❓ FAQ

Why does a button sometimes say "no connection to the workstation"? Functions that write to the database need the machine it lives on to be powered on. Read-only pages always work.

I changed something and regret it. ↩︎ Undo in the editors that have it (a connector import, for example — see below). For everything else, every operation takes a snapshot beforehand or is journaled: an archive batch is reverted from the command line with scripts/journal.py revert <op_run>, and a database snapshot is restored with scripts/dbsafe.py restore … --latest. Nothing is lost either way — see Curating your archive.

Can I get in from outside the house? Yes, over VPN. Everything works exactly as it does at home.

Are the numbers on the home screen up to date? They refresh themselves via scheduled tasks; each page's footer shows when it was last updated.

What if the browser shows something stale? The server forces revalidation (no-cache): just reload.

What's a connector, and is it safe to install one? A connector is a Store module that reads a file you drop (a bank export, say) and writes it into the database — but it never sends SQL itself, and it can only touch the tables its manifest declares. See The Store.