OpenBudgets Microsite

This is an European Union project focused on giving EU municipalities a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that will allow their citizens to visualize, interact and discuss about Budget and Spending of their towns, cities and countries.

For Administrators

Create users for municipalities

• To create a new user for a municipality, follow these steps:
  • Go to the administration site (http://<your-url>/admin)
  • Log in with admin credentials
  • Create User:
    • Click "Add" in the User section.
    • Add a name and password for the user.
    • Assign the user to a municipality:
      • Choose or create new municipality. This determines the content this user has access to by filtering in the admin site according to his/her municipality.
    • Save changes
  • Assign permissions to the user:
    • In the users lists, click on the user you just created
    • Under the "Permissions" section, tick the "Staff status" box. This will allow the user to access the administration site.
    • Under the "User permissions" subsection, add the following permissions from the left box to the right box:
      • Add/change/delete Dataset
      • Add/change/delete Microsite
      • Add/change/delete Theme
    • Save changes.

For Municipalities

Workflow from zero to deploy

• First, create a Microsite and take note of the Microsite ID that is generated for it. Enabling a Forum Platform here will enable discussion and participation between citizens in your Microsite.
• Add as many Datasets as you want and link them to your Microsite.
• Set a layout for the microsite, which indicates how the datasets are going to be drawn on screen and where should the discussion forum appear
• (optional) Add as many themes as you'd like and link them to your Microsite.
• (optional) Go to your Microsite detail page and select the theme you like the most.
• Go to http://HOST_URL/vizmanager/{Microsite ID} to see your Microsite being rendered

Important

• The code field of a Dataset in the administration site has to be set to the code you get from OpenSpending when you upload the dataset there.
  E.g., if you can see your dataset here:

  http://next.openspending.org/viewer/23cdc48554ae8648deff7837c025d8c0:kpai2016
  

  Then your Dataset's code is:

  23cdc48554ae8648deff7837c025d8c0:kpai2016
  

  With the dataset-selection widget it should be as easy as inserting part of the dataset name in the field and selecting it from the suggestions that will appear as the system recognises your dataset.

For Developers / DevOps

This project uses Python3, Django and AngularJS 1.x.
Familiarity with those is advised.

Run locally

$ sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 manage.py migrate
$ python3 manage.py runserver

Run on Docker Compose

Configure environment variables inside docker-compose.yml and then run:

$ docker-compose up

The backend administration server should be reachable at http://localhost:8000/admin and the frontend for each microsite should be at http://localhost:8000/vizmanager/{Microsite ID}

Important

• If you're using a remote version of OS-Viewer, your themes won't be available on microsites; the idea for that functionality to work is to use a local installation or a docker container of OS-Viewer. That way, you can share volumes to get the os_viewer_themes folder shared between OS-Viewre and this project.
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