[GeoNode-users] Geonode and Django Content Management System

[Paolo Pasquali]

Hi David,
We are going to integrate a CMS into GeoNode for one of our projects.
I have some experience with Mezzanine CMS but I was able to share the Db
only with GeoNode.
We are evaluating Wagtail also, but Django CMS seems the most likely
candidate for us. So I would be more than happy to collaborate.
As soon as I made some test with Django CMS I will come back to you.

Best,

Paolo

On gio 23 giu 2016 at 19:17, Ariel Nunez <ingenieroariel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey David,
>
> I don't have any particular feedback but thanks for sharing! Looking
> forward to being able to add a CMS as a contrib app easily in GeoNode.
>
> -a
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:53 AM, David Kennewell <
> david.kennewell at hydrata.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there Geonode users,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> For those not familiar with django-cms <http://django-cms.org> 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.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> http://chennaifloodmanagement.org/en/projects/cag-flood-inundation-mapping/
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> *1. Integrating Geonode with DjangoCMS*
>> Current status:
>> 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.
>>
>> Desired status:
>> 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).
>>
>> *2. Authoring geonode maps within DjangoCMS content editor. *
>> 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:
>> https://github.com/Hydrata/geonode_cms_map
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> David Kennewell
>> Water Resources Engineer
>> Hydrata.com
>> +971 55 409 7378
>> david.kennewell at hydrata.com
>> https://ae.linkedin.com/in/davekennewell
>>
>>
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