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+# Minimal makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+SPHINXOPTS    =
+SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+SPHINXPROJ    = DMUserGuide
+SOURCEDIR     = source
+BUILDDIR      = build
+
+# Put it first so that "make" without argument is like "make help".
+help:
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M help "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
+
+.PHONY: help Makefile
+
+# Catch-all target: route all unknown targets to Sphinx using the new
+# "make mode" option.  $(O) is meant as a shortcut for $(SPHINXOPTS).
+%: Makefile
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# APS Data Management documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Thu Feb 23 09:20:39 2017.
+#
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#
+# import os
+# import sys
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#
+# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+    'sphinx.ext.coverage',
+    'sphinx.ext.ifconfig',
+    'sphinx.ext.viewcode']
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
+# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
+#
+# source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = u'Users Guide - APS Data Management'
+copyright = u'2015-2019, Argonne National Laboratory'
+author = u'APS/SDM'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = "dev"
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = "dev"
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = None
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This patterns also effect to html_static_path and html_extra_path
+exclude_patterns = []
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
+todo_include_todos = False
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+#
+#html_theme = 'alabaster'
+html_theme = "sphinx_rtd_theme"
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#
+# html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+
+# -- Options for HTMLHelp output ------------------------------------------
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'APSDataManagementdoc'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+    #
+    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+    #
+    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+    #
+    # 'preamble': '',
+
+    # Latex figure (float) alignment
+    #
+    # 'figure_align': 'htbp',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'UsersGuide.tex', u'Users Guide - APS Data Management Documentation',
+     u'APS/SDM', 'manual'),
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    (master_doc, 'usersguide', u'APS Data Management Documentation',
+     [author], 1)
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'Users Guide', u'APS Data Management Documentation',
+     author, 'UsersGuide', 'One line description of project.',
+     'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+
+
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+dm-station-gui
+==============
+One of the methods to manage processes in the APS Data Management System is the 
+application **dm-station-gui**.  This application is a PyQt application which gives 
+access to add/modify/control items such as experiments, file transfer to storage
+location ('daq' and 'uploads'), workflows and processing jobs.  An example of 
+this application is shown in the figure below.
+
+.. image:: images/dm-station-gui-experiments.png
+    :scale: 50 %
+
+Experiments
+-----------
+**dm-station-gui** opens showing a tab that lists experiments which have been added 
+to the DM System.  At the beamline, these experiments generally will correspond
+to an accepted proposal in the APS Proposal system.  Experiments in the DM 
+System define an entity that ties sets of managed data together.  When an 
+experiment is selected by double clicking or by clicking and then clicking the
+*Use Selected* button, the contents of the Experiment tab changes to give 
+details about that experiment.  Much of this information is pulled from the 
+proposal/ESAF databases.  This is shown in the image below.
+
+.. image:: images/dm-station-gui-experiments-detail.png
+    :scale: 50 %
+
+This view of the data enable a couple of key features of the DM System.  The 
+ability to associate files with the Management system, and the ability to set 
+which users have access to the system and therefore which data they can access.
+Selecting users that will have access to experiment data is done by clicking the
+*Modify Users* button below the user list and then selecting users in the right 
+list & pressing the arrow button between the lists to add users or selecting
+users from the left list and clicking the arrow button to delete users from the
+list.  Click the _Save_ button at the bottom to accept the changes and go back 
+to the Experiment detail or click *Back* button in the upper left to exit back 
+to Experiment detail without saving.  This view is shown below.
+
+.. image:: images/dm-station-gui-experiments-user-management.png
+    :scale: 50 %
+
+Getting Files into Data Management
+----------------------------------
+The overall purpose of this system is to get data into the system and providing 
+access control to that data.  This means linking the data files to the users in
+an experiment.  For each beam station there is storage location defined for that 
+station.  On the **Experiments** tab there are a couple of items relevant to 
+getting the data onto that storage location.  These items are shown in the image
+below.  Files transferred onto the storage location will go into:
+*STORAGE_LOCATION/(storage_root_path)/(experiment_name)*.  Files to go into this 
+directory are specified in the entry "Data Directory or Single File Path".  Note
+that if the data directory is specified, only the files will go into the 
+storage location, not a new subdirectory with the transferred files.  Any 
+subdirectories will be copied as will the contents.
+
+Once the the storage location and source are defined the transfer can be started
+in one of two ways:
+- A monitor can be placed on the directory and any new files/subdirectories in the directory will be transferred if you select *Start DAQ*
+- A one time copy will happen and all files/subdirectories currently in the directry will be copied if you select *Start Upload*
+
+When a tranfer is started, the display will switch to either the **DAQs** or 
+**Uploads** tab.  The tab will show the status of all transfers that have been 
+started since the last restart of the system.  Status of a particular transfer is
+shown by color 
+- green: Done success
+- yellow: running
+- red: Done with an errors
+
+An example of this is shown below.
+
+.. image:: images/dm-station-gui-uploads.png
+    :scale: 50 %
+
+Clicking on a particular transfer, on **DAQs** or **Uploads** will switch the 
+view to show detail of that transfer including errors.  
+
+.. image:: images/dm-station-gui-uploads-detail.png
+    :scale: 50 %
+
+
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+.. User guide for the APS Data Management System
+Users Guide for the APS Data Management System
+==============================================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 4
+   :caption: contents
+   
+   dm-station-gui
+   
+Indices and tables
+==================
+
+* :ref:`genindex`
+* :ref:`modindex`
+* :ref:`search`
+   
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