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Hello,

I would like to add a button to Indico site, which would redirect users to external payment system, but i cannot find a html file responsible for “Payments” tab in management area of a conference. Can u guide me, where can i find html files of my Indico distribution?

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You should not edit any of the core files. Such changes would be lost during any update.

If you want to integrate a payment system, you need to write an Indico plugin. Please look at the existing PayPal plugin to see how to do this; you might want to copy that plugin and adapt it to the payment provider you are using.

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Hi, as per your suggestion, if i write my own plugin via copying PayPal then how can i install it locally?
Please guide me on this.
Thank You.

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Hey,

here is a brief overview of how it is done. So, basically it boils down to installing the package in the right place and enabling it in the indico.conf file.

Regards,
Michal

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Hi Michal, Thanks for your quick reply. I have already seen the Link you said, but I just want know where should i put my edited code(downloaded from Github and edited) and how to run to install it?
Regards,
Shilkumar

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but I just want know where should i put my edited code(downloaded from Github and edited)

It doesn’t really matter where you clone the repository to.

how to run to install it?

It depends. What I would recommend is either

  • go to the directory of the plugin (where the setup.py file is located) and use pip install . - you need to make sure you use the correct pip executable so that the plugin is installed in the right Python environment
  • use build-wheel.py to build a wheel - the script is located in the Indico repository in bin/maintenance; this will create a wheel archive which you can install using pip e.g. pip install indico-wheel.whl

Hope that helps,
Regards