[ome-devel] collaboration and group/permission in OME

[Josh Moore]

On Aug 4, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Yanling Liu wrote:

> Now, if I try to import images to user 1 in group 2, will user 1 only see
> these images in group 2? In other words, if one user belongs to multiple
> groups, will the user have to switch to different groups in order to see
> his/her images in different groups?

Yes.

> Besides adding users to different groups, I am not aware of other ways to
> share images between groups.
> 
> Also, would it be possible to share data per user and per project? For
> example, if user 1 wants to share project 1 with user 2, is there a way
> other than adding user 2 to user 1's group?

Not currently, no.

> I feel this could be a little confusing...trying to figure out how to do
> collaboration in OME...

There are certainly a number of limitations, which we've tried to explain/outline
under http://help.openmicroscopy.org/sharing-data.html -- have you seen it?

~J.


> Thanks,
> Yanling