zak-ken/StaffManagerApp

A simple django app that performs CRUD requests with regards to employees.

management

The staff management is a simple Django app to perform crud commands on employees.

steps:

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1. This web-app requires django 2.0 and python 3.5.

3. No DB settings is needed as sqlite3 is used by default.

2. create a virtual env.

   -> python3 -m venv vp or virtualenv -p python3.5 venv

3. Activate vp and run "pip install -e staffmanager_package"

4. Create a project, "django-admin startproject staffmanager"

5. • Add "staffapp.apps.StaffAppConfig" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

     INSTALLED_APPS = [

     'staffapp.apps.StaffAppConfig', ...

     ]

   • Add the following settings in your settings.py

     -> MEDIA_URL = '/media/' -> MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staffapp/media')

6. Include the following into URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

   from django.urls import path, include
   from django.contrib import admin
   from django.conf import settings
   from django.conf.urls.static import static
   from staffmanager import views
   urlpatterns = [
       path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
       path('', views.redirect_employee),
       path('staff_management', views.redirect_employee),
       path('staff_management/', include('staffapp.urls')),
   ]
   
   if settings.DEBUG:
       urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
   

7. create a views.py in your project and add the following:

   from django.shortcuts import redirect, reverse

   def redirect_employee(request):

   """ :param request: :return: Redirects the user to a valid page """ return redirect(reverse('emp:view_employees'))

8. Run python manage.py makemigrattions.

9. Run python manage.py migrate to create the employee models.

10. Run python manage.py insert_test_users to create the forecast models.

11. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000 to view the site.