Setting up openMRS!

Posted on February 25, 2014 by tbruce731

Setting up openMRS was not to difficult. I first attempted to use the Windows Installer to install openMRS … and failed. I then continued to read more of the documentation on OpenMRS and installed it by obtaining maven and mysql then using the pom.xml files to build and get a running instance of openMRS. I have experience using maven in the past so overall the setup and installation of openMRS was quite easy

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Week 4

Posted on February 25, 2014 by juwee05

We didn’t meet this week due to the president day holiday. However, we were still working on assignments from the previous week and doing the set of the development environment on our systems. There  were a few problems going through the set up process because the instructions wasn’t too clear to follow. At some point, we had to install git hub first before installing the OpenMRS but the instructions did go into detail about that. The is still a few issues but we still doing the installations.

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Week 4: 17 February 2014

Posted on February 25, 2014 by slykrysis

[OpenMRS Developers Setup]

From the get go I was having installation troubles for the SDK. I followed the instructions located here: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+SDK#OpenMRSSDK-StepByStep

I first tried to get it successfully installed on my laptop to no avail. I installed Java 1.7.0.51 JDK fine along with the JRE. I installed the OpenMRS installer for Windows version 1.0.6 fine. Below is the code snippet from my cmd window:

C:\Users\Jesse\Desktop\OMRS>omrs-version

OMRS Version: “1.0.5″
OMRS Home: C:\Program Files (x86)\omrssdk-1.0.6
ORMS Scripts: C:\Program Files (x86)\omrssdk-1.0.6\bin
OMRS Maven Home: C:\Program Files (x86)\omrssdk-1.0.6\apache-maven
——–
Executing: “C:\Program Files (x86)\omrssdk-1.0.6\apache-maven\bin\mvn.bat” –ver
sion
Apache Maven 3.1.0 (893ca28a1da9d5f51ac03827af98bb730128f9f2; 2013-06-27 22:15:3
2-0400)
Maven home: C:\Program Files (x86)\omrssdk-1.0.6\apache-maven\bin\..
Java version: 1.7.0_51, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_51\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: “windows 8″, version: “6.2″, arch: “x86″, family: “windows”
C:\Users\Jesse\Desktop\OMRS>

 

After I knew I had the correct JDK and OMRS version installed correctly, I tried to create the module. It went through its downloads of files and came up with no errors after I left all default values. No matter what I tried at this point, I could not get the command “omrs-run” to see the configuration. I was sure I forked the correct project to GitHub correctly and I verified with other students but we could not figure out why it was not working.

Duplicating the whole process again on my desktop yielded the same results. I will have to investigate further as to why the module/configuration is not being seen and update upon further info.

 

Sources:

https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+SDK#OpenMRSSDK-StepByStep

https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Using+Git#UsingGit-InstallGitonyourcomputer

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Week 3: 10 February 2014

Posted on February 24, 2014 by slykrysis

[Wiki Editing]

This week’s learning on editing the Wiki page was actually very helpful and easy to pick up on. I can see why wikis are being more and more common for compiling information or for use as knowledge bases. I began by going to to the CS wiki and logging into my account. I wrote a brief description about me and then added a link to this page under the Students page. Editing in a wiki was incredibly easy to do and straight forward and I had no problem with it.

The Issue Tracker Activity was also very informative on how to use formatting and editing for a wiki. As I proceeded through the activity, I learned from the few mistakes I made in formatting so my responses were easier to read, but in the end I got the hang of it.

 

[Issue Tracker Activity/Three Issues]

Viewing the info on the OpenMRS Issue Tracker was also sorted out very well and made it easy to read and follow how tickets and bugs were logged. The filters make sense on how one would want to search for a particular type of issue. I was able to easily find all of the necessary field and type information, but I did have trouble at first finding the summary of the project. I was looking for a description or paragraph summary but did not realize it was right on the front page shown with data.

