Bench Manager

Bench Manager is a graphical user interface to emulate the functionalities of Frappé Bench. Like the command line utility it helps you install apps, manage multiple sites, update apps and much more.

Installation

Create a new site called bench-manager.local and install Bench Manager on the site.

Automated (preferred)

$ bench setup manager

What all it does:

1. Create new site bench-manager.local
2. Gets the bench_manager app from https://github.com/frappe/bench_manager if it doesn't exist already
3. Installs the bench_manager app on the site bench-manager.local

Manual

$ bench new-site bench-manager.local
$ bench get-app bench_manager
$ bench --site bench-manager.local install-app bench_manager

Update

In frappe-bench directory execute:

$ bench update

Wiki

Features

What can you do using this app ?

• Update bench
• Backup your sites
• Install/Uninstall apps on your site
• Restore Backups on either existing sites or new sites
• Create new apps and sites

App Catalogue

There are 5 main doctypes associated with this app.

1. Bench Settings

• This is a single doctype whose main purpose is to peruse your bench instance and load all the necessary config onto the related doctypes such as App, Site and Site Backup.
• The Update button emulates the bench update command and updates all the installed apps.
• The Sync button does the following functions.
  • Reads your bench instance, greps and loads all the backups onto the Site Backup doctype.
  • Reads, greps and populates the Site doctype with all the existing sitse in the current bench instance.
  • Reads, greps and populates all the installed apps in the App doctype.
• The Bench setting doctype also displays all the config parameters in the common-site-config.json which is applicable to all the sites in your bench instance.

2. Site

• The Site doctype shows a list of all the sites in the current bench instance.
• Inside each individual docname of the Site doctype one can find 3 clickable buttons.
  1. Migrate
     • This button emulates the bench migrate command.
     • It applies schema changes and data migrations if any.
     • Migrate should be run after you pull updates from any Frappé app.
  2. Backup Site
     • This button backs up the site with all the files in it.
  3. Install App
     • On clicking this button a ui-dialog pops up where one can select and install any app onto the site.
  4. Uninstall App
     • Lets you uninstall an app from the site.
  5. Reinstall
     • Lets you reinstall a site.
  6. Drop Site
     • Lets you delete a site. The backup for the site is automatically taken.
  7. View Site
     • Lets you directly access the site. At the click of a button, a new-tab is opened in your browser opening the site.
  8. Create Alias
     • Create multiple sites all pointing to the same site, i.e. create multiple aliases for the site.
     • This can also be considered as an alternative to renaming a site.
  9. Delete Alias
     • Delete the aliases created.

3. Site Backup

• This doctype contains a list of all the backups present in your bench instance (includes both existent and archived sites).
• Inside each individual docname one can find a Restore button.
• Clicking the Restore button pops up a ui-dialog.
• In this ui-dialog once chose whether to restore the backup either on an existing site or on a new site.

4. Bench Manager Command

• This doctype is basically a logger for all the commands run using this app.
• This doctype displays the source of the command ie. the doctype and docname from where the command originated.
• It also displays the date and time on which the command was executed.
• The status of the command can be one of 3 types (Success, Failed or Ongoing)
• Finally the console text field displays the log of the command.

5. App

• This doctype shows a list of all installed apps in the current bench instance, and their git information!

License

MIT