In Mobius, you can manage key settings that shape how you work and collaborate. This guide explains how to access and adjust your account settings, workspace settings, and user profile. Use it to keep your organization’s data, permissions, and impact calculations up to date and consistent. To accomplish this, this article covers the following questions:
How to manage account settings?
How to manage workspace settings?
How to manage your user profile?
Feel like you're missing information? This article is connected to the following articles; check them out if you want to learn more:
On setting the goal and scope of your assessment
On the LCIA phase of LCA and LCIA methods
On the LCI phase of LCA and LCI databases
On selecting corresponding methods and datasbases in Mobius
On your subscription & payment
In Mobius, there are three pages where you can access, view, and manage settings related to your account, workspace, and user profile. The following sections explore each one.
How to manage account settings?
In the following section we explain several important pages related to your Account settings, in the same order as they are found in Mobius:
Users
Roles
Permissions
Billing & Subscription
Account details
First, access your account settings by navigating to the bottom left of your screen. Click on your Account name, and find the settings in the overview (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Accessing your account settings in Mobius.
What is the Users tab?
What is the Users tab?
As an Account Admin, you can view and manage who has access to your Mobius account here.
Can’t view other users? Then you’re likely not an Account Admin. Contact Ecochain’s Helpdesk or check internally who the Admin is.
If your company is on a Business plan or higher, you can add & remove users here (Figure 2).
Want to assign or modify user roles? See the next section.
Figure 2: Accessing the users tab in Mobius.
What is the Roles tab?
What is the Roles tab?
Typically, this page is not relevant for your work in Mobius.
Similar to the Users tab, the Roles tab allows you to view the roles assigned to each user.
Additionally, if you’d like to add a user role (e.g., read-only), you create the role here.
Further specifications on the role are on the following tab – Permissions. The Roles & Permissions tabs are interconnected.
Contact the Ecochain Helpdesk if you are experiencing difficulties setting things up.
What are the Roles in Mobius?
What are the Roles in Mobius?
To fully understand the roles described below (Figure 3), see the Permissions section below for more context.
Admin (default)
Associated permissions: Account management, Workspace management, Billing management.
About: Can edit all account settings, create workspaces, and edit all workspace settings. Inherits workspace management for all new workspaces.
User (default)
Associated permissions: Account write, Workspace write
About: Can access the account and create new workspaces. Inherits workspace write permissions for all new workspaces, meaning they can change the name and impact settings but not change permissions or remove the workspace, unless they are the owner. Users who create their own workspace also have workspace management permissions for the respective workspace.
Read-only (set up manually - reach out for help!)
Associated permissions: Account read, Workspace read
About: Can access the account, but not create new workspaces or view settings. Users with this role inherit workspace read for all new workspaces, meaning they can view but not edit the contents of all workspaces.
User Workspace X (set up manually - reach out for help!)
Associated permissions: Account read
About: Can access the account, but not create new workspaces or view settings. This user role is useful for providing access to a specific, singular workspace, to allow the assigned user to see (Read) or work (Write) in these workspaces only, as opposed to having full access to the entire account and all workspaces.
Figure 3: Accessing Roles in Mobius.
What is the Permissions tab?
What is the Permissions tab?
View the permissions assigned to each role (Figure 4).
What are the Permissions in Mobius?
What are the Permissions in Mobius?
Account management: Can access the account and edit the account settings page. Can create new workspaces.
Account write: Can access the account, but not the account settings page. Can create new workspaces.
Account read: Can access the account, but not the account settings page. Cannot create new workspaces.
Workspace management: If a user has this permission on the account level, they will automatically obtain this permission for every new workspace. If a user has this permission for a specific workspace, they can access this workspace and edit its contents and manage the settings for "Name, Impact, Permissions, and Removal of workspace".
Workspace write: If the user has this permission on the account level, they will automatically obtain this permission for every new workspace. If the user has this permission for a specific workspace, they can access the workspace and edit its contents and manage the settings for Name and Impact. They can not view Permissions or Remove the workspace.
Workspace read: If the user has this permission on account level, they will automatically obtain this permission for every new workspace. If the user has this permission for a specific workspace, they can access the workspace and view its contents. A user with this permission can view products, lifecycles, start a comparison, open an existing scenario, view databases, etc. Can not make changes to settings or products; they will get an error if they try.
Figure 4: Accessing Permissions in Mobius.
What is the Billing & Subscriptions tab?
What is the Billing & Subscriptions tab?
If you're using Mobius through direct payment (credit card or SEPA), view & manage your subscription in this tab.
If you are an Ecochain customer through a quote or PO, contact your Customer Success manager for any account or subscription-related queries!
What is the Account details tab?
What is the Account details tab?
Here you can change the name of your account.
Enforce MFA for all users in your account, as an Account Admin.
As a User, you can leave an account.
Account Admins can also delete the account.
Figure 5: Accessing account details in Mobius.
How to manage workspace settings?
The following section details how to manage workspace settings. Consider watching the tutorial for an interactive & comprehensive overview!
What are workspace settings and why are they important?
What are workspace settings and why are they important?
Workspace settings determine how your LCA model is calculated. When you create a new workspace, the LCA impact method is set to the default settings - the Environmental Footprint Method. However, it is always good practice to make sure they align with the goal of your LCA, as they do affect your results. If the goal of your LCA is to comply with a specific standard, check to see their specifications around impact methods.
Aside from LCIA method- and database-related settings, this is also the place where you can edit the name of the workspace, as well as manage who has access to the respective workspace.
In short - this environment contains lots of important elements to consider!
