User Account (Registration, Log-In, Personal Layer Management)

Introduction

Connect

Here you can:

Create an account
Log in to your account
Reset your password if you forgot it
Delete your account

After registering and activating your account, you should be able to log in with your email and password.

Register

Here you can create an account for the citiwatts platform. After submitting the form, you will receive an email to activate your account. With your account, you will be able to save your progress.

Recover

If you ever forget your password, you can recover it under this menu. Please set a new password afterward.

The sharing layer functionality allows users to upload, share, and manage personal layers within the platform. Users can update shared layers as needed.

1. Upload a Personal Layer

Login with your username and password.
Navigate to the Files section.
Select your layer file.
Select the appropriate layer type.
Enter email addresses of users you want to share the layer with (separate multiple emails with a semicolon ;).
Click Upload Layer.

A confirmation dialog appears, asking: "Are you sure you want to share the personal layer?"
Click Upload and Share to proceed, or Cancel to abort.

3. Manage Shared Layers

After uploading, layers appear in the file list with the following attributes:
- Filename: Name of the uploaded file.
- Layer Type: Category of the layer.
- Size: File size.
- Share Status:
  - Shared: Visible to specified users.
  - Private: Accessible only to the uploader.
Actions available:
- Edit (✏️): Modify sharing settings.
- Download (⬇️): Retrieve the file.
- Delete (🗑️): Remove the file from the system.

4. Update an Existing Shared Layer

Click the Edit (✏️) icon next to a shared layer.
Modify sharing settings.
Click Update Layer to save changes.
Click Cancel to discard changes.

Notes

Shared layers grant access to specified users for viewing layer.
If the user is not found, the layer stays Private.
Users can change a layer from Private to Shared and vice versa by adding or removing email addresses.
The system tracks disk space usage for uploaded layers.

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Final remarks

How To Cite

citiwatts team, in citiwatts wiki, User account (2025)

Authors And Reviewers

Written by the OpenGIS4ET / citiwatts team and namely by: EASILab - HES-SO Marie-Esther Mabillard

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 International License.

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Acknowledgement

The project “Open Geographic Information System for Energy Transition” (OpenGIS4ET, Project Number 111 786) has been supported by partners of the ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems and Mission Innovation through the Joint Call 2020. As such, this project has received funding from the

Energy Technology Development and Demonstration (EUDP), Denmark (Project No.: 64021-6026),
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany (Project No.: 03EI4050B),
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Austria (Project No.: 889031),
Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), Switzerland (Project No.: 502364).

The OpenGIS4ET project builts on the H2020 Hotmaps Project.

For more details please refer to the About page of this wiki.

Disclaimers

The content and views expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinion of the ERA-Net SES initiative. Any reference given does not necessarily imply the endorsement by ERA-Net SES.

The citiwatts toolbox is a living platform: As the research project as well as its sister and follow-up projects evolve, (new) functionalities are refined and bugs are addressed and solved. The toolbox is hosted in two environments: the development server and the production server. The development server has the most up-to-date version, with most of issues and bugs solved, but it might be unstable as developers keep working on it daily. The production server instead is a stable environment.