Managing Collaboration Groups

This section describes how to link to the NCI's Common Security Module (CSM) where you can create users in the User Provisioning Tool (UPT). It also describes how to create and manage collaboration groups and curation processes.

Topics in this section include the following:

Administrative Tasks in caNanoLab

If you are logged in as an admin, click the Administration menu option to perform administrative tasks. This option is hidden from those logged in as users or curators.

The Administration page displays three options. Click one of these links for more information about administrative tasks.

• Creating New User Accounts
• Configuring Site Preferences
• Transferring Data Ownership

Creating New User Accounts

To configure new users, you must log into caNanoLab as an administrator.

Follow these steps to configure new users:

1. Click the Administration menu bar option.
2. In the page that opens, click the Create User Accounts and Assign Privileges link. This link leads to the NCI's Common Security Module (CSM) where you can create users in the User Provisioning Tool (UPT). You must have administrative privileges to perform the tasks associated with creating a new user.

You can find more information about creating new users and assigning user privileges in the UPT User's Guide.

Configuring Site Preferences

To configure site preferences, you must log into caNanoLab as an administrator.

Using this feature of caNanoLab, you can add a logo or site banner to your instance of the caNanolab tool.

1. Click the Administration menu bar option.
2. In the page that opens, click the Configure Site Preferences link.
3. On the Site Preference page, click the Browse button.
4. Navigate to the logo or banner file you want to display in caNanoLab.
5. Click Submit. The imported logo displays in the upper right corner of the caNanoLab page. Click Reset to clear the fields on the form.

Transferring Data Ownership

To transfer data ownership, you must log into caNanoLab as an administrator.
Using this feature, you can transfer ownership of the data (samples, protocols, publications, collaboration groups) to a different user.

1. Click the Administration menu option.
2. In the page that opens, click the Transfer Data Ownership link.
3. On the Transfer Ownership page, enter the Current Owners Login Name. Click the search button (  ) to find the information if you do not know it.
4. Enter the New Owner Login Name. Click the search button ( ) to find the information if you do not know it.
5. Select the Data Type from the drop-down list.
6. Click Submit to confirm the ownership transfer. All of the data owned by that owner will be transferred to the new owner. Click Reset to clear the fields on the form.

Managing Collaboration Groups

Any logged in caNanoLab user can create collaboration groups to easily share and manage accessibility to data in the system.

To create a collaboration group, click the Community menu option. In the Community Links section of the Manage Community page, click Manage Collaboration Groups. The Manage Collaboration Groups page that opens lists existing collaboration groups. On this page, you can also create new groups.

See Creating a Collaboration Group and Editing a Collaboration Group.

Creating a Collaboration Group

To create a new collaboration group, follow these steps:

1. Click Add corresponding to New Collaboration Group.
2. Enter a name and description for the group.
3. Click Add corresponding to User.
4. Enter the users login name or click the search icon (  ) to open a list of persons with caNanoLab user accounts. Click the name of a person you want to add to the group.
5. After selecting each person, you must indicate the Access to the Group selection. Select from the drop down list the access you wish that person to have.
6. Click Save for each entry. As each person's name is entered, access is indicated and saved, you can then add another person to the group.
7. To modify a selection, click the Edit link next to each person's login name. caNanoLab reopens the entry form where you can change the access or even remove the name.
8. Once you have completed your selection(s), click Submit to confirm your collaboration group. The group now is shown on the Manage Collaboration Groups page.

Editing a Collaboration Group

To edit a collaboration group, follow these steps:

1. On the Managing Collaboration Groups page, click the Edit link corresponding to an existing collaboration group.
2. On the form that opens, you can modify any details of the collaboration group, following the instructions given in .Creating a Collaboration Group.

Curating Data

 

If you are logged in as a curator, click the Curation menu option. The Manage Curation page displays two options. Click one of these links for more information about these two curation tasks:

• Reviewing Data Pending Release
• Managing Batch Data Availability

Reviewing Data Pending Release

1. On the Manage Curation page, click the Review Data Pending Release to Public link.
   The Data Pending Review page that opens displays the list of data to be reviewed.
2. Click the Edit link to open a data detail page where you can update a sample, as described in .
3. After reviewing the submitted data, you can assign the data to be Public. To do so, click Add associated with the Access to the * function. In the Access Information section of the expanded page, select the Public radio button and click Save.

Managing Batch Data Availability

This feature allows you to generate or to remove data availability for multiple samples in a batch.

Click on this link in the Manage Curation page to open the Manage Batch Data Availability page. Three options are listed on this page: Generate data availability for all samples, Regenerate data availability of sample with existing availability, and Delete data availability for all samples.

Once you select any of these buttons and click the Submit button, the system informs you that the process will take a while. Upon finishing, caNanoLab opens a Results page with a message stating the status of the long running process.

Because the batch generation runs in the background, you can leave this page and continue browsing other parts of the portal and come back later to check the status of the process you initiated.