Admin

Greetings Nexus Administrators! This topic describes how to build your Enterprise storage architecture. Using this topic, you will be able to:

  • Invite users

  • Create user groups

  • Grant permissions

  • Create attributes and validate attribute values

  • Create object types and and associate them with attributes

  • Create tasks and associate them with attributes

  • Create one or more workspaces

  • Configure workspace library storage, project storage and upload files

  • Link Nexus projects to Micromine Origin & Beyond projects

Application Architecture

The Nexus application architecture is shown in the following diagram:

Tenancy

What you need to know about your Nexus "Tenancy"

  • Your corporate database, all files and metadata are stored at this level

  • Users and User groups are managed at this level

  • At least one Workspace is created at this level1

  • Workspace permissions are set at this level

  • Object Types, Attributes and Tasks are configured at this level

  • Background Jobs (for Admin) are created, scheduled and run at this level

Workspace

What you need to know about the "Workspace"

  • A single workspace or multiple workspaces can be created1

  • Each workspace has its own Library storage

  • Object types, Attributes and Tasks are selected per workspace

  • Workspace permissions can be set for users and user groups

  • A workspace may contain one or more Projects1

Projects

What you need to know about a "Nexus project"

  • Projects inherit the Object Types, Attributes and Tasks of the workspace

  • One Nexus project can be linked to multiple Micromine Origin & Beyond projects

  • Project storage is completely independent of workspace library storage

Tasks

What you need to know about tasks

  • Tasks are configured globally with their own attributes

  • Tasks are selected at the workspace level1

  • Files from either workspace library storage or project storage may be attached to tasks

1Depending on your subscription plan.

Subscription and Deployment Options

For information about Nexus deployment options & subscription plans, click on the following links: