Docker setup - Configuring sendgrid email about chiefonboarding HOT 7 CLOSED

Hmm.. that's weird.

Okay, let's debug this a bit. First check the name of the docker container:

docker ps

Open Django shell by going into the docker container (I am using chiefonboarding_web as the docker name here, change it with whatever you have):

docker exec -it chiefonboarding_web python manage.py shell

Sending email manually (change email address to where you want this test email to go):

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail("Test subject", "Test message", settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, ["[email protected]"])

The only thing that I have changed here compared to the code in the app, is that I didn't add an HTML email here, but I don't think that will matter much. If it fails, it should show an error message, which should give us more info on why it failed.

If that works, then let's see if you indeed have everything that you need to send the email. You should have a bunch of WelcomeMessage records. Try to do this, in that same shell:

from organization.models import WelcomeMessage
print(WelcomeMessage.objects.all().count())

The number that it shows should be 35.

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As an update: I just got an email with "Test subject" and "Test message" in the mail. Not sure if it was you, but you probably should have changed the email address (as mentioned above). Just so you know... it worked (if that indeed was you, lol).

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Hey sorry. Yes, that was me. Changed the email after running that command :|

WelcomeMessage objects are not present. Did I miss initialising some data?

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Hah, no worries!

Okay, that's easy to fix. Previously, this needed to run separated, but with the latest version it doesn't. Anyways run (change chiefonboarding_web):

docker exec -it chiefonboarding_web python manage.py loaddata welcome_message.json

when it's done, it will say that it imported 35 items or so.

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Thank you so much for patiently helping me. It is working fine now. We will setup the app now.

Before I close, Anything else I would have missed running?

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You are welcome. Happy to help!

If you want to load some demo data, then you could run this command as well (change chiefonboarding_web):

docker exec -it chiefonboarding_web python manage.py loaddata all.json

Note: if you already have some data in the application, then that might get wiped/overwritten by the data in that fixture. So, if you already created some templates/sequences, then it's probably not a good idea to run that.

You should be good to go though!

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Sure. Thank you so much for your help 🙏 🙇‍♂️

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