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Tutorial I - Gateway Login

Create Account or Use CILogon

1. Create a user account or use CILogon using 'Create Account' on the home page.
2. For account creation,
   
   1. Account creation page link:https://testdrive.airavata.org/create
      
   2. Please enter the required information and submit.
   3. Important;
      1. Username cannot have spaces.
      2. Username cannot be an email address.
      3. Username & password must be longer than 5 characters.
      4. The password is case sensitive.
      5. All the mandatory fields indicated by a star; *.
3. Users could use CILogon and get access to the gateway through using campus credential or Gmail account.
   
4. Account activation;
   1. The user will receive an email upon creating the account to provided email to confirm the creation. Follow the instructions and login to the gateway using the username and password.
   2. Once the account is confirmed gateway admin has to provide gateway access after validating the user account.
   3. The user will be notified gateway access via email.
       

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1. Once the account is created successfully and access granted or CILogon is used successfully, then access will be granted to login to the gateway through 'Log In' link in the home page.
   
   1.  Link: https://testdrive.airavata.org/login
      
      

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1. Experiments can be canceled by navigating to 'Experiment Summary’ screen.
2. Experiments can be cancelled canceled with statuses;
   1. LAUNCHED
   2. EXECUTING
   3. SCHEDULED
3. Click on ‘Cancel’ button and immediately the experiment status will change to CANCELING.
4. If the job is already COMPLETED in the resource the job will proceed to COMPLETE and upon completing the experiment status will change to CANCELLEDCANCELED. 
5. If the output is already transferred to gateway they will be available even when the experiment is cancelledcanceled. But if the outputs were not transferred they will not be available for user the user since the cancellation was initiated by the user.
6. If the job was successfully CANCELLED  CANCELED upon changing the job state to CANCELLED CANCELED experiment status will also change to CANCELED.
7. CANCELED experiments are only available to clone.

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1. Experiments can be cloned irrespective of the experiment status by clicking ‘Clone’ in ‘Experiment Summary’ page.
2. When cloned the user will be navigated to ‘Edit Experiment’ page of the new experiment. The new experiment will have exact same information as the earlier existing experiment.   
3. The new experiment will have a new experiment ID and the status will always be CREATED.
   New experiment name = Clone of + Old experiment name
4. The user can change existing information (except the project and application) in ‘Edit Experiment’ page and save or save & launch.

Share Experiment

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Share Experiment

1. The user can share the experiment at creation or at any stage of the experiment from experiment summary page.
2. Owner can share the experiment with 'READ' or 'WRITE' access
3. When shared with 'READ' access, shared user can
   1. View the experiment.
   2. Clone and create a new one using one of the own projects.
   3. Download both input and output files.
4. When shared with write access, shared user can
   1. View the experiment.
   2. Edit, launch and cancel the experiment.
   3. Clone and create a new one using one of the own projects OR with one of the original owner's projects ( To use someone else's project to create an experiment need to have write access to the project).
   4. Download both input and output files.
5. With 'READ' or 'WRITE' access shared users cannot change the owners 'Shared User's list. Only the owner can change the 'Shared Users' list.
6. Shared experiments are available in Experiment → Browse.

Tutorial VI - User Settings

User settings are to add user's own allocation account details and storage details into the gateway. Gateway user can provide their resource allocation details and also add an SSH key for secure communication.

Compute Resource

1. Users can select the compute resource which they have an allocation and enter details.
2. Can use the default credential store key generated by the system or can generate new keys and assign.

Storage Resource

Credential Store

Tutorial VII - User Assistance

Contact Gateway Administrator

1. Gateway users can contact gateway admins to; 

   1. Report an issue
   2. Request a feature
   3. Suggest improvements
   4. Request for an Application
   5. Seek assistance
2. To make these requests to gateway admin use the email address provided in 'Contact Us' in main menuhome page.