The Makerspace Automation Suite (MAS) is a Wordpress plugin built for the Decatur Makers by Team Goatr, a team of students from Georgia Tech. The Makerspace Automation Suite automates the onboarding process of creating accounts and sending email invitations to new members who register for the makerspace. MAS integrates with a G Suite account, using the G Suite directory as a master data store for user information and accounts. MAS also integrates with Stripe for online payment processing and subscription management. MAS provides a registration process UI, member profile page UI, admin member table UI, and admin member edit UI.
The Detailed Design Document containing the initial specifications of this plugin is available under the documentation folder. This is available in both pdf and docx versions for editing as the specifications may change in the future. Please consult this documentation for information on how this plugin is built.
- Bug Fixes
- Admin edit page now allows edit of subscription status (#113) and blank RFID (#110)
- Navigating to Member page when logged out redirects to /login (#97)
- Registration form now doesn't allow submit if passwords are bad (#107)
- Removed unused admin pages
- Fixed issue where site is broken when plugin is first loaded because of no installed dependencies
- Check for expired members when member table is loaded, set them to expired
- Registration form blocks submission for bad username (#130)
- Known Bugs and Defects
- No email alerts are sent to non-recurring members when membership expires (#135)
- When non-recurring members expire, they do not immediately transition into an 'Expired' status. This only happens the next time the member table is loaded after they expire. We don't have a good way to trigger this to happen. Recurring members get triggered by a Stripe expiration event.
- Login may fail when logged into another (non-DecaturMakers) Google account. This may not be an issue with the new G Suite plugin suggested below (#44)
- New Features
- More edit capabilities for admins editing members
- Restyling of admin member edit page
- URL filtering of member table (before, since, founding, type, status)
- Added member creation date and founding member status to member table
- Member change password functionality
- Admin emails are now configurable in the MAS Options admin page
- Bug Fixes
- Fix update card functionality on member page (#111)
- ZIP code prompt added to update card popup (#109)
- Member page formatting fixed by removing Angular and using Bootstrap container-fluid
- Background color fix on member profile, registration review, and registration submit pages (#117)
- Known Bugs and Defects
- Registration form still allows you to submit when username field is red (#130)
- Registration form still allows you to submit when passwords are mismatched
- Admin member edit page doesn't allow edit of subscription status (#113)
- Admin member edit page cannot be submitted with RFID field blank (#110)
- Passwords aren't validated per G Suites requirements (#107)
- If you navigate to the member page without being logged in via Google, PHP error is shown (#97)
- Old admin pages still need to be cleaned up
- New Features
- Admin member table
- Admin member edit page
- Member profile page
- Members can view and update information
- New registration form
- Creates G Suite users
- Processes Stripe payment
- Associates Stripe account with G Suite user
- Sends new members invite to a Slack group
- MAS Options page to edit settings
- RFID webhook to enable extensibility
- Stripe webhook listener to process events sent by Stripe
- Admin notifications sent when new members registered and when payment fails
- Bug Fixes
- n/a
- Known Bugs and Defects
- Some pages have white background (#117)
- Card update functionality doesn't work for members (#111)
- Card update prompt doesn't request ZIP code (#109)
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Download the ZIP file of the MAS Plugin from the releases section.
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Install the Makerspace Automation Suite Plugin via the Upload ZIP Folder option.
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Install the following packages on the server:
- php-curl
- sendmail
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Install Required PHP Libraries on the Server.
- From within the plugin's directory, run 'resources/install.sh' to install required PHP libraries.
- This script installs composer (https://getcomposer.org), and runs it to install the library dependencies.
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Update Keys.
- Log into Wordpress as an admin
- Under the Settings panel, select 'MAS Options'
- Populate the G Suite access JSON key (must be a service account with domain-wide delegation)
- Populate the Stripe Public and Secret Keys (supports test mode and production mode)
- Populate the Slack Secret Key (used for sending slack invites)
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Populate Admin Emails.
- From the MAS Options page, fill in the Admin Email Addresses (used for new member emails and failed payment emails)
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Update the Wordpress Website to Refer to User Pages the Plugin Created.
- Add a 'Member' tab that points to /member/
- This is the member profile page
- Add links to /register/ where the user is expected to enter the registration process
- Add a 'Member' tab that points to /member/
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Install the Google Apps Login plugin.
- Download Link
- Follow the configuration steps provided with the plugin.
- Configure the plugin to automatically redirect to Google Login
- If the website fails to load after the plugin has been installed (i.e. a white page), check the server's PHP logs to see if a dependency was not installed correctly.
- If the Makerspace Automation Suite displays error text but the rest of the website still loads, check the validity of the API keys under the "MAS Options" page in the Administrator settings page.
- If the Makerspace Automation Suite is not visible in the administrator dashboard, check to ensure that you are an administrator who can edit settings.
- If an error is shown when the member page is loaded, check that you are logged in as a G Suite user and not a wordpress-only user