Accessing and Modifying Tales¶
The Run view allows you to interact with and modify your running Tale. From this page you can add and remove files to your Tale, edit the metadata, stop and rebuild the environment, and publish to external repositories for long term storage.
Launching the Tale¶
After you have finalized your tale and click Create New Tale and Launch, you’ll be brought to the Run page where it will start up, seen in the image below. From here you can access the tale, along with an assortment of other actions that are documented on the `run page`_.
A tale that is being created and configured.
Interacting With Tales¶
RStudio¶
When starting a tale that is using an RStudio Environment, you’ll be presented with RStudio, shown below.
Each of the folders shown are analogous to the tabs under the Files tab. You can access all of your home files under the home/ folder; data that was brought in from a third party service can be found under data/; files that were added to your workspace are found under workspace/.
Jupyter Notebook¶
When starting a Tale that has a Jupyter Notebook Environment, you’ll be presented with a typical Notebook interface.
As with RStudio, data that came from external repositories can be found under data/, home directory files in home/, and workspace files in workspace/.
Adding Data¶
Although compute environments are used differently, data is added the same way. The Files tab provides an interface for adding data from your home folder, local machine, or from external sources.
Home Directory¶
The Home directory serves as a place for files that you can use across many Tales. Whenever a new Tale is created or launched, this directory is added to your Tale. You may want to use this folder to store configuration files, api keys, or commonly used scripts.
Tale Workspace¶
The Workspace folder is for files that only used by a particular Tale. For example, if you have a Tale that is doing a specific analysis that isn’t relevant to other Tales it may be more appropriate to add it here rather than the Home folder.
External Data¶
When data is brought in from external services such as Dataverse or DataONE, it is kept throughout Whole Tale. This allows you to include it in any of your Tales so that you don’t have to re-register it. When these datasets are added to a Tale, they are added to the External Data folder. You can register the data in the Manage page, but will need to add them to the Tale here.
Connecting to Git¶
Git repositories can be included in a Tale’s Workspace. For instructions on how to connect a Git repository to your Tale, refer to the Tale Actions section.
Modifying Tale Metadata¶
The Run page can also be used to access the Tale metadata editor, shown below.
The editor can be used to change the environment, add authors to the Tale, change the license, make the Tale public, and provide in in-depth description of the Tale.
Tale Actions¶
In addition to interacting with a Tale environment, you can do a number of operations on the Tale itself. Most of these actions can be found in the Tale’s action menu, highlighted in the image below.
The Tale’s action menu
Importing from Git¶
To clone a git repository to the Tale’s workspace/ directory, click the Connect to Git repository link. Paste the link of the git repository eg: https://github.com/cjlortie/Shrub_density_estimates.git in the text field and click Import. The status of the import can be seen in the Tasks dropdown, which will open automatically. Once the repository is cloned, you can find it in your Tale workspace/ folder.
Exporting a Tale¶
In the case that you want to save a Tale to your local machine, select the Export Tale link from the action menu. This will allow you to run the Tale on your local machine, and may be more suitable for long term storage.
Publishing a Tale¶
When you are ready to archive your Tale and retrieve a DOI, select the Publish option from the action menu. For more information on publishing, visit the publish page.
Restarting and Rebuilding¶
If your Tale becomes stuck in an error state, you may want to restart it. Click the Restart Tale button in the action menu to destroy the current instance and receive a new one.
If you change the Tale’s frontend environment, you’ll need to completely rebuild the Tale. This won’t delete your data, but will give you a fresh environment.
Stopping a Tale¶
To stop a running Tale, click the Stop button on the main Tale bar. Stopping the Tale will destroy the current running instance, but will not permanently delete the Tale.