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Organizing your SimScale content is critical to allowing you to quickly and easily find the correct project while ensuring that only the correct people can access it. This can be done in the SimScale Dashboard. There are two core features of content organization at SimScale: Spaces and Folders.
These features allow you to organize your own content as well as allow multi-user accounts to efficiently manage groups of users and the content they access.
Spaces are the highest-level organizational features that have a name, members, and content. They are used to segregate content within organizations and ensure that only members of the space can access the content contained within.
Spaces do not own any content, they only provide permissions to its members to access the content.
Every space belongs to one and only one organization and has members from the users of that organization. It is not possible to have users from different organizations in the same space.
Every user has a personal space that they can create content in. The only member of your personal space is you; only you can create content within your personal space.
Your Personal Space is available under the My Projects section of your dashboard:
Customers with Teams or Enterprise licenses have access to Teams Spaces. A Team Space is a space that can be seen by multiple users; its members are controlled by a company administrator.
Team Spaces can be used to allow only certain users to access specific content. For example, you might have a Team Space for each customer project (Customer A – HX1B, Customer B – RM101) or for each group at your company (Product, Simulation). Any content created within or moved to a Team Space can only be accessed by members of the space and any users it has been directly shared with.
As a space administrator, you can add and manage teams. This is shown below:
Important
Team Spaces are created and managed by your organization with assistance from SimScale support. Your organization will have to contact SimScale support if you would like to:
A folder is a location to store your content, including projects and other folders. Folders at SimScale are similar to those in other applications and are managed in your dashboard, as discussed in the Dashboard section within this document. Every folder has an editable name.
Owners or members of a space get specific permissions for all projects contained in the space. In other words, the level of permissions granted is configurable.
The following table shows what the owner of a space is permitted to do:
| Permission in Personal Space | Owner of Space |
| Can view content and folders |  |
| Can copy content | |
| Can create content and folders | |
| Can move content | |
| Can edit content | |
| Can delete content | |
| Can share content | |
The following table shows what a space member is permitted to do if they have Admin, Edit, Copy, and View permissions:
| Permission in a Team Space | Admin | Edit | Copy | View |
| Can view content and folders | | | | |
| Can copy content | | | | |
| Can create content and folders | | | ||
| Can move content | | | ||
| Can edit content | | | ||
| Can delete content | | | ||
| Can share content (if allowed by space setting) | | | ||
| Can add/remove users to/from space | | |||
| Can modify permissions of users in space | |
Depending on the sharing permissions set by the admin individual projects can be shared with other users outside the space or your organization or made public. In this case, users will not gain access to see the folder or the space where the project is located.
Space admin can set different sharing permissions to the space which consist of No sharing, Within Space, Within organization, and With anyone.
To create a team click on the ‘+ Add team’ button (see Figure 3). This will open a panel where you can name the team, control the sharing permissions and choose the members you want the team to include. Don’t forget to save the settings.
The Dashboard is one of the main environments in the SimScale platform. Users can create new projects, verify their core hour balance, and access projects that have been shared with them from their dashboard.
Find below an overview of the functions available:
To create a new simulation project, click the ‘New Project’ button on the Dashboard. The following dialog box appears:
Once the project is created, you’ll automatically be redirected to the SimScale simulation platform i.e. the Workbench.
The dashboard contains functionalities that allow you to create, open, move, share, edit, and delete projects. By right-clicking on a project of interest, all options are shown:
Once a project is selected, all editing options are also available from the right-hand side panel:
Furthermore, you can also open projects with a double left-click, or by selecting the project and clicking on the top-right icon:
To create a folder, navigate to a space that you have access to and select the icon in the upper right corner as shown. You will be prompted to provide a name for the folder.
Folders can be opened, moved, edited, and deleted. To access these options, you can right-click on the folder, or use the right-hand side panel after the folder is selected:
Important
When a folder is deleted, all contained folders and projects within it will be deleted.
Last updated: January 26th, 2023
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