how to start the first job after instaling cook?

[fhorn3d]

I have installed the cook environment.
Now I want to start a first job, but I have no idea how to do?
What are the first steps I have to do for this?

Is there an easys step by step tutorial for beginners to start a recipe?
Thank you.

[gjcope]

Hi,

Please take a look at: https://smithsonian.github.io/dpo-cook/docs/getting-started/ and the other associated links on this page.

If you have the cook server up and running on your machine, you can access the Cook UI via localhost at whatever port you configured when setting up. Also make sure that whatever applications you will be using with Cook are correctly configured in tools.json and that you have created a user id in clients.json.

Once everything is configured you can access the web UI as described above, select the recipe you want to run, and set your files and parameters for that recipe. For writing new recipes, please take a look at: https://smithsonian.github.io/dpo-cook/docs/writing-recipes/.

If you have any other specific questions or issues please let us know!

[fhorn3d]

how do I create a new user id in the clients.json? I left what was written in there. Maybe this is the problem.

[gjcope]

It's ok if you leave what is there as long as you use one if those IDs in the 'Client ID' field in the upper right of the web UI.

[fhorn3d]

Okay, great. Now it works.
Last question for now: how do I bring in my files eg a highpolymeshfile for recipe multi ?

[gjcope]

Just drag and drop the file onto the ui field and it will populate with the file location. For non-file settings you just type the appropriate value in the field.

[fhorn3d]

I have problems while processing, there is an error 'client id mismatch'. Is there any documentation how to use the client manager?

[gjcope]

The client ID should match one of the GUIDs in you clients.json config file. If you are using the default template values, try 6867a59e-0ec5-411d-a93e-4f8cd9098823 instead of 'Bob' for your ID.