[Dart] [Newbie] Building the HTML reports on the Dart server.

[Blezek, Daniel J (GE, Research)]

Hi Eric,

  Welcome to Dart!  Sorry that your initial experience wasn't positive, and it's our fault.  You are looking at the pages for Dart "Classic" which is no longer maintained.  More recently, we've completely re-written the code and put a nice manual together.  While you are welcome to use the old Dart code, I would suggest you have a go with the new Dart.

Here is the home page:  http://na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Dart2Summary

Please let me know if you have any issues with Dart (the new Dart that is).
-dan

-----Original Message-----
From: dart-bounces+blezek=crd.ge.com at public.kitware.com
[mailto:dart-bounces+blezek=crd.ge.com at public.kitware.com]On Behalf Of
Eric BOIX
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:25 AM
To: dart at public.kitware.com
Subject: [Dart] [Newbie] Building the HTML reports on the Dart server.


        Dear Dart users,

As newbie, I'm trying to configure a Dart server. I use the README.INSTALL
as found on the cvs server of Dart [ since it seems more recent than the web
install page i.e. http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Install.shtml ] as
walkthrough and I'm stuck on step 5) of the "Configuring the Dart server"
section i.e. the one that reads:

  5) A series of cron jobs control the opening and closing of dashboards
     and periodically converting the XML submissions into HTML reports.
     [ ... ]

The commands used within the given crontab entries go:
    cd /insight/TestingTree/Insight-TestingResults;  \
    make NightlyDashboardStart ;                     \
    ./myconfig > /dev/null;                          \
    make NightlyDashboardEnd
and I expected this to build my HTML reports...

Here are a few questions:
 - Am I missing some key piece of documentation ?
     [ is there a Wiki for Dart somewhere ? ]
 - do I first need to set up the DartConfig.cmake ? If yes, with
   what information ?
     [ I probably don't need to specify a DROP_SITE and a TRIGGER_SITE since
       I'm only concerned with running some Java scripts localy. Still I expect
       to specify in some way the location of the XML submissions !  Maybe I
       should also state were to put the the generated HTML reports ?!]
 - how come the NightlyDashboardStart doesn't seem to exist as a make
   target of the build tree ?
     [ I don't seem to be the first one to hit this snag: refer to
       http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/dart/2004-September/000950.html ]
 - are there some "ctest -D <something>" shortcuts for this task on the
   server side ?

My Dart low mileage really drove me off the road... :-)

        Thanks,
        Eric Boix.

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