icemac.addressbook 1.10.4

Multi user address book application

General

• multi-client capability
• user and role management
• Completely translated into German, and easily translateable into other languages.
• Optimized for the following browsers: Firefox, Safari. IE works but might look ugly. (Mobile version of Safari has some glitches.)

Data

• store data of persons including postal address, e-mail address, home page address, phone number and files
• add data fields to persons and addresses using the user interface
• ability to change the oder of the fields of persons and adresses
• assign keywords to persons
• import data from XLS (Excel) or CSV files

Search & Export

• search for persons by keywords and names
• export persons found using a search as XLS file
• update a single field of multiple persons as returned by a search (multi-update)

Technical

• really good test coverage of program code (> 98 %)
• data storage is an object database (ZODB) so no additional database is required

Prerequisites

• You only need Python 2.6.x.
  • Other Python versions are currently not supported.
  • For a smooth installation ensure your Python installation is clean by
    • either compiling your own Python 2.6.x from the source code
    • or by installing a virtualenv.

There are two variants for installation:

• Package installation (to be preferred)
• Source installation (for development)

Package installation

Follow these steps if you want to install the pre-packaged address book (preferred way):

Source installation

1. Get the source code:

   $ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/icemac/icemac.addressbook
   

2. Install the sources:

   $ cd icemac.addressbook
   $ printf "[buildout]\nextends = profiles/%s\n" dev.cfg > buildout.cfg
   $ python2.6 bootstrap.py
   $ bin/buildout
   

Run the tests

Running the tests is independent from your choosen installation kind.

Run the unit tests and functional tests using:

$ bin/test

To run the Selenium tests you additionally need: a running Selenium Server. Download "Selenium Server" from SeleniumHQ. Start it like any other jar package is started on your operating system. Run all tests using:

$ bin/test --all

Run the application

Running the application is independent from your choosen installation kind.

To run the application instance in foreground start using:

$ bin/addressbook fg

To run it as a demon process start using:

$ bin/addressbook start

To stop the demon process call:

$ bin/addressbook stop

The default URL is to access the application is:

http://127.0.0.1:8080

To log-in at this URL you need a username and password.

• If you installed via package installation you had to chose them when running install.py. They are stored in admin.zcml.
• If you installed the sources you find username and password in dev_admin_user.zcml.

Create a new address book using the add address book link on the right. How to create new users inside this address book is described in Create new users.

Change configuration of the installation

This section is only valid if you chose package installation.

The values you entered during installation resp. update are stored in a file named install.user.ini in the address book directory.

To change the configuration values call install.py using python and enter a . as parameter like this:

$ python2.6 install.py .

The configuration questions get presented to you with your previously entered values as default.

To remove additional packages you have to edit the [package] section of install.user.ini. There is currently no other way for removal.

To remove the user name which should own the process you have to edit the [server] section of install.user.ini. Remove the value from the user line.

Roles

Access to the address book is only granted after authentication. There are three roles to authorize a user:

• visitor: visit all person's data, search and export, change own password
• editor: permissions of visitor + edit all person's data, change own log-in name
• administrator: permissions of editor + create and change address book and users

Create new users

Users are persons from the address book augmented by log-in information.

To create the first new user inside an address book the adminstrator (who was created in First installation) has to log-in and then do the following:

1. create a new person with an e-mail address using Add person.
2. create a new user using Master data --> Users --> Add user.

The newly created user has now a log-in (e-mail address) for the address book the person belonges to.

Next major version

• Probably: Full text search.

Longer term

The following features might be implemented over the next months:

• person data
  • store picture per person
• company as entity
• import
  • vCard
  • SQLite (Apple's Addressbook.app)
• export
  • custom XLS export
  • LDAP export
• more search abilities
  • full text search
  • combined search
  • wildcard search

1.10.4 (2013-07-30)

• Fix 1.10.3 brown bag release missing again some text files so failing to install.

1.10.3 (2013-07-30)

• Fix 1.10.2 brown bag release missing some text files so failing to install.

1.10.2 (2013-07-06)

• Update to zc.buildout 1.7.1.
• Downgrade bootstrap.py to the version of zc.buildout 1.7.1 so initial bootstrap does not fail. This problem was introduced in version 1.10.1.

1.10.1 (2013-06-25)

• Update bootstrap.py to current version so updating an older instance does not fail.

1.10.0 (2013-06-21)

1.9.0 (2012-12-29)

1.8.1 (2012-04-20)

1.8.0 (2011-12-14)

Previous Versions

See OLD_CHANGES.rst inside the package.