Installation Instruction.

Table of content

Setting up

Download and unzip the source code to the preferred location.
To setup the config file, open the config.py file and edit as appropriate.
Open SQL Server Management Studio and create your database using the database name as defined in the config file above.
Open the scripts folder and execute the procedure p_normalize_data.sql against the newly created database.
Download and install Python 3 SDK, prefarably 3.9.
Move files from pcard-expenses to the UNPROCESSED_FOLDER as defined in the config.py to prepare the processing.
Follow the next step to execute the program.

There are numerous ways to install and execute this application. I will mention two methods.

This program is developed using PyCharm, so we can download and install PyCharm. The following should be installed before proceeding.

Download and install PyCharm IDE.
Open this project by opening it via PyCharm by selecting Open and locating the source code folder.
Ensuring that main.py is the default starting file.
Going to the terminal in the window below, install the required dependecies using the following command:
1. python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
After executing the above command successfully, click on Run to start the application.

Open the command prompt and navigate to the source code folder.
Once inside, run the following command without the *: python main.py
If it fails, create the virtual environment by running: python3 -m venv venv
Then execute the following:
1. cd env\bin
2. activate
Then install all the prerequisites listed in the requirement.txt file by executing the following command: python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
After all the requiements are successfully installed, execute this again: python3 -m venv venv
The program will start working and process files as long as the unprocessed folder is not empty.
Close the command prompt to stop the process.