Projects
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How to Create a Project
You can create a project from either the action slideout on the right or you can use the Add Project button in the left-hand slideout.
The first step is to provide a name that will easily identify this project.
Please note that this name will also later be used to identify resource groups. Loome will use both the project name and your chosen account to create the resource group name and resources deployed to these resource groups.
You can also add a description to provide further information.
The next step is to choose an affiliation from the dropdown. (You can manage affiliations following our guide here.)
Data Classification Level
On this next page, you can choose the data classification level.
The data classification level will ensure that the data in your project is managed properly behind the scenes.
You can choose from:
| Data Classification Level | Description |
|---|---|
| Restricted | Confidential information requiring the highest level of security and privacy protection. |
| Internal | Confidential information that can be shared within the organization on a need to know basis. |
| Public | Information may be published and shared freely. |
Account
Then we can select the account that will be used for this project. This account will link your project to your Azure subscription and region so that any spending will be through this account.
Loome will create tags in your Azure Resource Group for all resources created in this project and its resource group such as ‘Loome-Module : Assist’, ‘Loome-Project : PROJECT NAME’, and ‘Loome-Account : ACCOUNT NAME’.
If you don’t have an existing account, don’t see the one you want to use, or if you want to create a new account, you can open a service request to organize this with your research infrastructure team. If you are an administrator, you can follow our steps in this link to create an account.
After you have selected an account you will have the option to add collaboration tools and document libraries to this project.
If you would like to add collaboration tools, select ‘Yes’.
If an administrator has set the collaboration settings to ‘No Collaboration’ you will not have this option to add collaboration tools and document libraries. Please contact your administrator to discuss your settings if you would like to use collaboration tools.
Loome will then check that the account agent has been configured to manage Microsoft Teams.
Budget
You can then choose the total spending budget for this project. You can also set alerts by selecting a percentage of the budget and Loome will send you an alert when that percentage has been reached.
If you have selected an account with an unlimited budget, you will first need to choose between an unlimited budget or limited budget for this project.
- If you choose Unlimited, there is no spending limit and there are no consumption alerts.
- If you specify a limit, you can set a spending budget for this project and specify when you want Loome to alert you and others.
If you have chosen an account with a budget or chose to specify a limit you can type in your budget in the Total Budget field.
The maximum budget that you can choose is dependent on the account you have selected. If your account had a maximum value such as $10,000, it would be the maximum value that you can choose here.
If the account had an unlimited budget, it would be reflected on this page and you can move on to the next step.
In the image below, the maximum budget is $1,000 due to the account I selected on the previous page.
Then select your Alert Recipients. These recipients are the people that should be notified if the project passes your selected budget.
When your budget spend reaches the alert percentage, Loome will send an email to these users.
Your account may have pre-selected email addresses that have been automatically added to this field. These have been added by the account creator as required alert recipients and cannot be removed.
Please note that an alert threshold is only a notification and not a limit, so if a budget exceeds your set threshold Loome cannot stop a workstation from continuing to use this account. You will need to log in and stop the workstation manually. Learn more about workstations here.
You can then choose Alerts. These are the percentages that when met will trigger an alert to be sent to the users you have selected above.
In the image below, you can see that there has been pre-set alert thresholds. These have been selected by the account creator and cannot be deleted. When the budget has been spent and reaches the selected percentage, for example at 50% therefore $5000 in the image below, an email will be sent to all added recipients.
You cannot delete these account set fields, but you can add more alerts and recipients. The alerts and recipients set at the project level can be deleted.
The blue icon highlighted in the image below displays which values have been provided by the account.
Project Members
The next step is choosing whether to add members to this project, as well as their roles. These users will be able to find this project when they log in on their home page. This project will be hidden from all other users except administrators (administrators can see all projects).
The person who created this project will automatically be added as the project owner. You cannot delete your own email from this role.
When you add members to this project, you can choose from these project specific roles:
| Project Level Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Project Owners | A project owner can deploy and use resources, and manages that specific project. The person that creates the project automatically belongs to the project owner role. |
| Project Contributors | This user can deploy and use resources, but cannot add other users to a project. |
| Project Readers | Users with this role can use resources, but cannot deploy them or make changes to a project. |
These roles won’t allow these users access to any other projects except the project you have added them to.
If you add an email address that has not been added to your Loome Assist tenant before, this user will be added to the ‘Consumer’ role in your Loome Assist tenant as well as the project level role you have selected here. This user will receive an email invitation that includes a link to Loome Assist.Learn more about application roles here.
To add a user to a role, type in their email address into your selected role. If you are adding more than one email address, you can separate them with a semi-colon, and then click on add.
Once you complete these fields, you can click Create in the bottom right corner to save this project.
Loome will create tags in your Azure Resource Group for all resources created in this project and its resource group such as ‘Loome-Module : Assist’, ‘Loome-Project : PROJECT NAME’, and ‘Loome-Account : ACCOUNT NAME’.
Your Project is Created
You can then view this project on the ‘My Projects’ page. On each project card you can view the description and spend. It will display the spend of a project and whether it is an unlimited budget, or if it is currently over or under budget.
The budget usage will display on the project card. It will display whether the project is in budget, over budget or if there is an error.
If there is an error and it cannot retrieve the spend, Loome will show a warning on the project card when you hover over the error status and it will note that the agent is unavailable.
In the image below, you can see each status for the budget usage.
The first project is in its budget, the second project is over its budget and the third project could not retrieve its budget spend.
Managing a Project
If you click into a project, you can view its workstations and data repositories as shown in the sample project we have created below. You can refresh either of these using the refresh button in the top right corner of each section.
View Workstations and Data Repositories
You will be able to view any workstations and data repositories that have been added to this project on this project page. Read about how to add a data repository using our guide in this link. And learn how to add a workstation using the guide in this link.
You can see that we have added a workstation and data repository to this project in the image below.
Spend and Usage
You can view how much of the budget has been spent at the top right corner of this page.
The spend of any deleted solution collection resources will still be noted in the total project spend.
Project Actions
You can use the slideout on the right of the page to add workstations and data repositories, or to return to the home page.
Click Add Workstation to add a workstation from the slideout.
Click Add Data Repository to add a data repository from the slideout.
Click Go to My Projects to return to the home page.
If you have enabled collaboration in a project, you can also view the collaboration options.
You can click on each button in the slideout when it is not expanded as a shortcut.
How to Edit a Project
Edit a project via the Edit button on a project card or from the project page in the right-hand slideout.
You can then edit the project using the tabs on the left.
You cannot change the name and account of a project as they are linked to other areas of Loome Assist. You also may not be able to change the data classification if an administrator has restricted this change. Learn more about data classifications here.
Please note that you cannot edit a project’s membership in the Loome Assist Teams app and can edit it via Loome Assist as shown above.
The Project Slide-out and Homepage
Your homepage will display all projects that are available to you.
You can also select a project from the left-hand project slideout. It will display all available projects.
You can also create a project from this slideout.
