Metasign

Overview

Metasign is an e-contract solution to bring businesses and individuals a superior experience when engaging in contracts, and optimizing operation and management systems.

Metasign can serve a wide range of customers' needs:

• Creating different types of contracts easily
• Delivering and getting back completed contracts via online channels
• Storing, tracking, and managing contracts in a more convenient manner
• Generating reports
• Creating contracts in a batch

High level design

Table of Contents

• Metasign

• Overview

• High level design

• Table of Contents

  • Getting Started

  • Prerequisites

  • Clone project

  • Backend Setup

  • Frontend Setup

  • Building

  • Running

  • Screenshot Tutorial

  • Admin page

  • Basic user page

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• Visual Studio 2022 installed.

• .NET 6 SDK or ASP.NET Core RunTime installed.

• Visual Studio Code installed.

• Node.js 14.21.2 and npm (Node.js Package Manager) installed.

• PostgresSQL installed.

Clone project

1. Create a folder to store the backend and frontend code.

• example: folder metasign

2. Open a command prompt in the created folder.

3. Clone the backend repository using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/ncc-erp/metasign.git

Backend Setup

1. Open the backend solution using Visual Studio 2022:

• Launch Visual Studio 2022.

• Select File > Open > Project/Solution.

• Navigate to the backend folder within created folder metasign and open the solution file.

2. Restore NuGet packages:

• In Solution Explorer, right-click the solution and select Restore NuGet Packages.

3. Set the startup project:

• Navigate to the path aspnet-core/src/EC.Web.Host then right-click metasign.Web.Host in Solution Explorer.

Select Set as StartUp Project.

4. Update the appsettings.json file:

• Open the appsettings.json file in the backend project.

• Locate the ConnectionStrings section.

• Update the Default connection string to match your local database information:

{
"ConnectionStrings":  {
"Default":  "Host=localhost;Port=5432;Database=metasign;User ID=yourUID;Password=yourPW;Pooling=true;"
},
// ... other settings ...
}

5. Generate your own local database :

• Go to the path Tools > NuGet Package Manager> Package Manager Console
• Change Default project with src/EC.Web.Host
• Run terminal

Update-database

• Open sql server, you can see new created database.

• Press F5 or select Debug > Start Debugging to run the backend.
• Press Ctrl + f5 or select Debug > Start without Debugging to run the backend without debug Default port backend: http://localhost:44311/

Frontend Setup

1. Open Front-end repository

• Select metasign folder > ncc-erp-metasign > angular
• open code

code .

2. Install Angular CLI globally:

npm install -g @angular/cli

3. Install frontend dependencies:

npm install 

4. Run front-end

npm start

Building

To build the project, follow these steps: 1.Build the backend using Visual Studio Code or the command line. 2.Build the frontend:

npm run build

Running

To run the project, use these commands:

1. Start the backend using Visual Studio Code or the command line.

2. Start the frontend:

npm start

Screenshot Tutorial

Check out our screenshot tutorial on how to use metasign: