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#Prinsep Kiosk Room A system to manage the SMU Prinsep Hostel's Kiosk Room Equipment.

Preview:

##Usage You have to log in with your Facebook account Once you're in, you can:

• Request items by clicking on Borrow - The RS on kiosk duty will need to approve your request before they can hand over the item to you in the kiosk room
• Request RS Access - It will only be approved if you become an RS

As an RS on the system, you can:

• Add items - Add new items that are added to the kiosk room
• Change items - Update the information of existing items
• Delete items
• Give items - Approve loan requests made by other residents
• Reject requests
• Collect items - Collect items once the residents give them back

As an HMT on the system, you can:

• Grant RS Access
• Reject RS Access
• Revoke RS Access

##Development Role management and the workflow of loaning items is pretty straightforward. What cannot be changed straight from the website though are:

• The members of the Hostel Management Team
• Item types ["Electronic", "Sport", "Board", "Event"]
• Item locations ["Game Shelf", "Electronics Shelf", "Window Corner", "Plug Corner", "Racks", "Floor Shelves"]

If the above have to be changed, it can be done by:

• Hostel Management Team - Add new HMT's facebook IDs into the array HMT_FACEBOOK_IDS in /server/accounts.js
• Item types - Add new item into in /client/prinsepkiosk.html Item locations - Add new location into the in /client/prinsepkiosk.html AND add new images (JPG/PNG files) of the new locations in /public/mapitems/ with file names the same as the option values

###Database The mongodb database has to be constantly backed up in case data gets corrupted or goes missing. To conduct backups and restores, mongoDB must be installed on your PC and you must have access to mongodump and mongorestore on your shell

####Backup To run a backup, you will need a directory on your system, where you will store your backup dumps. Let's called this BACKUPDIR. Once you have that, on your shell, run

meteor mongo -url prinsepkiosk.meteor.com

You will be supplied with credentials in the format

mongodb://client:PASSWORD@server:PORT/prinsepkiosk_meteor_com

Within 1 minute (no jokes), run the following command on your shell

mongodump -u client -p PASSWORD -h server:PORT -d prinsepkiosk_meteor_com -o BACKUPDIR

You should see a scrolling window and new files in your backup dir if the backup was successful

####Restore To run a restore, run the following command on your shell

meteor mongo -url prinsepkiosk.meteor.com

With your credentials, within 1 minute (no seriously, go read the Meteor docs), run

mongorestore -u client -p PASSWORD -h server:PORT -d prinsepkiosk_meteor_com -o BACKUPDIR/prinsep_meteor_com

Go check prinsepkiosk.meteor.com to confirm the restore happened