Member Management
As a project owner in Coscine, you have the ability to add, remove, or upgrade other researchers from project member to project owner.
Member Management
To manage project members, either click on the Settings -> Members button on the right side of the project page or on the left quick launch bar (see Figure 1). You will be redirected to the user management page. Here you will find a tabular listing of all project members and their roles.
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Members must be added separately per project and per subproject and their roles must be separately managed. The members and roles are not inherited from the main project to subprojects.
Role Management
In Coscine there are different roles:
- Owner
- Member
- Guest
- External
Further information can be found on the respective pages for Roles in Coscine.
Add Users
To add other users, they must have an account in Coscine. Use the "Search for a user or an email address to add..." free text field on the User Management page (see Figure 1) to find and select users. The search requires that at least three letters match before search results are displayed and returns a maximum of 10 results. Define the role of the user (see Figure 1; selection field Member) and then press Add User.
If the user does not have an account yet, see Invite External Project Members below.
Invite External Project Members
You can send an email invitation for your project to people without a Coscine account. To do this, simply enter the person's email address in the search field, select the role for the person, and click Invite (see Figure 2). The invited person will now receive a personalized email from the Coscine system, with a link to sign up and information about the project. Once they have signed up and created an account, the person will be added to your project.
Under the Invited Users tab, you will see an overview of all the invitations sent to external people (see Figure 2). You can view the status of each invitation, as well as subsequently delete or resend the invitation (if the email has been lost or deleted). The invited person will be notified of your actions in both cases.
You can only change the role of the invited person once the person has been added to your project. If you have accidentally sent an invitation with an incorrectly assigned role, you should delete it and send a new invitation with the correct role.
The Status column of the user administration shows you whether the invitation has already been accepted. Invitations that have already existed for a long time and have not been answered are declared invalid for security reasons. If the invited person now wants to join the project after all, you should repeat the invitation via the Send again button.
Import Members
Using the import function, you can add multiple members to your project at the same time from existing (sub)projects. In the user management, you call up this function via the Import button (see Figure 2). In the window that now opens, you can use the drop-down list at the top left to select the project from which you want to add members (see Figure 3). After selecting a project, the members from the respective project appear in the table. If you have a large number of members, the filter function in the table header for sorting by name may prove helpful.
If you do not want to add all members of a project to your subproject, but only a selection of the members displayed in the table, you have the option of removing certain members from the table using the Remove button. These will then be ignored during the import process and will not be added to the new project.
Search for Users
If users are already part of your project, you can search for them using the right-hand search text field Search within project members on the user management screen (see Figure 1). To do this, simply enter the name of the person in the free text field. The search will be performed automatically - you do not need to confirm your search parameters by clicking another button.
Removing Permissions and Users
You can change the initial permissions assigned to a user at any time in the user table. You can also remove users at any time by clicking the Remove button in the Actions column.