I understand that Senaite.Lims uses ZODB for data storage and manipulation. Are there any tool available for browsing and manipulating the data? Or at minimum, exporting data to other format?
Then did " sudo -u plone_buildout bin/buildout ";
The error message I got is:
“Couldn’t find index page for ‘senaite.exporter’ (maybe misspelled?)
Getting distribution for ‘senaite.exporter’.
Couldn’t find index page for ‘senaite.exporter’ (maybe misspelled?)
While:
Installing instance.
Getting distribution for ‘senaite.exporter’.
Error: Couldn’t find a distribution for ‘senaite.exporter’.”
I guess I will get similar errors if I add any other senaite add-ons. Please advise. Thanks a lot! – Lei
Hi @fatfatcoyote , there is no release of senaite.exporter available in PyPi and this is the reason you got errors when running bin/buildout. senaite.exporter is an add-on that allows you to export data from listings into CSV or XLS, but does not have nothing to do with db migration or ZODB data manipulation.
ZMI (Zope Management Interface) is the default tool that comes with the system, from which you can access to catalogs, objects, permissions, etc. ZMI is very powerful, but requires a deep knowledge of the system, otherwise you can easily end up with a broken instance. Documentation here: https://docs.zope.org/zope2/zope2book/UsingZope.html
If you are interested on accessing to the database records, browse through them, get their properties and values, etc. I strongly suggest you to use senaite.jsonapi, a RESTful JSON API that allows you to interact/query the system: https://github.com/senaite/senaite.jsonapi/
In order to get familiar with this tool, we strongly recommend to install a JSON interpreter extension for your browser (there are plenty of them, e.g. say “JSON Lite” for Firefox or “JSONView” for Chrome, etc.)
To reopen this question…
I can get senaite.exporter to be visible as a Plone add on by cloning from Github, making an egg of it locally, then adding it to the buildout.cfg as a development egg.
However, when I activate it and restart the instance, it’s showing up as an activated add-on, but nothing seems to show up in Senaite itself.
I’m a python novice at the most optimistic…so any attempts to fix this without guidance have not gone anywhere…
Any suggestions?
Many thanks,
-Adam Mumford