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eLabFTW
eLabFTW is our Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN).
Our instance is hosted on the data servers of the RPTU as part of the university-wide research data infrastructure. You can reach it via https://elab.rptu.de. It is used (and the support paid for) by all members of Spin+X.
Documentation and Manuals
- Link to the official user guide
- A series of video tutorials can be found on the media server of the University of Duesseldorf.
Or made by the developer.
Accounts and Login
Login is through shibboleth, the central university login service of RPTU provided by the RHRZ. Therefore you should always log in with your RPTU account through the "Login through your Institution" button, see image.
If your account was already created by a group admin (you have received an email), you will directly be assigned to the right team and can start using everything. If that has not happened, you will land in the "default" team on login, please contact a sysadmin to assign you correctly.
If you do not have an RPTU account (which should be the exception) and cannot use shibboleth to login, you can register an account directly on the platform. In this case, put in your data and choose a **secure** password and select the team you want to join (group). Your account will be active as soon as a team admin has confirmed it. Afterwards, you can log in directly with your email and password in the "ignore" part of the image.
Always log in with your personal account before generating content in eLab! Like in a paper labbook, it is very important to document who did an entry. In eLab, changes are automatically logged and linked to the user who made them. The only exception to this should be automatically generated content, see next.
The manual registration procedure will be used in combination with the API (application programming interface) to create non-personalized accounts that automatically generate content in eLab. For example, a measurement software could auto-fill the settings for each measurement using an account "Chamber Something". We will need to test and implement this in the future.
Settings
In the user settings, you should enable display of the team experiments and templates (see image), so you can see the entries of your colleagues in the list and use their templates for convenience.
Groups
Groups are an organizational structure of the eLabFTW system comparable to our chamber teams. The system is very flexible, you can be a member of any number of groups. Creation and user assignment of groups can be easily done by the admins if needed. If you want to be added to a specific group, just contact them.
Groups are an additional way to organize the Team into subunits, but do not have significant importance, since the principle access policy should be "open to all the Team".
Responsible Persons
Currently, the administration is handled by the following persons:
Group Admins
The Research Groups are represented in eLabFTW as "Teams".
The Team Admins are the respective PIs, plus the responsible persons that they might assign.