foerderbarometer

purpose: gather data from intern(WMDE) and extern(volunteers) forms to create a database ('förderdatenbank') and send emails with links for a questionary.

installation and development setup

ln -sr foerderbarometer/settings_development.py foerderbarometer/settings.py

build the database with

python3 manage.py migrate

create superuser account with

python3 manage.py createsuperuser

run the development server with

python3 manage.py runserver

access via

http://localhost:8000/
http://localhost:8000/intern/    (login required)
http://localhost:8000/admin/     (login reqiured)

additional admin functionality

The admin page is the standard admin page delivered by django but with two additional functionalities:

• There is a new action "export to csv" with which you can export all Selected entries to a csv file

• There is a new button in the bottom of every Project to "save as new"

versions used in development

python 3.8.2
django 3.1.1
django-formtools 2.2
whitenoise 5.2.0
gunicorn 20.0.4

testing

run some tests with

python3 manage.py test

production setup

ln -sr foerderbarometer/settings_production.py foerderbarometer/settings.py

edit /secrets.json to contain something similar to

{
  "DATABASE_PASSWORD": "THIS IS TOP SECRET!",
  "SECRET_KEY": "THIS IS ANOTHER SECRET!"
}

edit foerderbarometer/settings_production.py according to your database setup (tested with MariaDB 10.0.36)

run the following commands:

python3 manage.py makemigrations
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py collectstatic

add to cron at least one time a day:

python3 manage.py sendmails

server starts with

nohup gunicorn --forwarded-allow-ips="*" -b '0:8000' foerderbarometer.wsgi 2&> logfile &

Should be executed at least daily e.g. in crontab

python3 manage.py sendmails