ALISS

ALISS (A Local Information System for Scotland) is a service to help you find help and support close to you when you need it most.

JS Plugin

Embed ALISS search features on your own site with the aliss.js plugin.

Links

• Production site: https://www.aliss.org
• Search API endpoint (v4): https://www.aliss.org/api/v4/services/search/
• Search API endpoint (v5): https://www.aliss.org/api/v5/services/search/
• API docs: http://docs.aliss.org
• API docs repo: https://github.com/aliss/Docs

How to install ALISS

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2019+ or Visual Studio Code
• .NET Framework 4.7.2
• SQL Server
• Node >=16.20.2
• NPM >=8.19.4
• See package.json for node packages
• Elasticsearch >=7.17.1

Install steps

These steps assume that you have the above packages installed.

1. Clone repository https://help.github.com/en/articles/cloning-a-repository.
2. Deploy both database to your SQL Server instance
3. Install the npm packages using command npm i in \ALISS\ALISS.Admin.Web\Ui
4. Run gulp to compile assets
5. Install the npm packages using command npm i in \ALISS\ALISS.CMS\ALISS.THEME
6. Run gulp to compile assets
7. Copy ALISS.Admin.Web\appSettings.config.template to ALISS.Admin.Web\appSettings.config
8. Update this file with your own configuration
9. Copy ALISS.API\appSettings.config.template to ALISS.API\appSettings.config
10. Update this file with your own configuration
11. Copy ALISS.CMS\appSettings.config.template to ALISS.CMS\appSettings.config
12. Update this file with your own configuration
13. Copy ALISS.CMS\connection.config.template to ALISS.CMS\connection.config
14. Update this file with your own configuration
15. Update ALISS.CMS\config\umbracoSettings.config and set a valid email address for email notifications
16. Set the startup project to ALISS.Admin.Web
17. Open Package Manager Console and set the Default project to ALISS.Business
18. run Update-Databases to make sure the admin database is up to date
19. Add admin.aliss.local to IIS and to your hosts file, pointing to the ALISS.Admin.Web folder *
20. Add api.aliss.local to IIS and to your hosts file, pointing to the ALISS.API folder *
21. Add cms.aliss.local to IIS and to your hosts file, pointing to the ALISS.CMS folder *
22. Build the entire solution
23. Open the Umbraco backoffice by browsing to http://cms.aliss.local/umbraco Username: admin@admin.com Password: 1234567890 (please change this)
24. Customise the content and configuration as you desire
25. Browse to the admin site at http://admin.aliss.local Username: admin Password: Changem3 (please change this)
26. Go to the Accessibility Features, What, Who, and Service Areas pages under Lookups in the navigation
27. In each of these pages, edit and save (no need to make a change) one item from each page, which will build the corresponding index (you can add and change these as you see fit)
28. Go to the ElasticSearch Management page and rebuild the Organisation and Services indexes (this will generate empty indexes)
29. Test the API is working by browsing to http://api.aliss.local/swagger
30. Go to the public site at http://cms.aliss.local

* The site URLs can be anything you want, but the domain part (aliss.local) needs to be the same on all three sites to enable login between the admin and public sites. You will also need to change the related appSettings values in the appSettings.config files.

Notes on data

Regarding boundaries and service areas see https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/geography-codes-and-labels