Save Search & Subscription

Purpose

The save search and subscription functionality can be used to enable to save the searches he makes and would like to revisit in future or subscribe to them to get updates on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.

Data Model

Data Model

Save Search

Holds information about the search query and the parameters that are saved by the user. The data model can be found in models/04_pr.py.

Field Name	Purpose	Datatype/table
timestamp	Keeps the track of time of creation and subsequent modifications.	datetime
user_id	The user id of the user who saved the search.	FK referenced from auth_user.id (integer)
subscribed	The subscribed status of the user to a particular saved search.	boolean
search_vars	The search parameters for the search saved by the user	string (Assumption for the time being)
person_id	The person_id of the user who saves the search	FK referenced from pr_person

Subscription

Holds information about the subscription details. The data model can be found in models/msg.py.

Field Name	Purpose	Datatype/table
timestamp	Keeps the track of created and modified time.	datetime
user_id	The user_id of the user who selects the subscription mode	FK referenced from auth_user.id (integer)
subscribe_mode	Describes the mode(s) of subscription selected
subscription_frequency	The frequency at which the subscription are to be sent.
person_id	The person_id of the user who saves the search	FK referenced from pr_person