GPF User Management

All options concerning Management can only be found by admin users in the Management tab from the upper left corner menu

Quick start guide

How to create a new user?

Management menu

User management menu

Users list: 1 - create new user button; 2 - the name of the user if specified; 3 - user email; 4 - list of groups the user belongs to; 5 -

How to specify permissions for a given user?

Interface for editing user groups

Users

Actions towards users

Every user is represented by a row on the table shown in the Users category on the Management tab. The delete user, remove/reset password actions can be seen in the Actions column for every user in question.

Interface for actions on users

Reset password

Clicking on the middle icon in the Actions column, resets the password of the user shown on the current row. This button will send the user in question an email with a corresponding link, obligating them to choose a new password for their account.

Remove password

Clicking on the utmost left icon in the Actions column, removes the password of the user shown on the current row. After completing this action, in order for the user in question to acquire a new password, clicking on the Reset password button will be necessary.

Delete user

Clicking on the utmost right ‘X’ icon in the Actions column, deletes the user shown on the current row.

Create user

Admins can create new users and associate them with groups. The Create user button is located on the top right corner of the Users page.

Create user interface

This button will open a page, where the new user’s email, name or additional groups can be entered. After every mandatory field is filled, clicking the Submit button will create a new user.

Create user dialog

After a new user is added, in order for them to log into their newly created account, an admin should reset the user’s password. See Reset password for more.

Has password checkbox

Whether a user has a password or not can be seen in the ‘Has password’ column, where a tick symbol indicates ‘yes’ and empty cell ‘no’.

Edit user

Any user’s email or default groups cannot be changed but the Name of the user can. Clicking on any user’s email address will lead to a page, where their user name can be changed.

Edit user dialog

Clicking Submit will remember the new changes.

Actions towards groups

Search groups

The search bar for groups is located on the upper left in the Users category in the Management tab.

Management tab

Add/Remove group from a user

Only admins can assign or remove groups. Interacting with users is achieved via the Users category in the Management tab from the menu.

Select users management in management tab

In order to assign a new group to a user, click on the blue link of the user’s email address.

List of users

This will open a page, allowing for the selected user’s information to be edited. Groups can be added by using the Other Groups dropdown menu option or removed by clicking the ‘X’ in the same menu option.

Edit user groups

Remove group from user - shortcut

Next to every user’s groups, an ‘X’ symbol can be found. By clicking it, the selected group will be removed from the user.

Remove groups from user

Default groups cannot be removed.

Add/Remove groups from multiple users at once

Select multiple users

Using the boxes in the ‘Select’ column, multiple users can be selected at once. Ticking the box under select will select all, while clicking it a second time will select none.

After the desired users are selected, by choosing an option from the Bulk edit dropdown menu, groups can be either removed or added to them.

Bulk edit of multiple users

After choosing an option, a new page will appear, allowing you to pick groups to remove or add.

Groups

Groups are entities that associate users with datasets. If a user wishes to access a certain dataset, he has to belong to a group containing that dataset. Users and datasets can be in multiple groups simultaneously.

When a new user or dataset is created, they are automatically assigned to groups with their corresponding names.

Example of newly added user

Special Groups

Admin

Users assigned to the admin group, have all permissions. Only admin users can view or interact with other users, groups or datasets.

Anonymous

anonymous@seqpipe.org is a group that all unregistered users belong to. They lack permissions for accessing most of the datasets. Inaccessible datasets are shown in grey color.

Example of a dataset accessible to all users

Hidden

Datasets could belong to a group called hidden. This group indicates which datasets should stay hidden (instead of showing them in grey color) in the dropdown menu on the dataset page for users without access permissions.

Example of a hidden dataset, visible after user is logged in

In this case, Denovo DB Dataset is an option for the registered user, as opposed to when an anonymous user is opening the menu in the previous example.

Any user

Certain datasets are visible to every registered user. They belong to the any_user group which is automatically assigned to every account and cannot be removed.

Any dataset

any_dataset is a group that contains all of the available datasets. Admins are usually subscribed to this group.

Sorting groups

In the Groups tab on the Management menu, the groups column can be sorted by clicking on the arrows at the end of the Group column title.

Interface for sotring groups

By clicking on the down arrow, it allows the existing groups to be sorted alphabetically in descending order, while the up arrow sorts them in ascending order.

Dataset access

In the Datasets tab on the Management menu, GUI users can observe information about which users have access to a dataset or which groups does a dataset belong to.

Adding group to a dataset

In the Datasets tab, by typing group names in the text bar in the ‘Groups with access’ column, and then clicking ‘Add’, existing groups can be assigned to datasets.

Example of changing groups of a dataset