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Dashboard

SciCat's Dashboard or also sometimes called Landing Page is the first page that you see independent of whether you are logged in or not. If you want to login click Sign in on the top right button, see here for more information. When set to datasets as main access point, it will show an overview of all datasets that you have access to. If you do not login you see those that are public.

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SciCat offers now new features for viewing metadata as you like with adjustable columns.

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You can change the columns to be shown by chosing from the three right dots "Column setting" and select those you would like. You can also drag columns by hovering over dots that appear just next to the label, click and pull it where you want to place it, then release.

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You can

  1. sort columns (click on the name and pull)
  2. adjust width of columns (left block of dots)
  3. remove or add columns (selection from Column settings)
  4. invert order of display (click arrow next to the name)
  5. apply a filter directly on that dataset with various options ("contains", "equals", "startsWith", "endsWith", "empty", "notEmpty") and either add (+), or (||) and exclude (x) another filter.

Overall Menu

You can always navigate to other parts of the application, simply by clicking on the user icon on the top right corner

Overall Menu

Finding Datasets

SciCat provides several possibilities for finding the right datasets. You can use the top search bar, you can narrow down your selection by applying filters and/or conditions and the user can search on scientific metadata as well.

Using Filters and Conditions

On the left you can apply most common filters. Currently there are

  1. Location: location of creation of the dataset.
  2. PID: Identifier of the dataset.
  3. Groups: who owns the dataset.
  4. Type: data type - e.g. raw data or derived data.
  5. Keywords: tags added to the dataset.
  6. Start - End Date: show datasets captured between the dates that you have set.
  7. Text: which searches across dataset name and description.

The text fields provide an auto completion, which becomes visible as you type.

You can click on the date calendar to select the start date and a second to select end date. Make sure you select 2 dates.

You can configure the selection of filters and add specific conditions. An example shows two additional conditions added: filters

View Details

To view a dataset simply click on it in the table and a more detailed view will load (this is covered in the datasets section)