Confuguring PyCDB

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To configure your PyCDB installation you have to do the following:

1. Go to conf/ folder of PyCDB

2. Copy some local_... file to a new one called local_[installation_name].py. The content will be something like this (comments on each section describe the sense):

import os
from utils import *
import common

# This will allow error notifications to the user (it will appear as error info web page)
DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

# This sets up project path to properly store databases files (including meta-storage of SQLite and graph storage)
PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))[:-5] # cut "/conf" from the end

# This is settings of meta-storage (it is used by applications to store, for example, appearance information)
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
        'NAME': PROJECT_DIR + '/storage.sqlite',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
        'USER': '',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
        'PASSWORD': '',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
        'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
        'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
    }
}

# This is a path to static folder (used only when server is launched in production as FCGI application)
STATIC_ROOT = PROJECT_DIR + '/static'

# Email settings to be used for forming emails
EMAIL_SITE_ROOT_URL = "http://localhost:8082"
EMAIL_FROM = "pce.dev@gmail.com"

# List of configurations that could be addressed by user of web user interface
CONFIGURATIONS = {
    "facility" : ConfigurationInfo("Facility configuration", "graph_db.configurations.facility.Facility", PROJECT_DIR + "/graph_db/databases/facility.gpickle"),
}

# List of custom applications to be added
common.INSTALLED_APPS += [
#    'facility_tools'
]

# List of custom menu sources to be added
common.MENU_SOURCES += [
#    "facility_tools.menu.MENU_ITEMS",
    "std_editor.menu.MENU_ITEMS"
]