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Gandhi Lab Animal Management System

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GLAMS

Title:

GLAMS (Gandhi Lab Animal Management System)

Author:

Kyle Ellefsen

Date:

2013.9.7

Description:

This program creates a MySQL database containing mouse colony information. It also contains a web server which, when launched, allows users to retrieve and update information on the database.

INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS

  1. Install MySQL (for windows.)

    • Install the Developer version.

    • Choose Sever Machine when prompted for ‘server configuration type’.

    • Choose Enable TCP/IP Networking if you would like to access GLAMS from other computers.

    • Leave the port number as the default 3306.

    • Keep Open firewall port for network access checked.

    • Use your lab password as the MySQL Root Password.

    • Add a user.

    • Set ‘host’ to be <All Hosts (%)>.

    • Set ‘Role’ as DB Admin.

    • Leave authentication as MySQL. This user account will be in GLAMS to communicate with MySQL, and it will be saved as plaintext, so make sure it is a password you don’t use for anything else. Remember it for a later step.

    • Run Windows Service as a Standard System Account. This automatically starts MySQL on Windows startup.

    • After the install, create a new database (aka schema) called glams. (instructions at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5515745/create-a-new-database-with-mysql-workbench)

  2. Install the latest version of Python 2 (2.7.6. as of 2013.12.17)

  3. Install pip (instructions at pip-installer.org.)

  4. Install lxml.

    • Download lxml-3.2.4.win32-py2.7.exe and install.

  5. Install GLAMS. In a command line, change directory to where pip.py is installed. In Windows this is usually ‘C:/Python27/Scripts/’. Then type:

    pip install glams
  6. In a command line, change directory to where glams is installed (in windows: C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\glams\). Run the script:

    setup_glams.py

    (you can also double click on the icon) and answer the questions when prompted. This script will create a config.txt file which will save your password as plaintext, so don’t use the lab password. The script will also reset the database.

  7. Launch the GLAMS server by running:

    main.py

    in the glams directory. Open a browser, and navigate to localhost. GLAMS has been installed. Login with username=’admin’ and password=’password’.

TODO

  • Save the column order when a user moves a column.

  • Add column for filtering ‘projected age at date’.

  • Be able to select cage in ‘history’.

  • Do sorting in the backend, not in javascript.

BUGS

  • If viewing on the chrome web browser which has the google docs app installed, you can’t view mouse or cage information. This might be a chrome bug.

  • When switching to cage view if no columns are selected there is an error.

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