Django FamilyTree

An application that creates and displays user's family tree written in Django.

Built With

• Language: Python 3.8
• Framework: Django
• Database: MariaDB
• OS: Ubuntu Server LTS
• IDE: PyCharm (optional)

Overview

This web application creates family trees, where users can mangage and edit information on them.

Main features that are currently implemented are:

• There are models for person, name, partnerships, location (birth & death), and users
• Users can create and manage their family trees
• Users can add people and partnerships which will generate trees
• Profiles will be made for each person created
• Admin users can manage users

Installation

To get this web application working:

1. Set up a Python environment. Recommended to use venv.

2. Assuming you have Python setup, run the following commands (if you're on Windows you may use py or py -3 instead of python to start Python):

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   python3 manage.py makemigrations
   python3 manage.py migrate
   python3 manage.py createsuperuser # Create a superuser
   python3 manage.py runserver

3. Open a tab to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ to open the admin site
4. Open tab to http://127.0.0.1:8000 to see the main site.

This is the default Django address. Django is able to run on any IP address and port.

 python3 manage.py runserver <your IP address>:<desired port>

Setting up Google Authentication

Django-allauth requires uses the database to store authentication information; this is highly convenient with regards to git, since it means that there is no chance of accidentally committing private information. In order to set up your installation with this feature, you will need an Google API application with Client ID and key. See the Google developer console to make a new project.

Briefly, here's what you need in terms of the Google API:

1. A new project
2. An OAuth consent screen, set up with at least an application name and support email.
3. OAuth Credentials for web with the following options:
   1. The root of the site added as an origin URI. For a local install, this will be 127.0.0.1:8000.
   2. [site root]/accounts/google/login/callback added to redirect URIs. For a local install this will be http://127.0.0.1:8000/accounts/google/login/callback/.

The Google Console will need further configuration in a production environment.

In the admin page (/admin):

1. Add a new "Site" (under "Sites"). If you are running the server locally, the domain name will be 127.0.0.1:8000; the display name is usually the same.
2. Add a new "Social Application." Pick "Google", as the provider. Type "Google API" as the name. Type your Client id and your Secret key in the appropriate boxes. Add the site you added in step 1 to the Choses sites.

Fixes for common issues during installation

If the application does not work, please check to see if there is migrations folder inside the webapp folder.
If there isn't, please make a migrations folder inside the webapp folder.
Then, create a file called __init__.py and place it inside the migrations folder.

Authors

• Ben Philips
• Cynthia Ha
• Tri Minh Duong

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details