[okfn-labs] Creating a PyBossa app

Mon Nov 26 16:49:05 UTC 2012

Dear Tom,

I've pushed a few minutes ago an improvement for Flickr Person Finder and
Urban Parks that I think it will make much easier to deploy new
applications based on those ones :-) With the new changes a new user will
have to do the following:

   1. Fork Flickr Person Finder
   2. Create an account in crowdcrafting.org
   3. Modify *app.json* where you specify the name of the application,
   short name, thumbnail, description and question for tasks.
   4. Modify *template.html* and *tutorial.html* to fit his needs (if your
   images are already in Flickr it will be really easy)
   5. Create the application running the following command: python
   createTasks.py -k YOUR-KEY -u http://crowdcrafting.org

Those steps will create for you the application. I've also added a bit more
of information to the documentation about this new feature in the tutorial
section, as well as about how you should create a tutorial for your
application.

We still far from the perfect UX but we will be approaching it thanks to
comments like yours! Thanks!!

Cheers,

Daniel

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Daniel Lombraña González <
teleyinex at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el
intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino PDF, HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV
o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un
fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él.
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