West-Life Virtual Research Environment Docs
  • Introduction
  • Data Management
  • Virtual Folder
    • User's guide
      • Settings
        • Import settings from another Virtual Folder
      • File Manager
      • File Picker
      • Related applications
        • Jupyter notebook
      • Metadata
    • Installation guide
      • Cloud installation
      • Local installation
      • Integration with SSO
    • Integration guide
      • Select File or Dir from Virtual Folder
      • Working with WEBDAV
      • Embedding Virtual Folder Component
      • Adding component into Virtual Folder
    • Developer's guide
      • Backend
      • Frontend - Web Application
      • Metadata and API
        • Dataset metadata and API
        • File metadata and API
      • Import Export Settings API
      • Related application and services
      • Untitled
  • Virtual Machines and Containers
    • Preparing vagrant VM template
    • Preparing docker container
  • Repository
    • Installation guide
      • Prerequisites
      • Automatic installation
      • Manual installation from source codes
    • User's guide
      • Scientist imports project proposal
      • Staff uploads data
      • Scientist works with dataset
      • Metadata
    • Developer's guide
      • Metadata generation
      • ARIA integration
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User's guide

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Last updated 6 years ago

The Virtual Folder is accessible from the West-life portal at

After you click the Login page, you will be redirected to authentication service (ARIA operated by Instruct, or West-Life SSO). You can login or create a new account.

User can navigate through Virtual Folder components by hovering the 'Virtual Folder' menu.

After succesful login, you'll be redirected to your account in Virtual Folder at. .

UI allows to do these basic tasks: 1. allow you to connect to your scattered data (B2DROP, DROPBOX, any WEBDAV capable and FILESYSTEM (in local deployment) type is supported). 2. is for browsing scattered data, check them. It allows basic visualization of text, image and PDB files 3. is to choose a file and generate publicly accessible URL refering this file. It can be used to download the file or upload to the selected folder using WEBDAV protocol.

https://portal.west-life.eu/virtualfolder/
Settings
File manager
File picker
https://portal.west-life.eu