<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <br><br>I have succesfully integrated django-cms and geonode for a project currently available at <a href="http://darwinfoundation.org/geoportal">darwinfoundation.org/geoportal</a> or <a href="http://geoportal.darwinfoundation.org">geoportal.darwinfoundation.org</a> . Hope we can start uploading data and blog posts soon. We have an internal geonode with layers, maps, and posts as part of the workflow.<br><br>There's plenty of space for further development but i needed to stop at some point to cover other tasks. <br><br>Current version of django-cms use django 1.6 and has been installed manually. I have integrated djangocms-blog for multilingual post and a wiki system also.<br><br>I didn't touch the models nor views so we can benefit from geonode project development . I have not developed geonode django-cms plugins but should be easy enough to integrated them on geonode.<br><br>For already published maps i use iframes to embed them on posts. The workflow is quite simple. Users publish maps and editors can use those maps among other resources to publish stories.<br><br>I found no problem related with the auth system so far. Admins can use the group app to give permissions to advance users.<br><br>The code needs cleaning and would benefit from refactoring but you can take a look at <a href="https://github.com/jesusjl/cdfgeonode/tree/2.4.x-geonode-1.0.0">https://github.com/jesusjl/cdfgeonode/tree/2.4.x-geonode-1.0.0</a>. <br><br>It's just a geonode template with customizations. <br><br><br>Some challenges i found on the path...<br><br>Internationalization: I had problems with the way geonode and django-cms manage internationalization. As far as i know django-cms use parler... So with some hacks i was able to use both ways to handle this topic. I had a lot of problems by the way geonode handle layers and maps urls, mostly 404 errors. <br><br>Javascript: i had some javascript error difficult to debug when allowing geonode pages be controlled by django-cms, but i was able to use placeholders at the homepage. Care should be taken anyway.<br><br>Url: I was expecting to use django i18n patterns to handle geonode urls as part of django-cms but it became really cumbersome. So i just import geonode url and include django-cms urls at the end. See internalization for the purpose on it.<br><br>Probably someone with more django experience could surpass all this difficulties. Im sure that integrating django-cms on geonode would leverage the project to a new level and probably it is worth the investment. <br><br>Hope i can help within my means and would love to hear more on this topic.<br><br>Jesus </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-23 1:53 GMT-06:00 David Kennewell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.kennewell@hydrata.com" target="_blank">david.kennewell@hydrata.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi there Geonode users, <div><br></div><div>I wanted to share a few developments we've made with Geonode and DjangoCMS, and learn if there are others in the community headed in this direction. </div><div><br></div><div>For those not familiar with <a href="http://django-cms.org" target="_blank">django-cms</a> it's a tool that allows users to edit and publish content directly to a website through their browser. No coding or web developer required. A typical usecase would be a reporting publishing an article to her newspaper website. </div><div><br></div><div>I've been working with an NGO in Chennai,India to improve the accessibility of their work around flood management, and have found the CMS a really useful tool to merge reports and Geonode spatial data together in a way that readers can engage with. Here's an example:</div><div><a href="http://chennaifloodmanagement.org/en/projects/cag-flood-inundation-mapping/" target="_blank">http://chennaifloodmanagement.org/en/projects/cag-flood-inundation-mapping/</a></div><div><br></div><div>To achieve this outcome, there's basically two steps. I'd be interested in collaborating with anyone who would like to get involved in either of these. </div><div><br></div><div><b>1. Integrating Geonode with DjangoCMS</b><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Current status: </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I've bolted these two together with sticky tape and paper glue to demonstrate what might be possible on the Chennai project :) Currently I'm running two separate servers & databases, with hardcoded links in each project to make it look like it's all talking to each other. Apart from the dev headache, major drawback here is that users need two django accounts, one for editing reports in CMS and another for geonode. Yuk. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Desired status:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Integrate DjangoCMS as an app under geonode. Now that geonode is running on Django 1.8 this is should be possible. If I do go down this path (we still need some decent traction here to justify it) I'd really appreciate some guidance on how to do this in a manner that allows both easy integration for other projects, but acknowledges that this isn't the core use-case for geonode, so should be an optional extra (in my opinion). </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>2. Authoring geonode maps within DjangoCMS content editor. </b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Once you're geonode/CMS webapp is up and running, your users still need to be able to publish geonode maps from the CMS editor. I've written a plugin to enable this. Once again, it's bare-bones, but it works and we find it useful. I've pushed the code to github here: <a href="https://github.com/Hydrata/geonode_cms_map" target="_blank">https://github.com/Hydrata/geonode_cms_map</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I'd be happy to write an install doc for this, but that's probably not useful until I resolve the above integration issues. Until then it's a manual deploy - feel free to reach out if you would like guidance and we can work through together - I'm sure I'd learn something from this too. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">That's it from me for now, I'd love to hear any similar stories or use-cases that might help guide this development in a way that's useful for all. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">thanks</span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br></div><div dir="ltr">David Kennewell<div>Water Resources Engineer</div><div><a href="http://Hydrata.com" target="_blank">Hydrata.com</a><span></span><span></span></div><div><a href="tel:%2B971%2055%20409%207378" value="+971554097378" target="_blank">+971 55 409 7378</a></div><div><a href="mailto:david.kennewell@hydrata.com" target="_blank">david.kennewell@hydrata.com</a></div><div><a href="https://ae.linkedin.com/in/davekennewell" target="_blank">https://ae.linkedin.com/in/davekennewell</a> </div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div></div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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