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+# Quality Recticel Application
+
+Production-ready Flask application for quality management and traceability.
+
+## 📋 Current Status (November 29, 2025)
+
+### ✅ Production Environment
+- **Deployment**: Docker containerized with docker-compose
+- **Web Server**: Gunicorn WSGI server (8 workers)
+- **Database**: MariaDB 11.3
+- **Python**: 3.10-slim
+- **Status**: Running and healthy on port 8781
+
+### 🎨 Recent UI/UX Improvements
+
+#### Maintenance Card
+- ✅ Dark mode support with CSS custom properties
+- ✅ System storage information display (logs, database, backups)
+- ✅ Database table management with drop functionality
+- ✅ Improved visual hierarchy and spacing
+
+#### Backup Management
+- ✅ Quick action buttons (Full Backup, Data-Only, Refresh)
+- ✅ Per-table backup and restore functionality
+- ✅ Collapsible table operations section
+- ✅ Split layout: Schedule creation (1/3) + Active schedules (2/3)
+- ✅ Modern card-based interface
+
+### 🔧 Technical Fixes
+- ✅ Fixed database config loading to use `mariadb` Python module
+- ✅ Corrected SQL syntax for reserved keyword `rows`
+- ✅ All endpoints use proper config keys (`server_domain`, `username`, `database_name`)
+- ✅ Storage paths configured for Docker environment (`/srv/quality_app/logs`, `/srv/quality_app/backups`)
+- ✅ Resolved duplicate Flask route function names
+
+### 📂 Project Structure
+```
+/srv/quality_app/
+├── py_app/                    # Python application
+│   ├── app/                   # Flask application package
+│   │   ├── __init__.py       # App factory
+│   │   ├── routes.py         # Route handlers (5200+ lines)
+│   │   ├── models.py         # Database models
+│   │   ├── database_backup.py # Backup management
+│   │   └── templates/        # Jinja2 templates
+│   │       └── settings.html # Settings & maintenance UI
+│   ├── static/               # CSS, JS, images
+│   ├── instance/             # Instance-specific config
+│   ├── requirements.txt      # Python dependencies
+│   └── wsgi.py              # WSGI entry point
+├── backups/                  # Database backups
+├── logs/                     # Application logs
+├── documentation/            # Project documentation
+├── docker-compose.yml        # Container orchestration
+├── Dockerfile               # Multi-stage build
+└── docker-entrypoint.sh     # Container initialization
+
+```
+
+### 🗄️ Database
+- **Engine**: MariaDB 11.3
+- **Host**: db (Docker network)
+- **Port**: 3306
+- **Database**: trasabilitate
+- **Size monitoring**: Real-time via information_schema
+- **Backup support**: Full, data-only, per-table
+
+### 🔐 Security & Access Control
+- **Role-based access**: superadmin, admin, warehouse_manager, worker, etc.
+- **Session management**: Flask sessions
+- **Database operations**: Limited to superadmin/admin roles
+- **Table operations**: Admin-plus decorator protection
+
+### 🚀 Deployment
+
+#### Start Application
+```bash
+cd /srv/quality_app
+docker compose up -d
+```
+
+#### Stop Application
+```bash
+docker compose down
+```
+
+#### View Logs
+```bash
+docker logs quality-app --tail 100 -f
+```
+
+#### Rebuild After Changes
+```bash
+docker compose down
+docker compose build
+docker compose up -d
+```
+
+### 📊 API Endpoints (Maintenance)
+
+#### Storage Information
+- `GET /api/maintenance/storage-info` - Get logs/database/backups sizes
+
+#### Database Tables
+- `GET /api/maintenance/database-tables` - List all tables with stats
+- `POST /api/maintenance/drop-table` - Drop a database table (dangerous)
+
+#### Per-Table Backups
+- `POST /api/backup/table` - Backup single table
+- `GET /api/backup/table-backups` - List table-specific backups
+- `POST /api/restore/table` - Restore single table from backup
+
+### 🔍 Monitoring
+- **Health Check**: Docker health checks via curl
+- **Container Status**: `docker compose ps`
+- **Application Logs**: `/srv/quality_app/logs/` (access.log, error.log)
+- **Database Status**: Included in storage info
+
+### 📝 Recent Changes
+**Commit**: `41f9caa` - Improve maintenance & backup UI with per-table operations
+- Enhanced maintenance card with dark mode
+- Added system storage monitoring
+- Implemented per-table database operations
+- Restructured backup UI with better organization
+- Fixed database connectivity and SQL syntax issues
+
+### 🔄 Git Repository
+- **Branch**: `docker_updates`
+- **Remote**: https://gitea.moto-adv.com/ske087/quality_app.git
+- **Status**: Up to date with origin
+
+### 🐛 Known Issues
+None currently reported.
+
+### 📚 Documentation
+Additional documentation available in `/srv/quality_app/documentation/`:
+- Backup system guide
+- Database structure
+- Docker deployment
+- Restore procedures
+
+### 👥 Development Team
+- **Active Branch**: docker_updates
+- **Last Updated**: November 29, 2025
+- **Deployment**: Production environment
+
+---
+
+For more detailed information, see the documentation folder or contact the development team.