Unable to Run Food Bank Source Code & Clarification on Intended Usage

Sanjaikumar Senthilkumar

Hi Community,

I’m in the process of setting up the Food Bank Exercises for Blackbaud CRM development, but I’m currently unable to get the Food Bank source code working in my environment. I'm still investigating the cause, but before diving too deep into debugging, I had a broader question I wanted to clarify:

From the documentation, it appears the Food Bank sub-application is built specifically for tracking food-related donations and distributions. However:

Is this source code and table design intended to be used strictly for food-related inventory, or is it acceptable and supported to repurpose this structure for managing other types.

Understanding the intended flexibility of the sample code will help determine whether I can extend the concept for broader use cases once I resolve the technical issues.

If anyone has guidance on this—or has encountered issues getting the Food Bank source code to run—I’d really appreciate your insight.