Unity OnDemand File Browser

Unity OnDemand provides a simple and convenient way to manage your Unity files with a graphical user interface (GUI) rather than the command line interface (CLI), making it a great option for less experienced CLI users. The OnDemand interface can replace your terminal, FTP client, and JupyterHub.

Unity OnDemand allows you to:

• Navigate the Unity filesystem
• Copy, move, create, and delete files and directories (folders)
• Upload and download files from/to your local machine
• Edit text files
• View images
• Open a given directory in an interactive session on a compute node

Part 1: Open the Unity OnDemand File Explorer

Unity OnDemand allows you to sign in on your browser using your organization’s identity provider, so you don’t need to install SSH/FileZilla, configure SSH, or set up any public and private keys. To open the Unity OnDemand file explorer, follow the steps outlined below:

1. Login to Unity OnDemand with your organization’s identity provider.
2. From the top menu, click Files. A dropdown menu opens.
3. Click Home Directory

Your Unity file explorer Home Directory appears, which displays your files and directories:

Part 2: Manage and navigate files

To interact with the Unity filesystem, click on the directory, image, or file name that you want to open or edit. For example:

• To open a directory, click on its name.
• To go back to a parent directory, click on different parts of your current working directory to go back. For example, with /home/simonleary_umass_edu as my current working directory, I can go back to /home by clicking on it.
• To edit a text file, click on its name.
• To view an image, click on its name.

The Unity OnDemand interface also includes a taskbar at the top of the page with options such as:

• Open in Terminal to open your current working directory in an interactive session.
• Refresh to refresh you current working directory.
• New File to add a new file to your current working directory.
• New Directory to add a new directory.
• Upload and Download to upload or download files from/to your local machine.
• Copy/Move to copy or move files to another location.
• Delete to delete a file or directory.

Click on any one of the taskbar options to complete that action.