Caution - Incorrect workspace settings: If your workspace settings are set incorrectly, your results may be wrong or missing entirely. Results may be incorrect because different methods use different methodologies for some impact categories (e.g., biogenic carbon is calculated differently across different methods). Impact results for objects may be missing or have zero impact because certain LCI databases (versions) are not always compatible with all impact methods.
How to manage workspace settings?
How to manage workspace settings?
Follow these steps to make adjustments:
1. Access the workspace menu: Navigate to the workspace menu to begin customizing your impact settings (Figure 1). Here you will find the workspace you are currently working in, as well as a list of the other workspaces your account is attached to.
Figure 1: Accessing the workspace menu in Mobius.
2. Navigate to the Workspace settings: Below the list of workspaces in your workspace menu, you will find your workspace settings. Click on this category - your workspace settings will appear on the right side of your dashboard (Figure 2). Your workspace settings consist of three different sections: name, settings, and permissions.
Figure 2: Accessing your workspace settings in Mobius.
Workspace name: Here, you can change the name of your workspace by clicking on the pen icon.
Impact settings: Impact settings are the most important aspect of your workspace settings. These settings determine how your results are calculated, related to LCIA methods and LCI databases. The components of the impact settings are described below.
Impact method sets (aka LCIA methods): Many impact calculation methods exist based on different scientific models for calculating environmental impacts. The default impact method is the Environmental Footprint Method, and this is a suitable standard for European products that are not construction-related. However, Mobius offers many other methods.
Pro tip - Choosing impact settings: Selecting the best impact method for your model can be confusing. Consider factors like the sector you’re operating in, the type of LCA you’re conducting, and how you’re using your results. Mobius offers the following impact methods:
EN15804+A2: The main method for the building and construction sector in Europe.
Environmental Footprint Method (EF v3.1): The primary method for consumer goods in Europe.
IPCC Method (2021): The main scientific method for carbon footprinting. Limitation: It only reports on CO2 impacts.
SBK Bepalingsmethode: The Dutch interpretation of the EN15804+A2 (above).
OpenLCA LCIA: Various other impact methods can be found here.
Impact assessment method: The selected impact assessment method will influence which LCI database can be used to calculate the footprint - not all methods are compatible with all databases. It is important to be consistent and use the same database throughout your LCA model.
Caution - Choosing impact assessment methods: It is important to be consistent with LCI database usage when selecting your impact assessment method. New database versions may use different calculation methods. This has implications for adding impact (via datasets) to your model and must be considered at that stage as well.
Preferred databases: In this dropdown, you can select the database (versions) you prefer to use throughout your LCAs. Your preferred databases will be preselected when working in the Database Search environment. For instance, if you select ecoinvent 3.8 as a preferred database in your workspace settings, this will be reflected in Database Search as only datasets from this preferred database version will be shown. Naturally, you can always add or remove preferred databases in your workspace settings, or you can change the filters in Database Search.
Pro tip - Database filtering: If you don’t know, or are unsure, of which database (version) to use, we recommend choosing the most recent version of Ecoinvent, when possible. The most recent version will have more options, more up-to-date, and more reliable datasets. You will find the most recent version of Ecoinvent at the top of the dropdown listing all currently available LCI databases in Mobius.
Normalization and weighting: Normalizing and weighting results means the results are converted to the same unit, allowing you to add them or compare them, for example. This is automatically set to none; leave it as such unless you have specific requirements. For instance, the Environmental Footprint method has the option to use the Single Score, the Dutch NMD Bepalingsmethode has the Milieukostenindicator (MKI) or Environmental Cost Indicator (ECI) in English.
Impact category: This is the default impact category that displays your results. Choose an impact category that focuses on the specific environmental aspects relevant to your study. Mobius provides a range of categories to choose from, allowing you to tailor your analysis accordingly. You can change the impact category at any time via the impact category switcher in the Product inventory view (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Changing the impact category displayed in the Product inventory.
Single score: The single score toggle affects normalization & weighting of impact categories. Leave it at the default setting (No) unless you have specific requirements.
Note - Configuring the single score: We offer various ‘types’ of Single Scores in Mobius, each one being method-specific. Below we show how to configure the two most used Single Scores - one is based on the Product Environmental Footprint Method, while the other is based on the Dutch NMD Bepalingsmethode. Configure your workspace settings as shown in Figure 4 and 5 if you’d like to view your total environmental impact in terms of the Single Score or the ECI respectively.
Figure 4: Configuring your workspace settings to view the environmental impact as a Single Score in Ecochain Mobius. For the ‘Normalizations and weighting’ dropdown, use the last option.
Figure 5: Configuring your workspace settings to view the environmental impact in terms of the Dutch ECI / MKI in Ecochain Mobius. Be mindful that currently, this configuration is only compatible with ecoinvent v3.6.
Exclude long-term impacts: Unless you have a specific reason to change this, leave this toggle untouched. The default is to exclude long-term environmental impacts (beyond a 100-year time horizon), as the uncertainty beyond this time frame is larger.
Save changes: Once you've adjusted your impact settings, remember to save your changes to apply them to your workspace.
Workspace permissions: This is where you can change the permissions of who can view or edit the workspace. This function is only relevant if you’re working in your account with multiple users, and is best left unchanged. Please reach out to us ([email protected]) in case of any questions or doubts regarding roles and permissions in your Mobius account & workspaces.
Workspace settings video tutorial
Workspace settings video tutorial
Watch Emma explain these concepts in our tutorial:
How to manage your user profile?
Access your user profile by clicking on the View Profile tab (Figure 1). In this environment, you can edit:
Your name
Country
Phone number
Enforce MFA for yourself
Figure 1: Accessing your user profile in Mobius.
Next steps
Managing your settings is essential for working efficiently in Mobius. Be sure to review your account, workspace, and user profile regularly to align them with your goals. If you have any questions or need help, contact us at [email protected].