CumulusUtils: Difference between revisions

== Goals ==

The goal of ''CumulusUtils'' (abbr: Cutils) is to facilitate website creation for users of CumulusMX without exposure to coding in e.g. PHP or javascript. Having a meteo-website should not be privileged to users with great IT-skills. Making charts should not be demanding for programming skills in SQL or making it otherwise impossible to create charts without diving deep into the technique involved in CumulusMX (which actually is also the case with SQL).

 

#In case of problems there exists a [[Cumulusutils logfile]]. In case of problems you can check for yourself or ask on the forum with the log file as attachment. All logfiles are to be found in the directory utils/utilslog/ - which is automatically created if it does not exist - and they will have the name: ''yyMMddHHmmcumulusutils.log'' which sorts easily alphabetically. So that would be e.g. 2005271332cumulusutils.log. This gives the possibility to run CumulusUtils many times per day and if you find a problem later in one of the major runs at midnight, you still have that log. Logs will be kept for 2 days, giving you enough time to save the log you want to save. Errorlogging is governed by two inifile parameters: ''NormalMessageToConsole'' and ''TraceInfoLevel''. See the page on [[Cumulusutils.ini|''cumulusutils.ini'']].

#Development of CumulusUtils started in 9^th of August 2019 with an initial commit of the Top10 written in C. Development changed rapidly to C# with an initial commit of Top10 on November 19 2019 of version 0.7.0. The rest of the history can be read in the [[Release Notes|release notes]].

 

'''NOTE''': comments to this series of articles is welcome either by using the Talk feature of the Wiki for that page, direct edit of the article (request an account) or by contacting the author of CumulusUtils [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=9016 HansR] on the [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=44 forum] or through PM.