merlinb/mpicms

Intranet CMS system for the MPIMG Berlin

Requirements

• Python >= 3.7
• pip
• Postgresql >= 11
• OpenLDAP

Deployment

• Apache2
• mod_wsgi

Setup

Set up Python environment

pip install -r requirements/production.txt

Set local settings

Put custom settings in config/settings/local_settings.py

For Django related variables see Django's documentation.

• DJANGO_SECRET_KEY
• DATABASE_URL
• DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS (List)

LDAP

See django-auth-ldap docs.

• LDAP_SERVER_URI
• LDAP_USER_DN
• LDAP_USER_PASSWORD

Run database migrations

• python manage.py migrate --no-input. See Django docs.

Update translation fields

• python manage.py update_translation_fields. See wagtail-modeltranslation docs.

Update search index

• python manage.py update_index. See Wagtail docs

Compile translation

• python manage.py compilemessages. See Django docs

Collect static files

• python manage.py collectstatic. See Django docs

Deployment with Apache and mod_wsgi

See Django docs.

mpicms's Issues

Sidebar styling

• Inconsistent spacing
• contacts as cards?

Prevent email, name, pw change

Streamfield

Pro:

• Tables

preview?

Collect department news on homepage

Import ICS

Mark Preview, add Button to switch to live

Booking system for room reservations

• General information about rooms
• Overview of active reservations
• Booking system for reservations

Main news sidebar

Show list of links to category news pages

Room information for Sidebar

Should be streamfield?
With options:

• Contacts
• Room

Forced order?

External links as pages

https://gist.github.com/alej0varas/e7e334643ceab6e65744

Show first words in preview when search_description not set

Link to docs

EventIndex hide in menu per default

Internal events

• Visual calendar application
• What is happening today?

Language switching not working

Works again after changing the url once.

Templates

Universalize search_description

Page titles

Template titles should be translated.

Recurring events

Limit Homepage creation to admins

Probably not possible with permissions, as wagtail tree-oriented permission override everything else. Nonetheless, hooks can be used to include additional permissions into the admin group editor.

Search

Ausschreibungen

Telefonliste

Snippet groups (including super- and subgroups)
Snippet contacts (can include non-persons)

EventIndex required on homepage

News Preview Design

• smaller Items

Images for contacts

News Banner

Wagtail page type names

Change button labeling

• Newseintrag/Veranstaltung erstellen statt Seite/Unterseite erstellen

Button in Admin Dashboard to return to site

Downloads

Administrational forms

• Application for holidays
• Application for internal account (read, agree to legal requirements)

Booking system for CPU resources

Documentation

Markdown Editor Option

https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail-markdown could be used, although it isn't heavily maintained, uses the outdated SimpleMDE package and offering two, competing options reduces database maintainability.

Tables

Menu: current item not marked as such

On Firefox

Image header option for news, events

Also other sites?

Better search results

Chatrooms

Redirect to root page after login

Logging

Table of contents for Wikipage

Prevent password hash save

Image wraparound

Sitemap

Seperate page model for groups?

Contacts

Should be able to include non-persons, like Helpdesk

Logout for unprivileged users

Settings

local settings