Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: rapidsms-xforms
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: Interactive form builder for both XForms and SMS submissions into RapidSMS
Home-page: http://github.com/nyaruka/rapidsms-xforms
Author: Nicolas Pottier, Eric Newcomer
Author-email: code@nyaruka.com
License: BSD
Download-URL: http://github.com/nyaruka/rapidsms-xforms/downloads
Description: rapidsms-xforms
        ===============
        
        The RapidSMS xforms application provides an interactive web based form builder.  Created forms support data being submitted to them via freehand formatted SMS, standard XForm HTTP posts or structured SMS.  Applications can choose to use xforms to quickly prototype systems, or even use them as their primary interface, using Django signals to perform more complicated logic on new submissions.
        
        **Distinct features**
        
        - Interactive Web UI to build Forms
        - Flexible constraint architecture to allow for validation of inputs with customized error messaging
        - Ability to submit forms either via hand entered SMS's or via HTTP Posts in XForm format
        - Display of submitted forms and editing of values by admin
        - Signal architecture to allow you to plug in your own handler for submitted forms
        - Integration with ODK Collect, an Android XForms client
        
        The full documentation can be found at:
        http://nyaruka.github.com/rapidsms-xforms
        
        The official source code repository is:
        http://www.github.com/nyaruka/rapidsms-xforms
        
        A little video showing this app in use:
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyjEruT5uoU
        
        Built by Nyaruka Ltd under contract of UNICEF:
        http://www.nyaruka.com
        
        Installation From Cheese Shop
        ===========================================
        
        You can install the latest version of the rapidsms-xforms library straight from the cheese shop::
        
        % pip install rapidsms-xforms
        
        You'll also need to install django-eav from GitHub, which isn't in PyPi just yet::
        
        % pip install -e git+http://github.com/mvpdev/django-eav.git#egg=django-eav
        
        Installation From Github
        ===========================================
        
        You can always get the latest version of rapidsms-xforms from github.  Note that the tip of the repo is not guaranteed to be stable.  You should use the verison available via pip unless you have a specific reason not to.
        
        You can install the requirements using the ``pip-requires.txt`` file::
        
        % pip install -r pip-requires.txt
        
        Configuration
        ==============
        
        To enable XForms for your project, edit your ``settings.py`` to add ``rapidsms_xforms``, ``eav`` and ``uni_form``::
        
        INSTALLED_APPS = ( "rapidsms",
        .. other apps ..
        "eav",
        "uni_form",
        "rapidsms_xforms" )
        
        You will probably also want to add XForms as one of the main RapidSMS tabs::
        
        RAPIDSMS_TABS = [
        ('rapidsms.views.dashboard', 'Dashboard'),
        .. other tabs ..
        ('xforms', 'XForms')
        ]
        
        While you are in ``settings.py`` might as well change your ``LOGIN_URL`` to match RapidSMS's::
        
        # set our login url to match RapidSMS's url patterns
        LOGIN_URL = "/account/login"
        
        Finally, include the XForms urls in your project's urls.py::
        
        urlpatterns = patterns('',
        .. other url patterns ..
        ('', include('rapidsms_xforms.urls'))
        )
        
        If you are going to use XForms with ODK Collect or another XForms client, you need to specify your host in you settings as well::
        
        XFORMS_HOST = 'www.rapidsms-server.com'
        
        Finally sync your database with::
        
        % python manage.py syncdb
        
        Once you restart RapidSMS a new tab will created letting you create, manage and view forms and their submissions.
        
        Getting started
        ---------------
        
        Once installed, click on the XForms tab.  Here you can create a new form.  A form represents a new SMS (or XForm) endpoint, allowing users enter data into the system according to the fields you have defined.  Try creating a new form, naving it ``survey`` and add one integer field named ``age`` and a string field named ``name``.
        
        Once saved you can submit SMS messages to the system in the forms::
        
        survey +age 10 +name emily
        survey + age 30   +name monty python
        survey +name eric +age 15.4
        
        You can view submitted reports after they come in, and edit them as you like.
        
        Now try experimenting with adding restrictions to the fields, whether they are required, their min and max values etc..  You'll find you can easily customize the error messages as they come in.
        
        You can also submit surveys using an XForms client, like ODK Collect.  The XForms application adds the appropriate endpoints to both discover available forms, download them to the device, and submit them to the server.  This makes RapidSMS a full XForms endpoint for simple forms, giving you the choice as to whether to submit via a rich XForms client or via SMS.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Framework :: Django
