Riddhi Jagdish Patil If you are looking for something new to do, here is something that has been waiting for some time to be addressed!

Finished displaying author information on the app page and when clicked on the author name, the apps related to the author pops up on the next page.

To do - CSS indentation needs to be fixed when the short title for apps is not present.

Issue:
To add authors' information to the apps and display the list of apps catering to the author when clicked on the author's name

Solution:
Allow user to save the author information from app_page_edit. The authors information like the author name and the author institution should be saved in the authors table in database. When a user clicks the author name from the app page, new page containing the list of apps created by that particular author should be displayed.

Files changed:
apps/templates/app_page.html
apps/templates/apps_with_author.html

Code changes are present in branch-
https://bitbucket.org/rpatil14/appstore_riddhi/branch/IGBF-2021#diff

Testing steps:
Scenario 1:
1) Click on any app from the available apps.
2) Click on Editors Action -> Edit this page
3) Add author name and institution name and click on save
Refer to author_app.png screenshot

Scenario 2:
1) Click on any app from the available apps.
2) Click on the author name. The page with all the apps related to the author should be displayed
Refer to authors_page.png screenshot

Authors information should be saved in database.
Refer author_table.png

Table details
Refer screenshots apps_app.png, apps_author.png, apps_orderedauthor.png for table details
1) The details of author (author_id, name, institution) are stored in apps_author table
2) The apps_orderedauthor table has the app_id and the author_id and author_order (i.e. author in which authors are added to the app)

Testing results:
Attaching screenshots of local testing to the ticket

Note: - The code changes are not deployed to devAppStore6 as this server has code changes for IGBF-1992 and requires 1st level review.

[~aloraine]

I like that when user clicks an author's name (on an App page), a new page opens showing App "tiles". I think these tiles should have the same appearance as the tiles we are showing on the home page of the App Store.

Question: Is that what is happening here?

If a released App does not yet have a short description, then its "App Tile" should show just a logo of some type and the Bundle-Name parsed from the MANIFEST - nothing else. If the developer has not yet uploaded an App-specific logo, that is fine – in that case, we show the default DNA graphic logo created by Sameer Shanbhag.

Showing Apps by author is another way to list them, similar to viewing Apps by Category. I think authors will enjoy being able to see a summary of their contributions. For example, they might like sending links to their list of Apps to friends, colleagues, or potential clients/employers.

Moved to "Request Change" but actually what I mean is: "Request for clarification" regarding the tile - please see previous comment.

I am using same code app_button.html which is used to display apps on home page to display the App "titles" related to author. When you hover on the app titles, the tool tip with Bundle_Name will be displayed and box-highlight appears around the app. This behavior is same as the home page app behavior.
Also, if the short title is not present then its "App Tile" will show just a logo of some type and the Bundle-Name.

Thanks! Please proceed with next step.

Pull request submitted:
https://bitbucket.org/lorainelab/appstore/pull-requests/120/igbf-2021-display-author-information-on/diff

Merged to master, ready for testing.

Functionality Works as Expected. Deployed on dev-appstore-1.bioviz.org

I have a doubt here:
1. I can have multiple authors with the same name and there is no primary key constraint.
2. There should be some primary_key when you store the author as the author-name can be misspelled and there is no way of identifying what went wrong.
3. Example:
If "Sameer" with Institution Name "UNCC" is an author of App1 and "Sameer" with Institution Name say "UN" is the author of the App2 when I click on either of the Sameer it gives me multiple results for the same app which should not be the case.

Example reproduced at the deployed AppStore.

The current feature is working as expected, but I think there should be some way for us to identify exactly particular author from multiple authors of the same name.

Prof. [~aloraine] can you please review this scenario. Thanks.

Test Result attached as Test-Result.png

Before I weigh in on this: I have 2 questions about how we are tracking authors:

• Are we also capturing the user (login validated thru social auth) that submitted the App?
• How are we enabling editors for same?

Also, please post a quick link to the models.py file that contains the definition of the Author class.

Thanks for catching this!

Sameer Shanbhag

We have the user info for a particular session but that is not linked to the Authors.
Authors are completely different Feature all-together.
Editors are different as well. (Editors are specified by the email addresses)

Model.py for Authors can be found here:
apps/models.py

Requirements (Currently):
Editors ->
1. Need to be a user on the website.
2. Can add editors to an app using their Email only
3. Editors have nothing to do with Authors

Authors:
1. Just add a name and institution
2. Does not need to be a part of our website
3. Can enter a random string like "abcd" and it will still take it as an author.

We need to add a feature to track author name somehow or store an author detail somehow and link all the Apps related to the author to that one Author.

Moving this to complete and let's create a new task for improving author Functionality.