Your user account


To use Ashes, you need to create an account. You can use your account to log in to Ashes in any computer, store models thanks to the Cloud storage functionality, use Cloud sharing to share your models with other Ashes users, use our Cloud computing capabilities or ask questions in our forum here https://www.simis.io/Q-and-A/.

You can access your account from the Simis website going to https://www.simis.io/account/ or by clicking on the  icon from the Starting window and selecting Show profile, as shown in the figure below:



Clicking on Show profile or going to the https://www.simis.io/account/ will bring you to your user account. From your user account you can access the following information:

1 General

1.1 My profile

General information about your account. Here you can change your credentials and set a nickname to be used in the forum. Note that if no nickname is given, you will appear anonymous by default.

1.2 License

Information about your license and cloud storage capacity.

2 Cloud

2.1 Cloud storage

This section gives you access to the models that are stored in the Ashes cloud. For more info, see Cloud storage. You can also share your cloud models from this page. For more info, see Cloud sharing.

2.2 Cloud computing

This section summarizes your current status on cloud computing. Here you will see a list of all the cloud batches tat you have run so far, as well as your total cloud computing time and spendings. If you do not have access to the cloud computing features yet, get in touch with us at support@simis.io.

Note: The spending shown here should correspond to your use of cloud computing, but the actual cost is what will be displayed in the billsent to you at the end of the month. If you are unsure of what your spendings are, please get in touch at support@simis.io

3 Company account

Note that you will only have this section if you have an Industry or an Education license and are Administrator or Moderator of your company account (see the Manage users section below).

3.1 Data

This section enables you to change the information about your institution

3.2 Invite users

This section enables you to add new users to your company group. You add a user by sending them an invitation with a message that you write to their email address, that they can accept or ignore. Opening the Invite users section shows the following window on your browser:



The functionalities of the different parts of this window are explained below:
  1. Email addresses: type in one or many email addresses of the users that you want to add to the group
  2. Message: this is the message that will be displayed in the invitation they will receive
  3. Send invitation: once the invitation is ready, click this button to send the invitation to all the email addresses you entered
  4. Pending invitations: here you will see the invitations you have sent but that have not been accepted yet.
Once the invitatios have been sent, you will get the following message:


Note:
  • if an email address is not associated to an active user of Ashes, they wll still receive the invitation. However, they will only appear in the group once they create an account
  • users in the group can have different roles (see the Manage users section below). By default, new users are added as Members



3.3 Manage users

In this section you can see the users in your group. You can also change their roles within the group o remove them. Opening the Manage users section opens the following window in your browser:


Here you can see a list with the users that are in the group and their email addresses. In addition, each user has a role within the group, that you can see by clicking on the Role button. Clicking this button will open a dropdown menu with 4 options:
  • Administrator: Grants the user administrator rights to edit the company account, manage and invite users.
  • Moderator: Grants the user moderator rights to manage and invite users but not change their rights
  • Member: Makes the user a member of the user group without any administative right
  • Remove: Removes the user from the group.