EmpDat

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Employee Database Application for CS 2450-001 Fall 2020.

• Kevin Thorne
• Tanner Olsen
• Kim Soto
• Luke Barrett
• Caleb Probst
• Colton Robbins
• Joshua Ley

Licenses and attributions attached in the LICENSES.txt and under Help>About in the application

Installing

EmpDat was designed with Windows users in mind. However, EmpDat can be run on any operating system Python is supported on.

The easy way

Windows:

1. Unzip the Portable.win.zip to a location of choice.
2. Run EmpDat.exe
3. Done!

The harder way: from included environment

Most of the steps require a terminal window.

1. Acquire the source with dependencies from the deployment ZIP archive
   • src_w_deps.zip
2. Ensure Python 3 (version 3.6 minimum) is installed.
3. Activate the virtual environment by running:
   • .\venv\Scripts\activate.bat
4. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Run python EmpDat.py

The hard way: from scratch

Most of the steps require a terminal window.

1. Acquire the source from the deployment ZIP archive
   • src.zip
2. Ensure Python 3 (version 3.6 minimum) is installed.
3. Install dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
4. Run python3 EmpDat.py

First Run

1. Login as the super-admin:
   • Employee ID: -1
   • Password: Ineed2changemypassword!
2. On the top bar, click File > Change Password and change the super-admin's password to preference
3. If desired, import previous database of employees
   • On the top bar, click Import > Employees and locate the previous CSV database
   • Note: the database can be converted back into a CSV using the Employee Directory Report
4. Consult the User Manual for performing other operations

Development

Environment Setup

A virtual environment (a shadow copy of an already installed Python) is recommended Python

1. In the folder of choice: git clone https://github.com/UVU-CS2450-001-Fall2020-Team2/EmpDat.git
2. Run python3 -m venv venv/
3. Activate the virtual environment
   • Windows: venv/Scripts/activate.bat
   • Linux/Unix/Mac: source venv/bin/activate
4. Install dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
5. Run python EmpDat.py

Any time anything needs to be ran or installed within the application, activate the virtual environment using Step 3 above. Deactivation can be done with the command deactivate.