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Our IT department has a new leadership and is restrucuturing. This brings with it a  new division of labout between IT and CODIS, focusing on hardware, softweare, connectivity and content  and information management respectively.

This is a good thing, also because it means better Informatio Management governance, better defined roles rules and procudeures, as well as more resources for web development overall,

The downside is that we are introducing further dependencies to the project. ITU will have to approve the strategic alignment of the CMS with ICARDA’s rapidly evolving Enterprise Information Archiecture. This is likely to push the launch date further back, into 2011.

To kick-off the process of collaboration we are presenting the project to ITU, The Presentation
and the Minutes of meeting are available.

A seemingly small but hard-won insight:

When adding news issues to be tracked, it is important ot enable the comments (read/write). Otherwise  the issue update form remains inacessible and it is impossible to change the status of issues, i.e from ‘active’ to ‘fixed’.

1. Create a new database on the server
2. Take note of username and password
3. Export local DB to .sql file
4. Import .sgl file into new DB
5. Create .zip file of everything in drupal
6. Unzip to root folder on the server
7. Edit setting.php like this:

Look for the DB string in settings.php, it will be in colour. All the other text is greyed out. It will look something like this:

$db_url = ‘mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename’;

Replace username and password
Depending on your server it could also be

$db_url = ‘mysqli: …
 

There is also the Backup and Migrate module doing it smartly.

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