The Labs Workbench is currently in beta testing. Documentation is subject to change.

This document refers to the Labs Workbench demonstration instance available at https://www.workbench.nationaldataservice.org.

This User's Guide refers to the demonstration instance of NDS Labs Workbench available at http://www.workbench.nationaldataservice.org.

For more information, see What is NDS Labs Workbench?

This section describes the NDS Labs Workbench account registration and approval process.

To register for an account, select

or 

 and enter your registration information:

After submitting your account registration information, should should receive an email from the NDS Labs team with the subject "Email address verification". Click the link in this message to verify your email and complete the registration process. After your email address has been verified, your registration will be reviewed and approved by the NDS Labs team. 

The NDS Labs team will review your registration request and get back to you within 5 business days. You will be notified whether your request has been approved or denied. See our Frequently Asked Questions for information about who is able to access the service.

Labs Workbench restricts resources allocated to user accounts and individual applications.

• Account resource limits: By default, each user account is allocated 12GB RAM, 4 cores, and 20GB of storage.  If more resources are required, contact ndslabs-support@nationaldataservice.org.

• Application resource limits: Application developers are required to specify baseline resource limits for their services. User's can override these settings by cloning the official application. For more information, please see the "Resource Limits" section below. For developers interested in estimating resource requirements for services, please see the Developer's Guide.

After you receive your account approvel email, select the

 link and enter your username and password.

To recover a forgotten password, on the

 page select the

 link.  Enter your username and a password recovery email will be sent to the registered email address.

After logging in, select your username in the upper right-hand corner then the

menu item.  

Select your username in the upper right-hand corner then the

 menu item.

 

Select the

 link you to manage your applications.  From this page you can add, rename, configure, start and stop applications. Once an application is started, you can view logs and access a console.  You can also enable or disable basic authentication on the running application.

To add a new application, select  

. This will take you to the application catalog, where you can search for or add your own applications. Select the

 for an application to add it to your dashboard.

Official applications are added with reasonable default settings when possible.  However, you may want to customize settings or add optional services. Note that some services require configuration.

Once added to your dashboard, to configure a service, select the

 button.

Some applications offer optional configurable dependencies.  To add an optional service, select the

button. You will be prompted to enter any required configuration information.

To start or launch the application, select

. 

During the startup process, you may notice the following: