document Exporter

How to install

1. Install python (version 3 was tested)
2. Install django and all the requirements

cd web_interface
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install libreoffice

sudo apt install libreoffice -y

4. Make the migrations

python3 manage.py makemigrations

5. Migrate

python3 manage.py migrate

6. Start the app

python3 manage.py runserver

Point 4.and 5. are for DB

Few tips

1. Start the app at certain port:

python3 manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8000

2. Start the app and run it in backgroud even after closing ssh session

nohup python3 manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8000 &

3. Close the background task by

kill -9 $pid

4. $pid variable is just the process id you could find it by running:

ps -ef | grep manage.py

How a template looks like

A template is any docx file. For example teamplate.docx that contain:

Hi {{ employee.first_name }}

It will generate a generated_document.docx/pdf

Hi John

If the Employee first name is John in DB

What it is?

It is a web interface to generate docx/pdf for employees starting from a base template and filling automatically data from a database

What database it uses

At the moment in settings is set up to save in SQLite which is just a local