[okfn-labs] Creating a PyBossa app

[Daniel Lombraña González]

Hi Tom,

You are right, the documentation in this specific point is not good at all.
For this reason I've opened a new
issue<https://github.com/PyBossa/pybossa/issues/271>and hopefully this
week will be solved soon enough. Meanwhile this is what
the documentation should say more or less:

In order to create a tutorial all you have to do is to create a HTML file
without the header and the footer, as these elements are provided by
PyBossa, and focus on the content that you want to create. The file that
you will create will be read by the script file *createTasks.py* and
basically dump the content of the file into the *info object*. The best way
to create an application is to fork one of the PyBossa applications that
have a tutorial and modify the files *template.html *and *tutorial.html*.

I agree with you that this is not the best solution, and we will be
implementing a way to work almost completely directly from the web side, so
you will not need to actually touch any Python code. Meanwhile re-using
app-flickrperson app-urbanparks or any other application in the Github
repository should be enough (but probably not easy at all) to create any
application. If you need more help on this, please, don't hesitate and ask
here again as well as open new issues with all your fantastic feedback.

I hope I've helped a bit.

Cheers,

Daniel


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm following the tutorial at
> http://pybossa.readthedocs.org/en/latest/user/create-application-tutorial.htmland it says:
>
> Adding a tutorial is really simple: you only have to create a file named *
> tutorial.html* and add it to the *info* object:
>
>
> info = { 'thumbnail': http://hosting-service/thumbnail-name.png,
>          'task_presenter': template.html file,
>          'tutorial': tutorial.html
>        }
>
>
> but I don't see anything in the API which describes how to upload
> template.html or tutorial.html.  Is it assumed that I have write access to
> the server through some other mechanism?  Or do I need to find a place to
> host my own files and put absolute URLs in the info block?  I notice that
> this thumbnail parameter seems to assume offsite storage.
>
> From my personal point of view, if I can't create a complete basic app
> using the GUI, it's not really saving me anything because I'm gong to have
> to break out Python to finish the job anyway.  It doesn't seem like it
> would be that much more work to add 3 file browse fields and the form code
> to upload them (or fields for off-set URLs if that's all that's supported).
>  Similarly, why document how to handcraft a URL for testing purposes
> (slug/presenter) when it'd be trivial to add a "Test Presenter" button to
> the app management page.
>
> Has anyone actually created, debugged, and deployed an app by following
> these directions without having direct access to the PyBoss server?  If
> not, that would probably be a useful exercise.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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