4 title: "Workbench 2 migration"
7 Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
9 SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
12 Beginning in version 2.7, Arvados now defaults to a new web application, referred to as "Workbench 2". This is a major step in the migration from the classic web application, referred to as "Workbench 1". Workbench 1 should be considered deprecated and suppport for the Workbench 1 application will be dropped in a future Arvados release.
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16 Workbench 2 is the new Workbench web application that replaces Workbench 1. Workbench 2 is being built based on user feedback, and has feature parity with Workbench 1. Workbench 2 has a modern look and feel and offers many advanced features and performance enhancements over the previous Workbench application.
18 To facilitate migration, Arvados may have both Workbench applications installed and have a dropdown menu option in the user menu to switch between versions.
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22 Workbench 2 is stable and recommended for general use. However, if you find that you need something in Workbench 1, you can easily switch back:
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26 Some major improvements of Workbench 2 include:
30 * More responsive, only loads data needed for display
31 * More familiar user interface, modeled on the file explorer of MacOS and Windows.
32 * Advanced search capabilities
36 * Expanded informational columns
37 * Expanded filtering options
38 * Right side informational panel providing details about selected item without navigating away from the project
39 * Support for adding and querying user-supplied metadata properties on Projects
41 h2. Collection browsing
43 * Able to browse collections with millions of files
44 * Support for adding and querying user-supplied metadata properties on Collections
45 * Support for viewing past versions of a collection
47 h2. User and Group management
49 * Able to create user groups through the GUI
50 * Able to add/view/remove members of user groups, and what permissions are shared with the group
51 * Able to add/view/remove permissions shared with individual users