[GeoNode-users] Geonode and Django Content Management System

Wed Jun 29 00:57:49 PDT 2016

That's some great work Jesús, thanks. It's always reassuring knowing that a
task is possible before you set out! Let me know when you've got a blog
post up - I'd be interested to see how it looks & understand the user
experience a bit more.

It looks like I'm going to go ahead with the integration for my site - I'll
pay attention to the challenges you've highlighted there, and let you know
how I get on with them.

I also note you're using django-cms==3.1.5.It's the latest CMS version
(3.3) that has dropped support for django 1.6 & 1.7. I'll test out both
options and figure out a way forward. My preference will be to use geonode
master & djangocms3.3, to avail future upgrades, but we'll see if it works.
It will be useful having your code to track the differences.

Dave

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Jesús <gesusjl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have succesfully integrated django-cms and geonode for a project
> currently available at darwinfoundation.org/geoportal or
> geoportal.darwinfoundation.org . 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.
>
> There's plenty of space for further development but i needed to stop at
> some point to cover other tasks.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I found no problem related with the auth system so far. Admins can use the
> group app to give permissions to advance users.
>
> The code needs cleaning and would benefit from refactoring but you can
> take a look at
> https://github.com/jesusjl/cdfgeonode/tree/2.4.x-geonode-1.0.0.
>
> It's just a geonode template with customizations.
>
>
> Some challenges i found on the path...
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Hope i can help within my means and would love to hear more on this topic.
>
> Jesus
>
> 2016-06-23 1:53 GMT-06:00 David Kennewell <david.kennewell at hydrata.com>:
>
>> 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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> Jesús
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