fizza-rubab / clubelectionportal

Repository containing VS solution to Flask Web Project made for DBMS Project

Instructions for running this project

This application has been developed using Visual Studio’s Python Support.

Requirements for this Project:

1. Visual Studio Community edition 2019.
2. Python support in Visual Studio

Steps for Installation

If you do not have visual studio installed before hand, follow these steps:

1. Download visual studio community edition from here: Visual Studio Installation If python support is not configured:
2. Open Visual Studio
3. Under Tools dropdown, click on ‘Get tools and features’ to open the Visual Studio Installer.
4. The installer presents you with a list of workloads, which are groups of related options for specific development areas. For Python, select the Python development workload and select Install:

Steps for Running the Project

1. Download the zip file from Github.
2. Open the solution (.sln) file in Visual Studio.
3. Before running the project, use the script provided in the repository to create the [Club Elections] database on MS-SQL server.
4. Open the file views.py from solution explorer and change the conx string variable and set the name of your local server in place of the server written. Change the following:

conx_string = "driver={SQL SERVER}; server=DESKTOP-E9RIB71\SQLEXPRESS; database=Club Elections; trusted_connection=YES;"

to

conx_string = "driver={SQL SERVER}; server={Your Server on SSMS}; database=Club Elections; trusted_connection=YES;"

5. Save the file and click on the run Web Server button to run the project.