Manage users

Contents

• What is a PickCells ‘user’?
• Administrator account
• Create a new user
• Log in as a new user
• Delete a user
• Reset all user accounts
• Log off

What is a PickCells ‘user’?

PickCells uses the concept of users to control access to experiments within a given installation of PickCells. Each user has a user name and password and can create, delete and share experiments.

The first user to log in to a new PickCells installation automatically receives administrator rights. They can then create and remove other users.

These other users can share this same PickCells installation. The users can share their experiments with other users, granting these other users either read-only access - allowing the other users to view the experiment - or read-write access - allowing the other users to view and modify the experiment.

Administrator account

The first user to log in to a new PickCells installation will automatically receive administrator rights. The administrator is the only user who can create and delete other user accounts.

Create a new user

To create a new user:

• Click the Go to the User Overview icon, located on the bottom-left of the PickCells window, to go to the user screen.
• Click the Add a new user icon, located on the right-hand side in the My Experiments panel.

The New User… dialog will appear:

• Let the user enter their user name and password.
• Click Login.

The user screen will appear and the new user will be visible in the Managed Users panel.

Log in as a new user

To login using a new user account:

• Click the Log off icon. This will automatically close all opened experiments and return you to the welcome screen.
• Click Login.

The Login dialog will appear:

• Enter the new user name and password.
• Click Login.

Delete a user

Deleting a user both deletes the user as well as all the experiments that belong to the user. If any of the experiments were shared with other users, these shared experiments will no longer be accessible to other users either.

To delete a user:

• Right-click on the name of the user to be deleted.
• Select Delete.

The Delete User dialog will appear:

• Click Yes.

Reset all user accounts

A complete reset of all user accounts can be performed by deleting the admindb folder in the root folder of the PickCells installation (e.g. C:\Users\user\PickCells-0.8.0-SNAPSHOT\admindb\).

Log off

Click the Log off icon. This will automatically close all opened experiments and return you to the welcome screen.