I would appreciate if the Admin Interface had a possibility to export and import the election in .json format.
This would be helpful
a) to save an election and redo the same election a year later
b) external version control system (VCS) could be used when creating the election
b1) when corrections are done
b2) (more sophisticated) collaboration among different users when creating the election: With the text format we could use version control system (VCS) and merge various contributions. Of course, the .json with its sensitivity to trailing commas will cause some trouble. Maybe there is a better format.
c) workaround for changing the order of questions
Already existing Workaround: There exists an experimental admin interface where .json can be exported and imported by copy-paste from an editor field:
https://vote.belenios.org/static/admin.html
You must be logged in from the standard login before the experimental admin interface is working, e.g. from here:
https://vote.belenios.org/login?cont=admin&service=public
The text editor does not show any whitespace, however Notepad++ with JSON Viewer plugin or PyCharm editor does beautify it.
I would appreciate if the Admin Interface had a possibility to export and import the election in .json format. This would be helpful a) to save an election and redo the same election a year later b) external version control system (VCS) could be used when creating the election b1) when corrections are done b2) (more sophisticated) collaboration among different users when creating the election: With the text format we could use version control system (VCS) and merge various contributions. Of course, the .json with its sensitivity to trailing commas will cause some trouble. Maybe there is a better format. c) workaround for changing the order of questions
Already existing Workaround: There exists an experimental admin interface where .json can be exported and imported by copy-paste from an editor field: https://vote.belenios.org/static/admin.html You must be logged in from the standard login before the experimental admin interface is working, e.g. from here: https://vote.belenios.org/login?cont=admin&service=public The text editor does not show any whitespace, however Notepad++ with JSON Viewer plugin or PyCharm editor does beautify it.