## Assistance

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This page gathers a few sub-features which could not be classified elsewhere.

## "Help"

When one clicks on the "Help" link, the present main page of the user manual opens.

N. B.: the star with five spikes, always visible at the right of the window, an becomes less fuzzy when hovered by the mouse cursor, is the entry point to a contextual help; when one clicks this star, in the context of the page of the screenshot above... so, one can read this very line.

## "Save"

A backup of the database is recommenced each time when a consequent work is achieved, for example at the end of a day's work.

Currently, only the button "SQLite format" provides a reliable backup. One downloads a file named, for instance, `db.sqlite-2023-04-12_17-03-45.zip`, which is in ZIP format, and provides after decompression a file named `db.sqlite3` .his file contains all of the database; it allows an administrator with write permissions on the system supporting the service SLM, to restore its state exactly as it was at the backup's date.

So, with the file named `db.sqlite-2023-04-12_17-03-45.zip`, one can restore the state as it was on the 12th April 2023 at 17:03:45.

## "Maintenance"

Ordinary users of SLM, who are part of the team which can authentify, cannot make much with this feature; the maintenance of the database is only possible for users who have "super-user" permissions.

If you are an ordinary user of SLM, but that you know some mean to become "super-user", you logout from SLM, and then re-authentify with the accreditation (login name and password) of the super-user.

Here is the appearance of the screen when one has those permissions; then, one can maintain directly the database: arbitrarily delete data, add new ones, and so on.

Making a backup is highly recommended for the database before beginning any maintenance. Actions made by super-users are logged in the database, as long as they are using the maintenance system provided by Django, the framework which powers SLM.