Interactive Apps (Plugins)

Interactive Apps (Plugins) can be developed and deployed using the same tools that are currently provided for all Open OnDemand applications.

An Interactive App is a Dashboard App plugin that follows a custom file/directory structure and API that can be described by the four stages: User Form, Render Template, Job Submission, and Connection View.

A typical file/directory structure for an Interactive App can look like:

my_app/
├── form.yml
├── manifest.yml
├── submit.yml.erb
├── template
│   ├── before.sh.erb
│   └── script.sh.erb
└── view.html.erb

Each of these files/directories are described below in their respective stage.

Stages of an Interactive App

• User Form
  • Configuration
  • Attributes
    • Predefined Attributes
    • Customizing Attributes
  • Examples
    • User-defined Attributes
    • Hard-coded Attributes
    • Customize User-defined Attributes
• Render Template
  • ERB Objects
    • Session
    • Context
  • Template Files
    • Before Hook
    • Main Script
    • After Hook
    • Cleanup Hook
• Job Submission
  • Configuration
    • Configure Batch Connect
    • Configure Script
  • Examples
    • VNC Server
    • Change Executable for Main Script
    • Specify Job Submission Parameters
    • Dynamically Set Submission Parameters
• Connection View
  • Session Information
  • Reverse Proxy
  • Stylizing
  • Examples
    • POST Password