After perusing the list on all the tickets at a glance, I ended up choosing three according to my comfort level (programming level as well as overall knowledge of the project so far). I couldn’t think of any other ways the system might have been improved upon, but there certainly are ways. To me as an outsider to the core of the project, it seemed to suffice very well for giving someone cursory information.

 

[Git Videos and Tutorials]

Following the Git tutorial was very useful and gave me a tool that I can come back to in case I need to remember certain commands without having to look them up without example uses. I  completed it after about 10-15 minutes, but I still had some general confusion about what the syntax for some of the commands were (I do not feel at all comfortable operating in a Linux/Unix environment, even after my classes here at WSU). As they came up in the example terminal, I did somewhat look up what they meant but did not come up with anything really concrete as a definition or further examples of how to use them.

The Git videos were also a good reference to go alongside with while watching on my desktop and following along on my laptop. I have never used GitHub before this class (unfortunate we are learning it so late) so a further explanation with maps and diagrams was helpful. One thing I did notice though was that even though these were tutorial videos on using Git and what it is, it still was not as detailed as I would have wanted it to be for some areas.

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Week 2 readign assignment

Posted on February 24, 2014 by emtrieu

OPenMRS is very helpfully. specially, it is very good for who start to do the software development, and it good for who want to share their experience or exchange their knowledge about software.

There are a lot of thing you can gain from OpenMRS:

1.Understand how the OpenMRS community interacts and communicates. 

2. Have a development environment setup

3. Understand the basic of the OpenMRS system

4..Be able to troubleshoot OpenMRS with the resource in the  community

5..Know where to go to get your started with  your fist contributions to the community

 

 

 

 

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Week 3

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Renowneddragoon

Editing a wiki is easy I tend to edit gaming wikis. The issue tracker was odd to run thought at first as things a old a a few months could quickly pop up on you as well as not knowing if the issue is truly an issue anymore or was forgotten when finished.

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OpenMRS Set Up

Posted on February 24, 2014 by natyzelaya

Setting up the system has been difficult. My laptop is running Windows 8.1, so that’s the first challenge I have.

First, when I tried to check which version of java I had installed, I got this output: “ ‘javac’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file”. So, I decided to check: Program > Java > About > Version 7 (1.7.0-b147). The Developers Guide instructs to check the version as follow “javac –version” on the command line, but instead I entered “java -version” and it worked!

Then, I got stuck in the installation step. I downloaded and run the OpenMRS SDK installer. The wizard setup was completed without outputting any error. Once again, in order to get the output in the console I had to change “omrs-version” to uppercase, “OMRS-version”, otherwise the result would not have succeeded.

This time, the prompt line gave me an error: “JAVA_HOME not found in your environment. Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the location of your Java installation”

If you are running into the same problem, here is the solution:

  1. Locate the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Installation Directory
    1.  If you didn’t change the installation path for the Java Runtime Environment during installation, it will be in a directory under C:\Program Files\Java. Using Explorer, open the directory C:\Program Files\Java.
    2.  Inside that path will be one or more subdirectories such as C:\Program          Files\Java\jre7
  2. Set the JAVA_HOME Variable
    1. Right-click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Properties.
    2. Click the Advanced tab.
    3. Click the Environment Variables button.
      1. Under System Variables, click New.
      2. Enter the variable name as JAVA_HOME.
      3. Enter the variable value as the installation path for the Java Development Kit. (e.g.C:\Program Files\Java\jre7)
    4. Click OK.
    5. Click Apply Changes.

Close any command window which was open before you made these changes, and open a new command window. If the changes do not take effect even after reopening the command window, restart Windows.

After fixing the JAVA_HOME, I checked if the SDK is working properly. The console output looks similar as the one on the Developers Guide.

Now the last step, running OpenMRS locally, it starts to create the directory, but nothing happens. It never launches the web server to be tested. If I click the link, the web page loads blank. I’m still trying to figure out what I missed!

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