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31 For installation notes, please see the file INSTALL.TXT 31 For installation notes, please see the file INSTALL.TXT
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34 3. Usage 34 3. Usage
35 ======== 35 ========
36 The system is designed to accessed through the command-line, e-mail or web 36 See the index.html file in the "doc" directory.
37 interface. Roundup has some useful doucmentation in its docstrings, so
38 "pydoc roundup" will give useful information.
39
40 3.1 Command-line
41 ----------------
42 The command-line tool is called "roundup-admin" and is used for most low-level
43 database manipulations such as:
44 . creating a database instance
45 . redefining the list of products ("create" and "retire" commands)
46 . adding users manually, or setting their passwords ("create" and "set")
47 . other stuff - run it with no arguments to get a better description of
48 what it does.
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51 3.2 E-mail
52 ----------
53 See the docstring at the start of the roundup/mailgw.py source file.
54 Use "pydoc roundup.mailgw".
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57 3.3 Web
58 -------
59 Hopefully, this interface is pretty self-explanatory...
60
61 Index views may be modified by the following arguments:
62 :sort - sort by prop name, optionally preceeded with '-'
63 to give descending or nothing for ascending sorting.
64 :group - group by prop name, optionally preceeded with '-' or
65 to sort in descending or nothing for ascending order.
66 :filter - selects which props should be displayed in the filter
67 section. Default is all.
68 :columns - selects the columns that should be displayed.
69 Default is all.
70 propname - selects the values the node properties given by propname
71 must have (very basic search/filter).
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75 3. Design 39 3. Design
76 ========= 40 =========
77 See the information in the "doc" directory. 41 See the information in the "doc" directory.

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