How to Install Databox in Senaite

@seetalahoru senaite.databox only works with SENAITE 2: senaite.databox/setup.py at master · senaite/senaite.databox · GitHub

Also, if you plan using this addon in production, beware that Databox is a quick solution for the lab and comes with some caveats. You may consider other exporting solutions that I will list at the end.

Some caveats of databox are:

  • It is a flexible tool, but the queries are done against SENAITE’s default catalogs. This may slow down the system for other users when querying for thousands of results.

  • Sometimes you have to get the full Python object, this is a resource consuming action and may affect the performance for big and complex queries

  • It is not a relatively new addon and it is not heavily tested, you may expect some bugs, but they do not affect the core system.

  • Because of these downsides, only the admin user can run queries

You have the following options to export results: