Generating new service_account.json for running locally

In order to run EPSchedule locally (e.g., with main.py), you'll need a service_account.json file, which contains the credentials for the EPSchedule dev service account.

Project admins can generate a new service_account.json via these steps:

1. Visit https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts?project=epschedule-v2
2. For [email protected], select the "Create Key" action.
3. Choose JSON format for the credentials file.
4. A file of the form epschedule-v2-[id].json will download to your computer.
5. Rename this file to service_account.json, which can then be placed in the epschedule folder.
6. NOTE: this file contains secrets and must not be uploaded to GitHub! The project .gitignore has been set up to try to prevent this.