Tutorials

Tutorials

🟦 For Non-Technical Users: No coding required! 🟦

These tutorials are written for everyone. You don’t need to know how to code. Just follow the steps and diagrams to get started quickly.

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Welcome! These step-by-step guides will help you get started with Elvis, even if you have no technical background.

Contents

• Getting Started: Your First Call List
• Customizing Configuration
• Running Elvis with History Append
• Validating Output

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Getting Started: Your First Call List

This tutorial walks you through installing Elvis and generating your first sales call list.

Steps

1. Download Elvis

   • Go to the main README and follow the install instructions.

2. Run Elvis

   • Open a terminal and run:

   bin/elvis.sh

3. Check the Output

   • Find your call list at home/calllist.txt.

Pseudocode

Procedure GenerateCallList()
  Begin
    Download Elvis
    Run elvis.sh
    Output is written to home/calllist.txt
  End Procedure

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Customizing Configuration

You can change how Elvis works by editing etc/elvisrc. See the Configuration Reference for details.

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Running Elvis with History Append

To keep a record of all companies found, run:

bin/elvis.sh --append-history

This updates srv/company_history.txt and writes a patch to var/spool/.

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Validating Output

To check your call list for errors, run:

sh lib/validate_calllist.sh

See How-to Guides for troubleshooting tips.

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