pramishp / Alumni-Tracker

Semester project for software engineering, followed on senior's project

DOECE Alumni Portal

A project for Department Of Electronics and Computer Engineering (DOECE), Pulchowk Campus!!!

A Software Engineering project by:

• Jiwan Prasad Guragain 075bct041
  
• Yaman Subedi 075bct045
  
• Luna Manandhar 075bct047
  
• Bipin Khanal 075bct022
  

... Continued on the project by:

• Anusandhan Pokhrel 073BCT507
  
• Baibhav Bista 073BCT511
  
• Lumanti Dangol 073BCT521
  
• Mohit Kedia 073BCT523
  

Previous Features:

• View Yearbook and change own's details for students (No log in protection...)
• Complete Database, and list views and edit views implemented
• Solid django admin app
• Back end hosting and backup concepts implemented

Added Features:

• Signup and Login feature for students using email/password credentials
• An institute level access system
  • Such users can view and edit student data like in admin, but through a django app that we created.
  • Features in the app:
    • A versatile/robust filter based on categories(single,multiple)
    • Select, view and edit student data

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Languages, Frameworks:

Python, Django, PostGreSQL

Some preconditions to run this Project:

(do following on django admin)

• Create a group Students
• Create a group Institutes
  • Create a user and add it to the institute group
  • Create an entry in the Institutes model
  • Use a user in Institutes group in this entry's user field
• <host>/institute is the address to access institute facilities

Project Details

Main django app- DOECEAlumniStudent
Django app for records - records

Requirements are in requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

Will also have to set up the database. Database settings are in DOECEAlumniStudent/settings.py, towards the end. Make sure to change the credentials to something that is not so laughably guessable and save it as an environment variable or something.

venv and media are not supposed to be in this repo. Once the server was up and we were getting responses, I did not want to mess it up.
Hopefully, you guys know what you are doing and remove these two from the repo.

Development branch - master
Server branch - server

Development:
In settings.py, at the end,

1. comment out the lines between "#PRODUCTION(Manaslu Server) START" and "#PRODUCTION(Manaslu Server) END"
2. uncomment out the lines between "#DEVELOPMENT START" and "#DEVELOPMENT END"

Production:
The opposite of the above

backup_script.sh backups the PostGreSQL database as well as the media files. More details in server_notes/ directory.