Newbie Lessons Learned

As a new user of this toolset, it took me many hours to get from working demos to my own applications. I thought I might be able to save others some time by recounting some key lessons learned that too a while for me to debug as a ‘newbie’.

(1) require_once in the configuration files must be in the full server path notation as you would get from getcwd();

(2) as they say, be careful of blank lines in certain configuration files. I kept getting data blazed to screen rather than being loaded and this was the issue.

(3) unfortunately, the order that you load some of the .js and .css files can matter, especially if you have upgraded to the pro version. Pro versions last.

(4) the demos that download with the installation files are missing some databases (e.g., grid50) that some of the demos require.

(5) I had to build a database from scratch using CPanel tools (for my system) in order to successfully hook up connectors and data processors. My CPanel tools also allow importing or exporting .csv, .xls, xlsx types of files.

Hope these lessons learned will save others time.