User Guide

This guide provides detailed information about the Whole Tale system for new users.

Contents:

• Overview
  • What is Whole Tale?
  • What is a “Tale”?
  • What can Whole Tale do?
  • Who uses Whole Tale?
• Features and Limitations
  • Key Features
  • Planned Features
  • Limitations
• Quickstart
  • Launching a tale
  • Creating a new tale
• Signing In
• Exploring Existing Tales
  • My Tales
  • Shared with Me
  • Public Tales
  • Currently Running Tales
  • Tale Operations
• Creating New Tales
  • Environments
  • Creating an Empty Tale
  • Creating Tales from Git Repositories
  • Creating Tales from Third Party Data Centers
• Accessing and Modifying Tales
  • Launching the Tale
  • Interacting With Tales
  • Adding Data
  • Modifying Tale Metadata
  • Tale Actions
• Computational Environments
  • Extending repo2docker
  • Jupyter
  • RStudio
  • MATLAB
  • STATA
  • OpenRefine
  • Customizing the Environment
• Managing Data
  • Home Folder
  • Data Folder
  • Common Operations
  • Environments
• Sharing Tales
  • Read Permissions
  • Edit Permissions
• Versioning Tales
  • Deleting Versions
  • Renaming Versions
  • Restoring Versions
  • Exporting and Publishing Versions
  • Versioning Model
• Publishing Tales
  • Publishers
  • Publishing Your Tale
  • Whole Tale Generated Files
• Exporting and Running Locally
  • Exporting
  • Running Tales Locally
• Working with Git
  • Commandline
  • Create or Connect to Git Repository
• Integrating with Whole Tale
  • Data registration
  • Analyze in Whole Tale
• Account Settings
  • Connecting to DataONE
  • Connecting to Dataverse
  • Connecting to Zenodo