[ome-users] Sharing with OMERO.web

[Josh Moore]

Mark,

you will need to use the existing group which the user is a member of,
since that is the group in which the data is stored.

Cheers,
~Josh

Woodbridge, Mark R writes:
 > I have created a new group with the owner set to a new generic
 > user, added the departing user to that group, and logged into
 > OMERO.web as the generic user. I still can't see any images on the
 > 'share' tab, even when I select the user's name in the
 > drop-down. Am I missing something?
 > 
 > Mark.
 > 
 > From: Aleksandra Tarkowska [mailto:aleksandrat at lifesci.dundee.ac.uk]
 > Sent: 01 February 2010 11:36
 > To: Woodbridge, Mark R
 > Cc: ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk
 > Subject: Re: [ome-users] Sharing with OMERO.web
 > 
 > Hi Mark
 > 
 > Your understanding of the collaboration strategy is correct but
 > default permissions were lowered to rw---- in previous versions
 > because of various difficulties with the security system. This is
 > the reason that other members of that group cannot see the data (it
 > is only visible to the owner of that group). In that case you might
 > want to share group owner account. Then everyone who wants to see
 > that data can login as "group owner" and view it.
 > 
 > In order to allow group-sharing, a revamp of the permissions is
 > planned for 4.2. For more details please take a look on the work
 > plan page in
 > http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/wiki/WorkPlan/Permissions
 > 
 > Thanks
 > Ola
 > 
 > On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:02, Woodbridge, Mark R wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I have a question about the existing sharing functionality. We have
 > a researcher who is leaving and wants his images to be accessible
 > to his current colleagues. It looks like it should be possible to
 > do this by putting them in the same user group (using webadmin)
 > then his colleagues can go to webclient > Team, select his name and
 > see his images. But no images appear. Am I doing something wrong?
 > The alternative is for him to go through all his images and share
 > them using the basket but this is slow and doesn't keep the
 > project/dataset hierarchy. I'm assuming that neither approach
 > allows people to see his images in insight, but I gather this is in
 > progress (according to Josh's message).
 > 
 > Any help would be appreciated,
 > 
 > Mark.
 > 
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