gnue-forms1

Usage

Overview

GNUe Forms is the primary user interface to the GNU Enterprise system.

Options

GENERAL OPTIONS

--connections <loc>

Specifies the location of the connection definition file. <loc> may specify a file name (/usr/local/gnue/etc/connections.conf),or a URL location (http://localhost/connections.conf).If this option is not specified, the environent variable GNUE_CONNECTIONS is checked.If neither of them is set, "/home/reinhard/gnue/etc/connections.conf" is used as a default.

--debug-file <filename>

Sends all debugging messages to a specified file (e.g., "--debug-file trace.log" sends all output to "trace.log")

--debug-level <level>

Enables debugging messages. Argument specifies the level of messages to display (e.g., "--debug-level 5" displays all debugging messages at level 5 or below.)

--help

Displays this help screen.

--help-config

Displays a list of valid configuration file entries, their purpose, and their default values.

--help-connections

Display help information related to database connections, including a list of available drivers.

--help-dev

Display all options of interest to core developers.

--help-ui

Prints a list of user interfaces that forms supports.

--interface <ui>, -u

The name of the user interface to use to display your form. For a list of interfaces, use the --help-ui options.

--no-splash, -s

Disables the splash screen

--password <passwd>

Password used to log into the database. Note that if specified, this will be used for all databases. If not supplied, the program will prompt for password if needed. NOTE: SUPPLYING A PASSWORD VIA THE COMMAND LINE MAY BE CONSIDERED A SECURITY RISK AND IS NOT RECOMMENDED.

--silent

Displays no output at all.

--username <name>

Username used to log into the database. Note that if specified, this will be used for all databases. If not supplied, the program will prompt for username.

--version

Displays the version information for this program.

DEVELOPER OPTIONS

--interactive-debugger

Run the app inside Python's built-in debugger

--profile

Run Python's built-in profiler and display the resulting run statistics.

--selfdoc <type[,subtype]>

Generates self-documentation.

--selfdoc-file <filename>

Specifies the filename that selfdoc should write to. If not provided,
output is sent to stdout.

--selfdoc-format <format>

Format to output the self-documentation in. Supported formats are dependent on the type of selfdoc being created.

--selfdoc-options <options>

Options specific to individual selfdoc types.