Open the main navigation menu by clicking the three horizontal lines in the top left of the screen at any time. You'll use this menu to sign in and out of Terra, manage resources, and access resource libraries and support.
Managing your Terra profile, billing info, and groups
You can access most administrative and support features in Terra by clicking on the three horizontal lines at the top left of any page. Click your name to manage everything specific to you (see details below).
Profile information
Edit personal/contact information, affiliations, and notification settings here.
Linking controlled data authorization
You can link external authorizations (such as your NIH login) for access to controlled data in your profile. Linking your credentials allows access to all the controlled data you are authorized to analyze.
To learn more, see Linking authorization/accessing controlled data on external servers.
Billing
Here you'll find a list of Billing Projects you are associated with and your role (e.g. owner, user). Billing Project owners can view lists of members of each Billing Project, and add or remove users.
To learn more about what level of access each user role involves, see Best practices for managing shared funding.
Groups
Manage team access to data, code, and resources - including billing and workspaces - with groups.
Why use managed groups?
Sharing or granting permission to groups, rather than individuals, is a way to streamline collaboration. It's easier and less error-prone to update a group than it is to update permissions for each individual resource when people join or leave a team. This helps ensure that data, workspaces and other resources are shared with the right people.
Create and view groups
You can create groups, view the groups you belong to, and check your role in each group in the Group Management page.
Manage specific groups
Click on the name of a group to access the group management page, where you can add users, edit users' roles, and select the option to allow anyone to request access.
Group roles in a nutshell
Owner-level users are able to invite and/or grant access to other collaborators. Group owners can assign other users' roles, controlling who is able to view/copy the contents of their workspace, run computations on affiliated account, or edit the content. For more information on the structure of permissions on Terra, please read Managing access to shared resources (data and tools).
Managing Cloud Environments (for Galaxy, Jupyter and RStudio)
View a list of your existing cloud environment virtual machines and associated persistent disks by clicking on "Cloud Environments" in the main menu under your name. Here, you'll find details such as cost estimates showing you how much you're spending, and which Billing Project each resource is attached to. You can delete the virtual machines and associated persistent disks for any of your workspaces from this page.
Accessing, sharing and cloning workspaces
The drop-down menu allows you to explore workspaces that are already available to you. These include workspaces you have created or cloned, or that someone else shared with you, as well as public workspaces.
To learn more about using workspaces - a computational sandbox for storing and analyzing data - see Working with Workspaces.
To share or clone a workspace, open the workspace and click on the button with three dots in the upper right corner.
or click the three dot button at the far right of the workspace name:
Curated tools, data, and workspaces in the Terra Libraries
Terra includes libraries of curated workflows, showcase workspaces, and data to help you build a custom workspace for your use case.
For more details about these libraries, see Build a workspace using data, showcase, and tools library resources.
For more on showcase workspaces (also called "featured workspaces"), see Curated template and tutorial workspaces.
Terra Support
Through the Terra Support knowledge base, you can access individualized support from the Terra team, as well as a comprehensive database of documents and other resources to help you help yourself. This support site includes the following sections:
Terra Support Home
Self-service learning resources - including online Terra University courses in Leanpub and a Getting Started section with articles on setting up billing, security, and workspaces on the Terra platform - will help you get started quickly.
Terra's documentation and community forum pages round out the self-serve options.
Blog
Read stories from the trenches about how new features and improvements are making it easier to do work on Terra in the blog.
Training Events
You'll find a collection of slides, videos, workspaces, and more from previous workshops and training events.
Contact us directly
The main menu bar also includes a "Contact Us" button, which calls up an integrated form for submitting questions/comments directly to Terra Support.