What is in this Article?

1. Akselos Portal for New Users

2. Akselos Portal Data Structure

The Akselos Portal is a web-based interface that serves as the front end of the Akselos Cloud. It allows you to:

• Manage your Digital Twin data from anywhere, at any time. 
• Monitor the analysis process, training, or solving jobs with real-time.
• Collaborate with your team on the same asset since the data can be shared instantly.

Akselos Portal, Akselos Modeler and Akselos Cloud connection

1. Akselos Portal for New Users

When users log in to Akselos Portal for the first time after registering an account, the Portal interface is as shown below.

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Figure 1.1. The first glance at the Akselos Portal interface after logging in the first time

After logging in to the Portal, new users will see this message on the main screen “Welcome to the Akselos Portal! You currently don't have access to any collections. Please ask your organization administrator to grant you access. Once granted access, you can reload this page to see the collections.”

Akselos secures confidential data seriously. To ensure a higher level of data protection, new users cannot access any materials on Akselos Portal without the permission of any administrators. By contacting the organization’s administrators, users may obtain one of the three types of access, which decides how users will see and use the interface of Akselos Portal. These accesses will be described in detail in the next section.

Basically, users are always in the Root Contents tab first after logging in to the Portal. If users have administrator’s permissions, they can see all the organizations or collections that they have already had access to.

Figure 1.2. Root Contents layout of Akselos Portal

In the User Settings tab, users can review the information of their accounts, and sign out every device that they have used to log in to Akselos Portal.

Figure 1.3. User Settings layout

There are two types of authentications in Akselos Modeler, managed via Password or Access Token. By clicking on the Show Current Token button, a message will appear on the screen to quickly guide users how to get authentication in Akselos Modeler via Access Token.

Figure 1.4. Obtaining Access Token

In Akselos Modeler, users have to authenticate their accounts to be able to interact with Akselos Portal.

Figure 1.5. Getting Authentication in Akselos Modeler

2. Akselos Portal Data Structure

2.1. Organization

The organizations on Akselos Portal are the workspaces that Akselos creates for different groups of users. If you are an individual partner or a company partner who decides to buy our licenses and become our customer, we would create a specific organization for your own business.

 Figure 2.1. An Organization

If an organization is the first order of data structure, then the second-order would be a collection, a repository, and a folder. Each type of data in the second-order has its own specific purposes such as storing a set of Digital Twin models or projects documents

Figure 2.2. Data structure inside of an organization

2.2. Collection

The collection contains data from a Digital Twin model. In this space, users can run post-processing applets (in the Tools tab on the left Menu) and monitor any jobs running (in the Jobs sub-tab on the left Menu) in the collection.

The data in a collection include:

• collection.json: a file in JSON format, which defines general information of a collection such as physics, variable dimensions.
• components: a folder stores all components imported into the collection.
• ports: a folder stores all ports of the collection.
• aks_files: a folder stores assembled models.
• .log: every single change committed by any account will be tracked and shown on this site. 
• .training data: components training datasets are stored here.

Figure 2.3. Data structure of a collection

There are some data that are fixed of one default collection. In addition, there may be more other data depending on the specific project (eg: files containing input, output data, images, the standard of the project,...)

2.3. Repository

A repository is a space that can store any kind of data, materials, contents not relating to collection data. They could be a slide, a document, a video, etc. These data must be less than 4GB.

Figure 2.4. Inside of Repository

2.4. Folder

A folder is a space that can store collections, repositories, and sub-folders. These items are the third order in the data structure.

Figure 2.5. Inside of Folder