Sending certificates for events has never been more easy
In order to use this you need to allow less secure apps in the E-mail id through which you want to send E-Mail
Find instructions on how to allow less secure apps here then,
Clone the repository and navigate to the directory
git clone https://github.com/DSC-KIIT/certificate_generator.git
cd certificate_generator
Install npm dependencies and requirements.txt
npm install
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Run the server
node server
Access the web-app by visiting localhost:8000
This reffers to the Email-Id throgh which you wish to send E-Mails and have enabled less secure apps, Currently this works only for Gmail ID's
This refers to the password of the above E-mail adress
This is the template of the Certificate .png and .jpeg file are accepted
This corresponds to the font which will be used to enscribe name on the Certificate template
.ttf files are accepted, Find variety of fonts here
This file containg Name and corresponding email adress fo the participants if u choose to use an excel file here instead of .csv you can find instructions below
But using a CSV file is strongly recommended
Please note that the first row should be name and email
as shown below
or you can fill up the data in pre-existing certificateCSV.csv file and use it
This reffers to the cordinates on them image template where name should be enscribed
You can find These co-ordinates through Microsoft-Paint by hovering over the desired postion and the cordinates will be diaplayed in the extreme bottom left as shown below
Here the co-ordinates are 990,680
You can track the progress of sending certificates through the terminal session which you used to run the command node server an example is shown below
By default it expect a CSV file containing a Name and Email adress of participants, howerver we can also make it read from a Excel file by the following tweaks
But using a CSV file is strongly recommended
In the main.py file
In line 26 replace
df = pd.read_csv('cert_files/certificateCSV.csv')
with
df = pd.read_excel('cert_files/certificateCSV.csv')
And you are ready to go
Do not click the submit button in the Web-app repeatedly as this may leads to dilevering multiple certificates to a single participant
Click once and wait for approx 4-5 sec for the progress to be displayed in the terminal session
It is recommended to try this once on a dummy CSV/Excel file containing your own email before trying it out on the actual CSV or Excel file
