David LeBauer

Thanks for bringing this up - Looks like there used to be a different issue https://github.com/PecanProject/bety/issues/389

For documentation: * need to add record to machines table * .e.g https://www.betydb.org/machines/25 * need to set up dump.bety.sh cron job and dump_url * e.g. https://welsch.cyverse.org/pecan/dump/bety.tar.gz

@Chris-Schnaufer this gets a bit confusing, but the documentation for how to sync instances of betydb is in the [PEcAn documentation](https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/develop/book_source/05_developer_guide/02_maintenance/03_Database-Synchronization.Rmd). I'm not sure if this should be combined with...

@robkooper do you have a recommended set of steps for making the database secure? E.g. - creating new psql users that have more restricted access than the default postgres and...

Also customize web home pages - create site-specific application.yml for BETYdb - create local config.php for PEcAn from [config.example.php](https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/develop/web/config.example.php)

Would it be difficult to allow data to be uploaded for traits that don't have an associated covariate? As is, every time I add a new variable, I have to...

Please start with > if a column name corresponds to a variable name and isn't mentioned in the trait_covariate_associations table, it would automatically be considered a trait variable with no...

@robkooper I just got another report about it happening on bety6.ncsa.illinois.edu / terraref.ncsa.illinois.edu/bety is this something that can be set, at least as a default, in the docker container or...

It happened last week. Also the accounts were created but no email was sent out.

I think we've solved this limitation on the past with trigger functions, eg https://github.com/PecanProject/bety/search?q=trigger&type=Issues