Instructions Part 1

Set-up of the SRP instance on your local machine (for training purposes only)

  1. Install Zope 2.9.3 on your local computer (Windows or Linux)
  2. Make a Zope instance (type python mkzopeinstance in the bin folder of the Zope programme directory). You are advised to create an instance called srp in your home folder ('My Files' on Windows) not in the Zope programme directory.
  3. Download CPS 3.4.0-1 or the following release candidate: http://www.cps-project.org/static/src/CPS-3.4.1-rc.tar.gz and unpack the files into the Products folder of your Zope instance created in 1.
  4. Checkout the WAeUP_SRP product from our svn: https://svn.waeup.org/repos/WAeUP_SRP/trunk. You can use TortoiseSVN on Windows or type svn co https://svn.waeup.org/repos/WAeUP_SRP/trunk WAeUP_SRP on Linux. You'll need your WAeUP user name and password for the checkout. The files should be copied into a folder called WAeUP_SRP inside of the Products folder of your Zope instance.
  5. Copy the Uniben csv data files into the import folder of your Zope instance. The csv files are attached to this email.
  6. Start Zope from the bin folder of your Zope instance with ./zopectl start (background) or ./runzope (foreground) on Linux or runzope on Windows. You can also start a Windows Service which runs in the background. For the latter you can use the following commands:
python zopeservice.py install
python zopeservice.py start
python zopeservice.py stop
python zopeservice.py remove
  1. Open your browser and enter http://localhost:8080/manage. After entering your user name and password (defined in 2) the ZMI shows up.
  2. Choose CPSDefault Site (nothing else!) in the pull-down menu and add.
  3. Fill the fields as follows:
Site ID: srp
Site Title: Student Registration Portal
Administrator Login: your Zope instance user name
Password: your Zope instance password
Extensions: WAeUP_SRP only
Site Languages: English only
  1. Add the site
  2. Open a second browser window and enter http://localhost:8080/srp and you will see the frontpage of the portal.
  3. Login with your user name and password
  4. Goto Academics
  5. Import the Uniben data in the following order: Faculties (30 sec), Departments (1 min), Courses (15 min), Certificates (15 min), CertCourses (20 min). Be patient and wait.
  6. Ready