#Project overview
This is a web app that allows corporate employeees to schedule vacations with a single click.
- Flask, a python web microframework
- The SQLAlchemy ORM, with it's flask extension, for the database backend
- WTForms, with it's flask extension, for HTML form handling
models.py holds all model (data) related code.
views.py contains the URL handlers (entry points)
configuration.py contains the application configuration.
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI is the URI for the database. This is handled by SQLAlchemy, and can use many different DB engines (SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)
DEBUG controls whether the application is in debug mode, which will catch exceptions and allow interactive debugging in the browser, amongst other things.
SECRET_KEY is a random string that should be changed for each installation.
FORBID_MODIFY_PAST prevents users from modifying past vacations. A "feature" for distrustful management
FORBID_MODIFY_PAST_YEAR prevents users from modifying vacations from any other year than the current one. This MUST be enabled on the current codebase, otherwise the database will become consistent and must be fixed manually
Documentation on deployment and administration (and possibly others) is available in the doc directory