Troggle programmers guide - beginnings

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<h1>Troggle - Maintenance Manuals</h1>
<p>Troggle is the software which runs the the expo cave survey data management and website.
<p>If you are looking for how to manage or correct cave survey data then this is not the right place. You want the
<a href="../computing/manual.html"><em>Data</em> Maintenance</a> manual.
<p>This part of the handbook is intended for people maintaining the troggle software:
<p>This part of the handbook is intended for people maintaining the troggle <em>software</em>:
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1155986.The_Tricky_Troggle">
<img border="1" class="onright" width="150px" src='tricky-troggle.jpg' alt='git logo'/></a>
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<li><a href="trogdjango.html">Troggle and django</a> - Upgrading to later django versions
<li><a href="trognotes.html">Uncategorised notes</a> and past speculations
<li><a href="trognotes.html">Programmers' guide</a> - and index to other documentation
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<p>Troggle is completely unlike any other django installation: it has a database, but the database is rebuilt from files every time it starts.
<p>Most of the data entry into troggle happens during or just after the expedition.
<p>Most of the data entry into troggle happens during or just after the expedition: i.e. once a year.
<h4>Advanced Users' Manual</h4>
<p>We don't have one of these. You may find what you are looking for in <a href="scriptsother.html">Other scripts</a> above. But there are a few things which are not really 'maintenance' and are not really cave data management either, e.g.
<ul>
<li><a href="exportjson.html">JSON export</a> - how to extract cave and expo data in JSON format.
<li><a href="exporttgz.html">Compressed data export</a> - how to extract cave and expo data in gzip/tar format.
</ul>
but do scan
><p>but do also scan
<ul>
<li><a href="trogindex.html">Index of all troggle documents</a> - list of everything you can do with troggle.
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