PyWishlist

This is a web based wishlist and secret santa implementation. The secret santa implementation is thanks to @phylomeno way more intelligent since the fall of 2018. It takes past calculations into consideration to maximise the randomness.

Installation on a debian 8 based linux

Install required libraries

apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
pip install virtualenv

Create and install virtual environment

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
deactivate

Optional library for uwsgi (if used with apache or nginx)

source venv/bin/activate
pip install uwsgi
deactivate

Application setup

After setting up the environment, you should copy dist/pywishlist.cfg.example to dist/pywishlist.cfg and configure at least the following options:

• DEBUG: Debug should be disabled in production. It configures if errors are only logged or sent via email to the admin.
• APPSECRET: This is used to encrypt also cookies for the client. Set this to a random string. If you change this, all cookies are invalid and users have to login again.
• SITETITLE: Give your installation a custom name like "Smith's Secret Santa".
• Multiple pictures: Change them to customize your installation further.
• ADMINS: Users added to this list are granted administrative privileges. Example: ['[email protected]', '[email protected]']
• EMAIL*: You have to configure a working email server. Without it, users can not verify their accounts!

Important notes

• The secret santa emails are sent in the language the admin has set in his browser at the time the "Go" button is pressed.

Administrator manual

• You can send emails to all users with the Bulk Email function.
• Secret Santa Management allows you to add exclusions. They are bidirectional, so you don't have to add two rules if i.e. partners should not gift to each other.
• Also in Secret Santa Management, you can execute the calculation which sends out emails to all users with who they have to gift to. Users can always check past calculations on their profile page.
• To remove a user from secret santa calculations and hide the wishlist for all users except the admin GUI, set the user to hidden.

ToDo

• Multi tennant?
• Document how to configure the app behind Apache2 or Ngingx (the "originally intended" way to use this).