I'm at the oral surgeon waiting for my wife right now, so I don't think I can do a call at noon. I'll ping you when I get into the office, looking like about 1pm at the earliest, possibly a bit later.
The good news is I got past the block point of creating Metagenome Collections (I just stuck the object into the workspace so I didn't have to wait any longer. Roman has made a widget for this that we should add to the Communities widgets). I have also succeeded in retrieving abundance profiles which can be viewed with the "View" widget. I'm still waiting on a diagnosis from you guys on what's failing with the "2D Heatmap", "Box Plot", and "PCoA" plots before I can progress.
Also, what's the trick for determining what the field names (and columns?) are in the metadata?
Thanks,
- Dylan