Boards suddenly disappeared

[rubenrookd (Ruben)]

Summary
Recently started new Docker containers for postgres and mattermost. Suddenly the boards plugin stopped working.

Steps to reproduce
Not sure. It just stopped working Using mattermost-enterprise-edition:7.8

The boards plugin is version 7.8.8

Expected behavior
Boards appears in UI and I am able to access boards.

Observed behavior
Not visible in UI and not accessible via URL.

In plugins manager this is what I see for Boards.

This plugin failed to start. unable to generate webapp bundle: focalboard: unable to copy webapp bundle directory: focalboard: stat plugins/focalboard/webapp/dist: no such file or directory

[john.oliver]

Boards has been deprecated as part of the core platform. You can install the community-supported plugin.

Upcoming product changes to Boards and various plugins

Mattermost is committed to continuously improving our products to serve our customers’ evolving needs. As part of this commitment, we want to inform you about some upcoming product changes that will affect our platform. Effective September 15th, 2023, Mattermost Boards will transition to being fully community supported, with various other plugins following suit (see full list below). Mattermost will continue to actively maintain a select number of plugins, including Jira, Github, Gitlab, MS Tea…

[rubenrookd (Ruben)]

What I ended up doing was unintalling the boards plugin that came with the docker container and going through the integrated marketplace to reinstall it.

It was a real scare because I had a whole bunch of things setup already. I was able to recover that seeing as it was still using the same DB i guess. I haven’t had a problem since.