Publish To Cloud dialog
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The Publish to cloud... dialog uploads the model you have open to an Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP) server, so that you and the people you invite can run it from a web browser. To open it, select Publish to cloud... from the File menu (Ctrl+Shift+P).
The dialog was rewritten in Analytica 7.2. It works with both generations of ACP server: ACP4, the current platform, where you sign in through your browser (with Google, Microsoft, or an e-mail address and password), and ACP3, the previous platform, where you sign in with an e-mail address and password inside the dialog. The dialog recognizes which kind of server you have named and adapts. If you are looking for the dialog as it was in Analytica 7.1 and earlier, select that release in the bar above.
The Server field
The Server field names the ACP server you are publishing to. It starts as Lumina's public server, acp.analytica.com. If your organization runs its own ACP server, type its host name (for example acp.mycompany.com) and press Enter. As soon as the server answers, the line under the field tells you what it found:
- Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP4) — server name — a current-generation server. The dialog shows its sign-in button, or goes straight to the publish form if you are already signed in.
- Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP3) — a previous-generation server. The dialog shows the e-mail and password form.
- A message in red — the server could not be used. The message distinguishes the cases: your computer has no internet connection, there is no server by that name, the server is not responding, the secure connection failed, your network proxy requires a sign-in, the server reported an error, or the host answered but is not an ACP server at all. Open Details under the message for the underlying error code when you contact support.
Every server that has answered as an ACP server is remembered. Click the arrow at the right end of the field to choose one of them; each is tagged ACP4 or ACP3. The × button beside the field removes the current server from the list (acp.analytica.com always comes back).
The dialog remembers the last server, account and project you published to, and opens with them selected the next time.
Signing in to an ACP4 server
An ACP4 server signs you in through your web browser, the same way the ACP web site does, so the dialog has a single button: Sign in or create an account.
Pressing it opens the server's sign-in page in your default browser, where you sign in with Google, with Microsoft, or with an e-mail address and password, or create a new account. The dialog waits until you finish; you can press Cancel next to the waiting message to give up.
Once you have signed in, the browser page tells you to return to Analytica, and the dialog shows the publish form with Signed in as your e-mail at the top. Analytica keeps the sign-in (in the Windows Credential Manager, not in the model), so the next time you open the dialog for this server you are signed in already. Press Sign out to end it.
If you create a new account from this button, the server gives you an individual account of your own the first time you sign in.
Signing in to an ACP3 server
An ACP3 server asks for your ACP e-mail address and password in the dialog itself.
- E-mail and Password: your ACP account. If you have signed in to this server before, the e-mail address is filled in.
- Remember my password on this computer: when checked, the password is stored in the Windows Credential Manager and the dialog signs you in without asking the next time. When unchecked, only the e-mail address is kept.
- Forgot your password?: the server e-mails you a new password.
- Create an account: opens the ACP sign-up page in your browser. Use the same e-mail address as for your Analytica license, then come back to the dialog to sign in.
If the server requires you to choose a new password (for example after a reset), the dialog asks for the new password and its confirmation before continuing. Sign out forgets the stored password.
Once you are signed in, the same publish form appears as for an ACP4 server; here with a group account and one of its projects selected:
Choosing where to publish
- Account: the ACP accounts you belong to, each with its plan type. An individual account has one folder of models; a group account has projects. When you have only one account this is shown as text rather than a drop-down.
- Project: for a group account, the project to publish into. The line beneath the model name says what your role in that project allows and the largest model the account's plan accepts. Projects in which your role does not allow publishing, such as Reviewer, cannot be selected as the destination:
- Model name: the name the model will have on the server; it starts as the model's file name. The .ana extension is added for you.
- Overwrite the model on the server: appears when a model with this name already exists in the chosen project. Check it to replace that model, or change the name.
- After publishing: what happens once the upload finishes — open the project folder in your browser, open the published model in your browser, or do nothing.
Publishing
Press Publish. The model is written as a single file with all of its linked modules embedded and uploaded; a progress bar shows the upload. Press Cancel (or Esc) during the upload to stop it.
When the upload is complete, the dialog confirms where the model went and offers two links: Open the model in the browser and Open the project folder. On an ACP4 server these links, and the After publishing action, open the browser already signed in as you, so you land on the model rather than on a login page.
Publish another returns to the form to publish the same model again, for example under another name or to another project; Close closes the dialog.
Manage published models
Manage published models... on the File menu opens the model folder of the server you published to most recently in your browser, signed in when the dialog holds a sign-in for that server.
Where your sign-in is kept
Nothing about your sign-in is stored in the model. ACP4 sessions and remembered ACP3 passwords are kept in the Windows Credential Manager for your Windows account, under entries beginning with Analytica/. Signing out from the dialog removes them.