Getting started with FS

[Mark Constable]

Hi folks, I hope it's Ok to ask some dumb startup questions.
Hehe, you can't tell me to go read TFM or look at the list
archives so I'm safe, I think.

I've got FS in a working state but now I have to actually use
the program (enter data) but it appears that starting from
scratch with no prior base of data is awkward. Some of the
form fields that are required are also unusable with no
settings behind them to select an option.. so I can't proceed
to even set up a new account (to see how FS works).

Any hints on the form fields for these Admin pages would be
appreciated... and how to get the right values into the form
itself (I suspect they come out of mySQL) ?

What example values should go in these fields ?

 View/Edit services
	Service
	(too many to list)
 View/Edit packages 
	Package        
	Comment        
	Setup fee      
	Freq. (months) 
	Recurring fee 
 View/Edit agent types 
	Type
 View/Edit agents
	Agent      
	Agent type 
	Frequency  
	Program  
 View/Edit referrals 
	Referral
 View/Edit locales and tax rates
	(Too US-centric to ask)
 View/Edit POPs
	City      
	State     
	Area Code (example US ph num)
	Exchange  ( ditto )
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The things I fell over on were;

o I was unaware of CGI::Base as distinct from CGI.pm
o Needed a SUID version of perl
o The .htaccess files are unusable as distributed
o No conf/secrets
o No example entries to start off with

Any hints appreciated and thanks to Ivan (and probably others)
for making something like this GPL'd, great stuff :-)

--markc