django-microsys 1.18.13

Django microSYS (System Integration Service) - Multilingual Django Starter Pack, Packed with Features.

Django microSYS - System Integration Service

microSYS is a multilingual Django app that gives a project-level system layer for user management, branding, translations, scopes, navigation, activity logging, guided onboarding, data export, and dynamic CRUD tooling. It is not just a themed admin shell: it is a fairly large internal-systems toolkit that bundles runtime configuration, user operations, auditability, UI infrastructure, and zero-boilerplate management patterns into one package. The package now keeps the landing README short and moves the long-form operating and integration guidance into docs/.

What microSYS gives you

• A first-launch setup wizard at /sys/setup/ for branding, languages, themes, global home URL, and sidebar structure.
• A runtime system UI for users and superusers, including Options, user management, profiles, 2FA, activity logs, scopes, and system settings.
• A database-backed SystemSettings singleton layered over MICROSYS_CONFIG, so projects can seed defaults in code and refine them in the UI later.
• A ScopedModel base with audit fields, soft-delete behavior, actor tracking, filtered managers, and automatic scope handling.
• Zero-boilerplate sections and dynamic modal CRUD flows for auxiliary models, plus a reusable context-menu/event model for richer interactions.
• A built-in audit trail with signal-based logging, merged User/Profile updates, diff capture, masked sensitive fields, and download/export log entries.
• Universal data helpers such as fetch_file, fetch_excel, sticky-form autofill, tutorial overlays, and persistent UI preferences.

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• Django 5.1+
• django-crispy-forms
• crispy-bootstrap5
• django-tables2
• django-filter
• psutil
• pyotp
• qrcode

Installation

pip install django-microsys crispy-bootstrap5 psutil pyotp qrcode
# OR
pip install git+https://github.com/debeski/django-microsys.git crispy-bootstrap5 psutil pyotp qrcode

Minimal Quick Start

1. Add the app and its companion packages to INSTALLED_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "django.contrib.admin",
    "django.contrib.auth",
    "django.contrib.contenttypes",
    "django.contrib.sessions",
    "django.contrib.messages",
    "django.contrib.staticfiles",
    "crispy_forms",
    "crispy_bootstrap5",
    "django_filters",
    "django_tables2",
    "microsys",
]

2. Add the middleware, context processor, and Crispy Bootstrap 5 settings.

MIDDLEWARE = [
    # ...
    "django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware",
    "microsys.middleware.ActivityLogMiddleware",
]

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        # ...
        "OPTIONS": {
            "context_processors": [
                # ...
                "microsys.context_processors.microsys_context",
            ],
        },
    },
]

CRISPY_ALLOWED_TEMPLATE_PACKS = "bootstrap5"
CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = "bootstrap5"

3. Mount microsys.urls at project root so the bundled auth and system routes stay at /accounts/... and /sys/....

from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    path("", include("microsys.urls")),
]

With that root include in place, microsys provides /accounts/... and /sys/.... If your project does not define its own / view, microsys falls back from an unresolved / request into its login/setup flow instead of leaving a 404.

4. Run the setup command.

python manage.py microsys_setup

5. Sign in as a superuser and complete the first-launch wizard at /sys/setup/. After that, the main runtime UI lives under /sys/.

For a fuller setup path, prefix-mount guidance, and first-launch expectations, use the Getting Started guide.

Key Capabilities

• Onboarding and runtime configuration: first-launch setup wizard, Options view, runtime System Settings modal, language/theme defaults, translation overrides, and a global Home destination.
• User and security operations: interactive user wizard, grouped translated permissions, profile management, multiple 2FA flows, backup codes, and runtime preference persistence.
• Generic CRUD infrastructure: dynamic sections, AJAX-driven modal CRUD, automatic form/table/filter discovery, context-menu actions, and reusable event dispatch.
• Navigation and UI infrastructure: resolver-driven sidebar builder, runtime tree rendering, user-level reordering, tutorial overlays, theme-aware system surfaces, and template injection hooks.
• Data movement and productivity helpers: universal file download, Excel export, smart autofill, sticky-form cloning, and generic list/filter helpers.
• Audit and governance: signal-based activity logging, diff capture, masked sensitive fields, deduplicated entries, download/export logging, and scoped visibility.
• Framework-level automation: translation patches, scoped-model auto-injection, actor tracking, soft-delete, and config layering across defaults, project settings, and runtime UI.

Documentation

• Documentation Hub
• Getting Started
• Admin Guide
• Developer Guide
• Customization Guide
• Reference
• Changelog

Maintenance

microSYS documentation now follows a simple rule:

• Evergreen usage and customization docs live under docs/.
• Release-by-release history lives in CHANGELOG.md.

That keeps the landing page easy to scan while still giving the project a thorough in-repo manual.