Project Explorer for NEES (PEN)

Project Explorer for NEES(PEN) Rachelle Howell University of Texas at Austin

Outline • Logging in • Navigating PEN • Downloading Files • Creating Trials/Experiments/Repetitions • Uploading Files • Editing Directory or File Information • Adding Specimens • Exiting PEN • Running PEN within the hub

Logging in • You will need the following information: • Your NEEShub login and password • Your project number • A local directory - If this is the first time you are connecting to a project, this should be an empty directory. PEN will make a local copy of the warehouse directory structure for the project in this directory.

Logging in Enter your NEEShub login and password

Logging in Select your project from the list OR Click the “Change” button, enter your local directory, and click the “Open” button. Enter the project number manually

You are logged in!

Navigating PEN File info and file import tabs Project directories and files

Navigating PEN If you forget…. • PEN uses color coding to indicate file status • BLACK – the file/directory resides both on your local computer and in the warehouse • BLUE – the file/directory is on your local computer but not in the warehouse. Upload a blue file to make it turn black • Grey - the file/directory is in the warehouse but not on your local computer. Download the file to make it turn black • Red - the file/directory resides both on your local computer and in the warehouse but they have different checksums. The files may be different.

Downloading files If a file is grey, you can download it by right-clicking on the filename and selecting “Download” If a directory contains grey files, you can download all of the files by performing the download at the directory level The same can be done at a higher level. A project-level download is shown below. This will download all of the files for the entire project.

Downloading files Downloaded files will turn black The files are copied to the local directory

Creating Trials/Experiments/Repetitions At the project level, you can create an experiment At the experiment level, you can create a trial At the trial level, you can create a repetition

Creating Trials/Experiments/Repetitions Any trials, experiments, or repetitions that you make are made locally and will need to be uploaded to the project warehouse Newly made experiment

If you make a mistake… You can even delete files from the warehouse You can delete it

If you make a mistake… Contains files, cannot be deleted Does not contain files, can be deleted A directory can only be deleted from the warehouse if it contains NO files.

Uploading files Select the directory to which you want to import the files Select the files you want to import When you import files, they are copied from their current location to the local directory on your computer Click the Import button

Uploading files Files can be uploaded in bulk at the directory level The files can be uploaded individually OR

Uploading files Uploaded files will turn black If the uploaded file turns red instead of black, make sure a local checksum is being performed prior to upload under the Tools/Preferences menu Checksumming a red file will make it turn black provided the local file matches the file in the Project Warehouse

Uploading files You cannot upload the subdirectory of a directory that does not exist in the Project Warehouse. You must upload a directory structure at its highest level

Editing directory or file information Use the Info tab to edit basic file or directory information

Editing directory or file information Tool associations can now be done in PEN

Adding specimens Specimens can be created and uploaded in PEN

Adding specimens PEN contains the same material types found in the Project Warehouse Don’t forget to click the “Save button

Exiting PEN Logout and close the project Close the project Exit PEN

Running PEN within the hub To run PEN within the hub, click “Launch Tool”

Running PEN within the hub The local directory is now located in your personal space on NEEShubinstead of on the hard drive of your computer Running PEN within the hub allows you to move files between the Project Warehouse and your personal space on the hub

Project Explorer for NEES (PEN)