Administration manual

This is a small introoductory manual to teach you about how to use e-cidadania without messing everything up :).

User registration

Note

This section is obsolete.

User registration in version 0.1 alpha is done manually due to the lack of a secure authentication mechanism, except the electronic certificate, that is not too much extended.

Anyway, e-cidadania has from the start a basic automated registration system, that the administrator will have to activate when he considers removing the comment symbol (sharp).

apps/userprofile/urls/en.py:107:

# url(r'^register/$', register, name='signup'),

If the platform is well set up, the registration system should take care of everything.

Permissions

Permissions in e-cidadania are inherited directly from the django auth system. This way we have group based permissions and user based permissions. For the first release is enough, but it would be extremely recommended to not use the platform yet, if security if your priority.

e-cidadania 0.2 will have a row-level permission system, more detailed and secure than the current ones.

Groups

Groups are a massive way to give permissions to people. In this version groups will be a way to group people inside the spaces, except that for any reason you’ll have to give them another permission for a specific task.

Spaces

Spaces are where partivipative processes take place.

Modules

e-cidadania is a modular platform. Even its basic features (news, documents, spaces, proposals) are modules that can be replaced at any moment without affecting the general application structure.

Moderation

Moderation tasks inside the platform are very simple. Every module has three basic tasks which are: creation, editing and deletion.

Creation

Depending on the moderation grade that you have been given, you can add simple content or more complex. The highest moderation leves have a very high detail grade when adding content.

Editing

The editing task is similar to creation, it will return a formulary with the current data based on your permission level.

Deletion

Usually in forums a moderator can delete user entries. In e-cidadania that is not the objective. User generated content must be preserved, it only can be deleted by platform administrators.

Frequent errors

The most frequest errors are due to the server or a bad administrator management in the groups/permission case.