Tola Data

Share, Load, Edit and Display data from various mobile data collection platforms.

The Read app is intended for use with FormHub data collection platform. You should be able to add an additional app using Read as a template to import data or create new "reads" from other data sources. You only need to import the new app, add the new read templates and update the base template to include your new app as sub-navigation to the main read.

Feed: A new JSON or XML feed of one or more aggregated data sources
Read: A data source to load data into the system from
Silo: A data store that can combine one or more Feeds (Data sources)
Display: Where data is viewed and edited

USING virtualenv

mkdir frds_project cd frds_project (Install virtualenv) pip install virtualenv

cd frds_project

Create Virtualenv

virtualenv —no-site-packages frds-venv

• use no site packages to prevent virtualenv from seeing your global packages

. frds-venv/bin/activate

• allows us to just use pip from command line by adding to the path rather then full path

##Activate Virtualenv source frds-venv/bin/activate

Fix probable mysql path issue (for mac)

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin

• or whatever path you have to your installed mysql_config file in the bin folder of mysql

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set up DB

python manage.py syncdb

Run App

If your using more then one settings file change manage.py to point to local or dev file first python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

• 0’s let it run on any local address i.e. localhost,127.0.0.1 etc.