config.yaml

pageTitle: My OliveTin Instance

Show Navigation

You can choose to hide the navigation elements in OliveTin, to present a simplified user interface.

Figure 6. The default user interface with the "Actions" and "Settings" buttons shown.

To have OliveTin hide these buttons, add showNavigation: false to your config.yaml;

config.yaml

logLevel: "INFO"
showNavigation: false

actions:
    ....

Figure 7. The same user interface, but with the "Actions" and "Settings" buttons hidden (showNavigation: false)

Section Navigation Style

sectionNavigationStyle - You can choose to have the section navigation buttons displayed as a Sidebar (sidebar - default), or along the top (topbar).

Custom JavaScript

This is considered an advanced feature, and is not recommended unless you like writing your own code.

You can add custom JavaScript to OliveTin, which will be executed on every page load. This can be useful for adding custom functionality to the web UI.

The custom javascript should be in a file called custom.js and saved in custom-webui/, which should be in the same directory as your config.yaml.

You will need to set enableCustomJs to true in your config.yaml to enable this feature.

Custom Themes / Stylesheet rules

See Themes (for users).

Show new versions

You can disable the "new version" information in the footer - the default for showNewVersions is true;

config.yaml

logLevel: "INFO"
showNewVersions: false

If disabled, OliveTin will still check for new versions in the background, but will not display them on the page. If you want to disable update checking completely, see disable update checking.

You can disable the entire footer, if you would like a really minimal interface. The default for showFooter is true.

config.yaml

logLevel: "INFO"
showFooter: false

This means the showNewVersions configuration option will automatically be false as well.