Updating the Contact Form and Students listed in Attendance

To add new students to the attendance scanner, you must..

1. Get the URL of the CSV contact form. Instead of /edit at the end of the link, replace it with /export?format=csv
2. Sign into https://stuypulse-attendance.appspot.com/admin/settings.
3. Replace the URL with the URL found at Step 1.

Attendance ID Scanner

Run the scanner by executing ./scanner.sh

An optional --offline flag can be passed to the scanner to run it without an Internet connection.

Alternatively, an experimental Python version of the scanner is available (scanner.py) with the same features.

Setting up a local development environment

Installing the SDK

1. Download and install the Google App Engine SDK for Python

Install dependencies

1. Install python-pip with sudo apt-get install python-pip
2. Install all dependencies by running mkdir google-appengine/libs; pip install -t google-appengine/libs -r google-appengine/requirements.txt

Running the development web server

1. You will need a google web service client account, follow the instructions here: Create a Google Service account
2. Set your environment variables, and set up your testing environment with this template: Template
3. Run the above file once you set up everything
4. Go to localhost:5000 in a browser

Configure the scanner

1. Open scanner.sh and change the line SERVER_ADDR=https://stuypulse-attendance.appspot.com/ to SERVER_ADDR=localhost:8080
2. For the experimental Python version, change the contents of the SERVER_ADDRESS variable to localhost:8080

Create an administrator

Visit localhost:5000/admin/create_admin to create an administrator

Deploying to Google App Engine

1. Run gcloud config set project stuypulse-attendance
2. Run gcloud app deploy

Automatic Email Not Working

It may be possible that less secure apps got turned on for our automatic gmail account. Please contact the web developers to turn it back off.