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* [[DataSets: Ensuring you deliver 'unchanged' data to the Client]] | * [[DataSets: Ensuring you deliver 'unchanged' data to the Client]] | ||
Revision as of 07:38, 17 March 2015
Projects
Please read about what needs to be done, and how to take charge of a project here:
Summary of Projects
Development
Development Environment
- Quick Setup of Development environment
- Setup of Development environment
- OpenPetra Developer's Assistant
Programming
General
- Coding Standard and Guidelines
- Error and Exception Handling Policy
- Explanation of Directory Structure and Rules
Development
- Useful hints regarding coding in CSharp/.net
- Development with Code Generation
- Build system with our own NAnt tools and tasks
- Preventing/getting around circular dependency problems
- Using OpenPetra's DataAccess Objects
- DB Access Exception Handling
- Automatic DB Transaction Handling
- Co-ordinated DB Access (Thread-safe DB Access)
- Specifying 'standard' / 'default' / 'base' data for DB Tables
- DataSets: Ensuring you deliver 'unchanged' data to the Client
Other Topics
Development Cycle
- Build System for OpenPetra
- Releases and Patching
- Building and maintaining customized versions of OpenPetra
- Migrating data from legacy systems
- Working with NUnit tests
Getting Started
- HowTo develop a new screen
- HowTo port a screen from Old Petra
- HowTo develop a new report
- Report Designer
Tools Used
This is a list of software that we use; some of it you will already have installed when you did your Setup of Development environment.
Tips and Tricks
- Quicker development/debugging/testing turnaround with customised PetraClient startup
- Specifying custom settings in Config Files for Development
- Literature
- Programming hints
- Retrieving the 'SiteKey' of an OpenPetra installation
- Homepage
OpenPetra Software Architecture
- Overview openPETRA architecture
- Taken from the old Petra wiki. Should be merged with the other articles!
- n-tier architecture
- Database access architecture
- openPETRA Architecture Team
Client Side
- GUI development
- Printing
- Main Menu
- Singleton (single-instance) Screens
- Specific Screens
Bug Tracking
See Tracking of Bugs
Database Structure Documentation
We have DB model documentation online available in two formats, both of which are auto-generated with each release:
- Our own format (see also SQL Diagram creation)
- There is a diagram for the Accounts Payable sub system
- We need volunteers do design more diagrams! Please also have a look at the old 2.1 diagrams (download 9 png files in a zip file).
- There is a diagram for the Accounts Payable sub system
- SchemaSpy format
- features quite nice automatically drawn relationship diagrams once you select a certain DB table. That can also be shown for the whole DB if you simply go to the ‘Relationships’ Tab on the index page (though that diagram is HUGE as the OpenPetra DB currently holds >300 DB Tables!).
OpenPetra Specifications & Requirements
Please have a look at the specifications and add your own requirements in the appropriate sections (eg. Wishlist):
Specifications and Requirements
Project Infrastructure
- Have a look at wordpress. The OpenPetra Website is running on Wordpress.
- Continuous integration with Jenkins CI Server