maastrichtlawtech / data_legislation

Data Legislation

This repository is a collection of interviews that enable the user to determine the consequences of various EU data legislations. This is created as part of the docassemble application. The interviews are created in YAML format and are uploaded on Docassemble instance as python packages.

Steps for creating new interviews

1. Create a new branch for each interview (like database_directive, privacy, whistleblowing etc.)
2. In the root of repo, these files are necessary - setup.py, setup.cfg, and MANIFEST.in
3. The files can be copied from any other existing branch using git checkout database_directive setup.cfg setup.py MANIFEST.in in the root of the repository in the new branch.
4. Under docassemble directory, create the directory (name of your choice). Similarly, under the new subdirectory, create directories data/questions. You can do so on the command line using mkdir -p docassemble/<directory name of your choice>/data/questions from the root of the repo.
5. Navigate to the docassemble directory using cd docassemble from the root of the repo, and perfom git checkout database_directive Database_directive/__init__.py
6. Move __init__.py by doing mv Database_directive/__init__.py <directory name of your choice>/ from the location of docassemble directory.
7. Remove Database_directive by doing rmdir Database_directive from the docassemble directory.
8. Within docassemble directory, perform git checkout database_directive __init__.py
9. Navigate back to the root of the repo and edit the following parts in the file setup.py and method setup -

• name value with a name of your liking like so docassemble.<your new name>
• long_description value with your description
• package_data parameters where with value docassemble/<your new directory name> and package value with docassemble.<your new name>

11. There are two files required in data/questions. You can place your actual interview file with questions in <your file name>.yml and interview.ymlfile that basically indicates to include relevant files. You can check other branches as example.
12. Save the modified information and do git push

Steps for uploading on Docassemble instance

1. Navigate to Playground
2. Provide a unique package name (it is case sensitive)
3. Under Folder-> Click on Package -> Click on Pull -> Provide Github repo URL -> Select <Your new branch>
4. Install

Alternative

Visit docassemble page for how to upload interviews through PDF or DOCX documents

P.S. Package names are case sensitive