A web portal written in Python3 with Django to store, retrieve and display the details of academic publications of the members of an institute.
These are described in the file DBMS_requirements.pdf
publications_portal
├── accounts
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── apps.py
│ ├── forms.py
│ ├── managers.py
│ ├── migrations
│ │ ├── 0001_initial.py
│ │ ├── 0002_auto_20161016_1628.py
│ │ ├── 0003_auto_20161016_2039.py
│ │ ├── 0004_auto_20161017_0204.py
│ │ ├── 0005_auto_20161019_0903.py
│ │ ├── 0006_auto_20161019_0906.py
│ │ └── __init__.py
│ ├── models.py
│ ├── templates
│ │ └── accounts
│ │ ├── dashboard.html
│ │ ├── email.html
│ │ ├── email_subject.txt
│ │ ├── login.html
│ │ ├── password_reset.html
│ │ ├── password_reset_complete.html
│ │ ├── password_reset_confirm.html
│ │ ├── password_reset_done.html
│ │ ├── signup.html
│ │ └── signup_successful.html
│ ├── urls.py
│ └── views.py
├── creator
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── apps.py
│ ├── forms.py
│ ├── migrations
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── templates
│ │ └── creator
│ │ ├── action_successful.html
│ │ ├── add_field.html
│ │ ├── add_form.html
│ │ └── add_publication.html
│ ├── urls.py
│ └── views.py
├── DBMS_requirements.pdf
├── db_dump.sql
├── ERD.pdf
├── manage.py
├── portal
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── apps.py
│ ├── forms.py
│ ├── migrations
│ ├── static
│ │ └── portal
│ │ ├── css
│ │ │ └── style.css
│ │ ├── images
│ │ │ ├── google.png
│ │ │ └── logo.png
│ │ └── js
│ ├── templates
│ │ └── portal
│ │ ├── 404.html
│ │ ├── author.html
│ │ ├── base.html
│ │ ├── department.html
│ │ ├── field.html
│ │ ├── index.html
│ │ ├── institute.html
│ │ ├── publication.html
│ │ ├── publication_list.html
│ │ ├── publisher.html
│ │ └── search.html
│ ├── templatetags
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ └── widget_type.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ └── views.py
├── pub_portal_schema_create.sql
├── publications_portal
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ └── wsgi.py
└── Schema.pdf
The host computer must have Django 1.10 and python3 to run the portal. To simply run the portal for demonstration purposes, execute
python3 manage.py runserver
In the publications_portal directory. This portal uses MySQL as it's database. The SQL script to setup the databse is given in pub_portal_schema_create.sql and the DB Dump is given in db_dump.sql.
To create the schema, run mysql -uroot < pub_portal_schema_create.sql.
To create DB from dump, run mysql -uroot < db_dump.sql.
The portal can be used with a production server such as Apache or Nginx.
The portal has been modularised into the following Django apps:
accounts: For managing user accounts/profile creation and login featurescreator: For creating/adding new objects like Author, Publisher, Department, Institute, Publication, etc.portal: The main app, this is used to provide a view to all the auditing and browsing capabilities of the portal.
The UI/UX of the portal is consistent and highly usable, with clean and clear visual cues and straightforward ways of performing tasks with complete and informative error messages which tell the user exactly what went wrong.
The important links in the portal are given below:
/: Index/login/: Login/signup/: Signup/dashboard/: User dashboard/add/*/: Add an entity (Institute, Publication, etc.) to the portal/*/id: Display the detail of the entity (Institute, Publication, etc.) with the givenid.