WindsPT User Manual (v0.4)

Manual for work in progress »

The WindsP Web application supports the activities of the preparation and execution of the experiments (field campaigns) included in NEWA — New European Wind Atlas Joint Programme, in particular, the Double hill experiment at Perdigão.

The last version WindsP v0.4 (AKA WindsPT) was built for the windscanner.pt infrastructure — “Infraestrutura Nacional WindScanner (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-022207)”.

https://windscannerpt.fe.up.pt

- Introduction

WindsPT supports the work of Campaign managers and participant institutions from planning and preparation to execution and dissemination of the results.

The objective of this Web application is to be a support tool for the design and management of field campaigns, and an archive of all the relevant information linked to them. Campaign participants find in WindsPT the location of the stations and equipment used to collect experimental data, the list of relevant events, and the documentation produced.

WindsPT includes the following functionalities:

Collaboration intention surveys: to collect partners' intention of collaboration while building a categorization structure and involved equipment information.
General purpose experiment information: general information that will be useful for all experiment participants, such as: location, contact, dates, topography and roughness maps.
Collaboration intentions' summaries by experiment: one page summary of all resources for one experiment: equipment, wind flow models and personnel.
Field stations installation and equipment: a functionality, allowing the Campaign Manager to create stations and equip the tower stations with the equipment required.¹⁾
Equipment inventory: the data base of all the equipment by: category and manufacturer, with datasheets and manuals.
Logbook: record of campaign events of different categories and diverse visibilities: Issue, Schedule, Installation, Social, and more.
Document manager: management of a campaign “Dropbox” with folders and files related with the campaign.
Timelines: management of campaign staff and equipment.
Administrative management functionalities: management of the whole platform: user accounts, equipment, logbook events, documents, wind flow models data curation.

The last WindsPT build is available for testing proposes at https://windscannerpt.fe.up.pt. To use the functionalities available, it is required to login using one the credentials available for different roles:

[USER] — participant with restricted access to the platform; user: “staff@uporto.eu” / password: “test”
[MANAGER] — administrator with full access to the platform; user: “admin@uporto.eu” / password: “test”
[CURATOR] — curator with access to the data curation functionalities; user: “curator@uporto.eu” / password: “test”

- User roles

WindsPT is used by different groups of users with different roles:

Visitor: a generic user that can access only publicly available contents.
Researcher: authenticated user that can access general information and manage its own account settings and profile.
Participant: authenticated user that participates in one or more campaigns.
Project Manager: authenticated user that manages a project, defining its experiments (field campaigns), participant institutions and corresponding managers.
Institution Manager: authenticated user that has permission to manage the institution, for example, answer collaborations' intention surveys or add participants.
Experiment Manager: authenticated user with access to privileged information about the experiment he or she is responsible for (such as collaborations' summaries) and is also able to manage experiment's related information (such as field station's configuration).
Data Curator: authenticated user that has the quality control responsibilities over campaign information (e.g. equipment models or wind models).
Administrator: authenticated user that has global platform management permissions, such as user and accounts management.

- Functionalities

The platform functionalities are grouped in the following modules:

- Campaign profile

Contains the platform core functionalities. Each campaign has one profile.

- Info

The profile info page shows the campaign objectives, dates, location and contact information.

See Perdigão campaign info page »

- Logbook

The objective of the logbook is to register the day-to-day activity while the campaign is in operation. Participants can create events separated in categories and associate files and photos with them. The categories can be modified by the manager and new ones can be added.

See Perdigão campaign logbook »

- Stations

The stations' page shows the map with all the stations organized by category and subcategory. The same information is also displayed in table format. In this page is also possible to export the visualized information in KML and CSV formats.

See Perdigão stations »

- Station Profile

In the station profile, it is possible to obtain all the station information, including documents, datasets and photos.

See one Perdigão station example »

- Personnel Timeline

The personnel timeline allows for quickly know the people involved in the campaign, the periods in which each one was in the field.

See Perdigão personnel timeline »

- Stations Timeline

With the Personnel timeline, it is possible to check the time periods in which each station was installed, operated, and uninstalled.

See Perdigão stations timeline »

- Search

The information on the equipment categories, manufacturers and models, used in all campaigns and curated, is available for all participants peruse.

- Search all

The search all page enables to search across the platform using text queries.

See the search page »

- Campaigns

The campaigns page lists all the campaigns grouped by project.

See the campaigns page »

- Equipment Inventory

Below is an example of the equipment models used. The equipment can be filtered by “Category”, “Subcategory” and “Name” in the filter box provided.

See the equipment inventory »

- Equipment Model

Users can add datasheets, manuals, photos and other files to an equipment model.

See one equipment model »

- Users

Find all the users registered on the platform on the users page.

See the users page »

- Management dashboards

The functionalities available to each roles are grouped in the role dashboard.

- User dashboard

The User dashboard allows the users to quickly find the campaigns in which they are participating; their sent, received and deleted messages; and update their profile settings.

See the dashboard for a Perdigão participant» [USER]

- Institution dashboard

Within the institution dashboard, its manager can find the project the institution is collaborating in. The institution devices and users, and update the institution's settings.

See the dashboard for U.Porto» [MANAGER]

- Campaign dashboard

The institution campaign can be used by its managers to view summaries about the institution's surveys answers. This dashboard can also be used to manage the campaign stations, participants and managers. Similarly, other information existing in the campaign profiled page can be updated here: about, maps, useful links, and overlays.

See the dashboard for Perdigão» [MANAGER]

- Project dashboard

In the project dashboard, the project summary information can be visualized, e.g., status and summary, and its assets managed, e.g., campaigns, users, institutions, about.

See the dashboard for a NEWA» [MANAGER]

- Admin dashboard

The Admin dashboard can be user can be used by administrators and curators, to manage all the information used in multiple projects and campaigns, e.g., equipment, windmodels and personnel categories. The same platform is used to manage users, approve, suspend, etc.

See the dashboard for admin» [MANAGER]

- Surveys

- First survey

The first survey is used to collect each institution participation intention for each campaign in a given project. The survey asks about the categories and quantities of equipment to be made available, wind models to be used and quantities of personnel.