Configuration

Author:Étienne Loks date:2012-10-08 Copyright:CC-BY 3.0

This documents presents the first steps to configure your Chimère.

The version has been updated for version 2.0.0.

If an usage to the CLI is required, your session has to be initialised with theses environment variables:

CHIMERE_PATH=/srv/chimere # change with your installation path
CHIMERE_LOCALNAME=mychimere # change with your local project name
CHIMERE_APP_PATH=$CHIMERE_PATH/$CHIMERE_LOCALNAME

When you have installed the application there is a few simple steps to follow to configure your Chimère.

Most of theses steps are done in the web administration pages.

If you are not familiar with Django-like administration pages you can look at the first paragraph of Administration where it is presented.

To access theses pages you have to identify you with an account with staff and superuser status.

A superuser account is created at the initialization of the database. You can create a new superuser account in the web interface (see the account management section) or with the CLI:

./manage.py createsuperuser

Creating areas

You probably want to define at least one default area. The configuration of this area allow you to define the default zoom, welcome message, etc. of your Chimère.

Creating users

If you are not the only administrator of this Chimère installation you have to create account for the other users. Currently the process has to be done manualy.

Simply click on the Add button near Users. Give a name and a default password (the user can change it on in own later). Then complete the other pieces of information. Check the case: Member of the staff (or this user will not be able to log to this administration site). To simply give this user correct rights don’t add permission manualy but make this user member of a group. Two default group are proposed: application administrator and moderator.

Detail of rights for default user/groups:

Task	Application owner	Application administrator	Moderator
User add/modify/delete	yes	no	no
Group add/modify/delete	yes	no	no
Property model add/modify/delete	yes	no	no
Import add/modify/delete	yes	no	no
Layer add/modify/delete	yes	no	no
News add/modify/delete	yes	yes	no
Area add/modify/delete	yes	yes	no
Icon add/modify/delete	yes	yes	no
Color/Color theme add/modify/delete	yes	yes	no
Category/Subcategory add/modify/delete	yes	yes	no
Point Of Interest add/modify/delete	yes	yes	yes
Route add/modify/delete	yes	yes	yes

Creating property models

A basic installation of Chimère only permit to associate a name, a category, a description and (for the point of interest) multimedia files for each point of interest and each route. You may want to add more fields like phone number or opening hours. For that all you have to do is to add a new property model. The administration ask you for name, order (to order between other properties), availability for the user and type (only text field and long text field are available for the moment). Then to make this property available it is necessary to restart your application (and then probably to reload Apache). All forms are then automatically updated with this new field.