Common workspace for multiple users

KNIME Analytics Platform
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Dear all,

I am installing KNIME on workstations that are accessed by multiple users. I like them to all have a common default workspace to start from.

I tried putting an absolute path to this into config.ini (‘osgi.instance.area.default’), but this does not seem to have an effect.

What is the recommended procedure to do this?

Thanks a lot,
Martin

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Try to put workspace in shared folder. In other case every user will place it inside their profiles.

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Hi @MartinSchorb,

To clarify: Do you want users to share a workspace or do you want to change the initial content of the workspace that each user owns individually?

Best,
Stefan

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Hi Stefan,

I would like to show each user an identical initial workspace with some pre-defined workflows. At NEUBIAS, Jan mentioned that it should be possible to set the default workspace that is shown to every user at first startup using a system-wide configuration. I could then point it to a shared directory with the workflows.

Best,
Martin

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You can do a setup in such a way that people access one KNIME Analytics Platform installation and replace the contents of knime-workspace.zip in that installation (on macOS it’s in KNIME X.Y.Z/Contents/Eclipse).

We don’t support pointing to a different location for this file, so way to go would be for the users to share one installation with your custom knime-workspace.zip.

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Hi Stefan,

This works! Using the suggested approach, the contents of any newly-created workspace are defined.
Thanks for the hint.

In fact, I also found a way to provide a given directory in the list of suggested recent workspaces.
I could achieve it by setting “RECENT_WORKSPACES=” in configuration/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs