Basic Tutorial

Introduction

The aim of this tutorial is to describe the functionality of OpenPetra at its current state. You will learn what you can do with OpenPetra, and how to do it.

There is a demo database available that will provide the examples for this tutorial.

Installation

Currently, only the Standalone version is available for quick installation on Windows. You just download it from Sourceforge via the link from the OpenPetra website.

You will need Administrator permissions to be able to install OpenPetra on your workstation.

The Standalone version of OpenPetra uses the light-weight database SQLite, which does not need to be installed separately. Please note that for bigger databases SQLite will become quite slow, and at that stage you might want to work with a proper database system. You can either install your own OpenPetra server running on Windows or Linux using a free database system, eg. MySQL or PostgreSQL. Alternatively, there will soon be a hosted service provided by some developers of OpenPetra, and for a small monthly fee you can benefit from a centrally hosted version of OpenPetra. More on this will follow soon...