Creating a Project - Creating work

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This is the next hardest part after making the programs. Making work.

Let's create a Work Unit for upper_case, the test program we will use for this project.

NOTE: If you haven't added any applications, see Creating a Project - Adding applications now!

Create the file

$PROJECTROOT/download/in

which should contain the text

This is a test

and the file

$PROJECTROOT/templates/upper_case_wu

with the following text

<file_info>
  <number>0</number>
</file_info>
<workunit>
  <file_ref>
    <file_number>0</file_number>
    <open_name>in</open_name>
  </file_ref>
  <min_quorum>1</min_quorum>
  <target_nresults>1</target_nresults>
</workunit>

and finally the file

$PROJECTROOT/templates/upper_case_result

with the following text

<file_info>
  <name><OUTFILE_0/></name>
  <generated_locally/>
  <upload_when_present/>
  <max_nbytes>10000</max_nbytes>
  <url><UPLOAD_URL/></url>
</file_info>
<result>
  <file_ref>
    <file_name><OUTFILE_0/></file_name>
    <open_name>out</open_name>
  </file_ref>
</result>

Because you will hopefully still be in the project's root folder, from now onwards referred to as $PROJECTROOT, you can type

./bin/create_work -appname upper_case -wu_name test -wu_template templates/upper_case_wu -result_temp
late templates/upper_case_result in

and it will create 1 Work Unit named test in the database

You are now ready to run the project on a test run.

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