Configuration helper

[GioBonvi]

I have had this idea some time ago, I have tried fixing some rough edges, but there is still something to work out.

My idea would be to deploy a google script (as a web app) which the iser could use to configure GCEN.

This is a rough draft of the concept:

• a web page with a form field (text, list, check box...) for each setting
• the user fills in the settings, receiving immediate feedback about malformed/invalid input
• the user submits the settings
• a more thorough check is performed on the input
• if everything is alright the user is presented with the code correctly configured which can be copied and deployed as usual

This would mean:

• users would be helped in the configuration of the script (and issues about misconfigurations should happen less often)
• we would need to maintain this second script as well (although it should be easier as users would not access it directly and its logic would be simpler)
• we could split the monolythic code.gs into smaller, more manageable files

[rowanthorpe]

Although I haven't looked at the requirements, I suspect it would then be possible to use the web-app to generate and optionally auto-deploy the GCEN code (or modify it if already-deployed). It could include some handling like "are you sure you want to overwrite the existing deployment" if auto-deploy sounds like an invitation to disaster. Of course that would make the web-app noticeably more complex, but as a pay-off it would mean when people open a support-request-issue due to having problems copy-paste-deploying GCEN manually, the first question as response can be "have you tried it using auto-deploy from the web-app". Whenever this works, we could then say "therefore the problem is in the manual steps you are taking" (meaning, either just stick with auto-deploy or re-read the documentation more thoroughly if you want to manually deploy).

[baatochan]

Yeah, the whole idea seems nice, and auto-deploy would be useful - especially if it could auto-update the script and remember user's settings.

However if it would be just client-side then GitHub pages for this repo could be used to host it