Campaign Manager (CM)

Campaign Manager (CM) provides Single dash-board for Political leadership-in the run-up to the elections.

• You can use this open source application and set it up in your own server(setup instructions are below).
• AVS Labs Pte Ltd(http://avslabs.co/) also offers the Campaign Manager SAAS in a nominal price.
• Customization: You can also contact AVS Labs, if you need customized version ( it can be done in a nominal price).

Key Benefits for political party leadership –

• Delegates different tasks to party hierarchy with delivery deadlines
• Tracks progress and provides auto alerts to leader on tasks’ status
• Prioritizes Constituency Tasks in a criticality matrix, for better focus
• Provides Simple Dashboard to manage election campaign, by any parameter – Issue/Delegate/Constituency/Criticality

Setup

Setup Requirements

• OS: Debian 9 or higher version (or can be installed in other Linux variants)
• Server: Apache (latest version)
• Server-Side Scripting Engine: PHP 7.x
• Database: Mariadb 10.3 or higher version

Step 1:

Download the web source code and place in a directory, for example: /opt/cm/web/ Edit the web/App/Config.php file and modify the Database configuration details (create the database called "cm" first : mysql> create database cm;).

Step 2:

Configure the apache with following or similar configuration so that it will mark "/opt/cm/web/public" as root of the publicly exposed directory(don't expose the root directory to public).

    DocumentRoot /opt/cm/web/public
    
    <Directory /opt/cm/web/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
    </Directory>

Step 3:

Create a folder called "data" above the web folder(exmaple: /opt/cm/data/" and ensure the apache server has full permission over this directory (ensure this directory is NOT publicly accessible).

Step 4:

Edit the "web/App/Config.php" file and set the debug mode to true Once everything is ready, go to "http(s)://[SERVER_ADDRESS]/setup/" Enter the Super Admin username and password then click Setup.

Step 5:

If everything goes well, you should be able to see success message. Then disable the debug mode by setting DEBUG_MODE value to false in "web/App/Config.php" file.

Step 6:

Go to "http(s)://[SERVER_ADDRESS]/" and login with super admin.

Step 7:

Create organization and add an admin user to the organization. Once done, log out from the super admin.

Step 8:

Log in into the "http(s)://[SERVER_ADDRESS]/" with the newely created admin credentials.

Usage

Constituency Addition

Step1:

Login with the above admin credentials

Step 2:

Select “Constituency->Add” Menu

Step 3:

Fill the constituency name and party strength(strong,moderate/weak) in the constituency

Users

Feeder account:

• Feeder account is used by party workers at party level. 
• This account can be used for adding new feed and view their tasks.
• If there is a task, the feeder can mark as completed after finishing the work or give feedback to the admin.

Creating a Feeder Account:

	(at least one constituency should be there in order to add feeder account)

	Step 1:
		Select “Users->Add” Menu

	Step 2:
		Fill the form , select the role as Feeder

	Step 3:
		Click “Add” button

Admin account:

• The admin user can view the feeds given by feeders. 
• Admin can create new task or task based on the feed
• Admin dashboard allows to view the overdue tasks, completed tasks that are yet to be verified by the admin, other tasks that are still not resolved.
• Admin can create constituencies 
• Admin can create feeder, data entry(subadmin) accounts


Creating admin Account:	

	Step 1:
		Select “Users->Add” Menu

	Step 2:
		Fill the form , select the role as Admin

	Step 3:
		Click “Add” button

Data Entries/subadmin account:

• The data entry account can add a feed on behalf of the feeders.

Creating the Account:	

	Step 1:
		Select “Users->Add” Menu

	Step 2:
		Fill the form , select the role as Subadmin

	Step 3:
		Click “Add” button

Mobile Client Repository:

https://github.com/CSPF-Founder/CampaignManagerMobile