Collection Manager (collmgr)

collmgr is a new program whose main function is to manage information in the collection and group databases. This information is that which had been kept in the groups and colldb tab-delimeted files prior to the CDROM #8 release of DLXS. Using collmgr, you can maintain this information in either a CSV database or a MySQL database.

• collmgr running under CSV
  
  • CSV files are actual text files, but interface lets them behave as a database (It is important not to hand edit the text files outside of collmgr)
  • need to reside on the same machine as the middleware
    
• collmgr running under MySQL
  • must install and maintain a MySQL database
  • can be a networked database
• Workshop Note: workshop setup vs. our DLPS development setup (this will make more sense after seeing how collmgr interacts with the Middleware and after working through the installation process)
  • workshop is in a production rather than a development environment (no DLPS_DEV set)
  • no user rows, only release and production rows; therefore, no checkin checkout
  • 'release to production' option always visible

Link to details on the use of collmgr