View source for Making directories outside of your $HOME visible in the Grid Portal

What works is to (1) get a command line, and (2) make a symbolic
link, like:
<ol>
<li>Get a command line<li>
<li>Make a symbolic link to the directory<li>
</ol>

For example, if we wanted to make a directory called /u/home9/kilroy/data/my_data visible in the Grid Portal, we'd do:
 
 ln -s /u/home9/kilroy/data/name_of_my_data_directory /path/to/whatever_i_want_to_name_my_link

For a more specific example, say I want to make directory /u/home9/kilroy/data/foo_study visible in my /u/home9/kilroy/myusername/projects/ directory in Grid Portal. I also want it to appear named as foo_study in Grid Portal. I would:
 cd /u/home9/kilroy/myusername/projects
 ln -s /u/home9/kilroy/data/foo_study ./foo_study 

Then in the Grid portal data managers, you can use "foo_study" just like any other directory name in your home directory.