Assistance


Traductions

This page gathers a few sub-features which could not be classified elsewhere.

Assistance

"Help"

When one clicks on the "Help" link, the present main page of the user manual opens.

N. B.: the star with five spikes, always visible at the right of the window, an becomes less fuzzy when hovered by the mouse cursor, is the entry point to a contextual help; when one clicks this star, in the context of the page of the screenshot above... so, one can read this very line.

"Save"

A backup of the database is recommenced each time when a consequent work is achieved, for example at the end of a day's work.

Backup

Currently, only the button "SQLite format" provides a reliable backup. One downloads a file named, for instance, db.sqlite-2023-04-12_17-03-45.zip, which is in ZIP format, and provides after decompression a file named db.sqlite3 .his file contains all of the database; it allows an administrator with write permissions on the system supporting the service SLM, to restore its state exactly as it was at the backup's date.

So, with the file named db.sqlite-2023-04-12_17-03-45.zip, one can restore the state as it was on the 12th April 2023 at 17:03:45.

"Maintenance"

Ordinary users of SLM, who are part of the team which can authentify, cannot make much with this feature; the maintenance of the database is only possible for users who have "super-user" permissions.

no maintenance

If you are an ordinary user of SLM, but that you know some mean to become "super-user", you logout from SLM, and then re-authentify with the accreditation (login name and password) of the super-user.

Here is the appearance of the screen when one has those permissions; then, one can maintain directly the database: arbitrarily delete data, add new ones, and so on.

maintenance

Making a backup is highly recommended for the database before beginning any maintenance. Actions made by super-users are logged in the database, as long as they are using the maintenance system provided by Django, the framework which powers SLM.