[ome-users] OMERO feedback list

[josh.moore at gmx.de]

Oliver M,A|(Bller writes:
 > Dear OMERO-dev team,
 > 
 > we've been testing OMERO in our lab and asked our users for
 > feedback.
 > 
 > The result is the feedback list at the end of this mail.

Splendid, thanks for this.

 > The most critical point for us are the read-/write rights (see issue #1).
 > We would like to open our OMERO server also for other groups at
 > Homburg / Saarbruecken, but as long as everyone can see everybody’s
 > data, this is a bit risky.

Yes, this is high on many of our lists.

 > If you have any questions about the feedback list, don't hesitate to ask.
 > I'll forward your questions to the persons in brackets.
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > -olli-
 > 
 > OMERO-Feedback List (omero-Beta-3.0.1)
 > 
 > 1. Read-/Write-rights (olli) 
 > 
 > - Each user within one group can view each other user's images
 > - Even users from different groups can view other user's images
 > => we need the opportunity to define who can view who's images
 > (on the user's side as well as on the admin's side); having this
 > opportunity on the project-level would be fine.

We are currently in the process of discussing how to make the
permissions more usable. We haven't considered basing default
permissions on projects, so please let us know if we should
consider that further. More likely are: user, group, and system-wide.

Currently the default permissions for the system are rwr-r-, which is
overly liberal in your case and many others. In the short term, it's
possible to script the reduction of permissions, but this won't be
ready for release until Beta4. (If you'd like to help with testing,
please let us know.)

And in general, the clients will have more support for setting what
the default permissions at each of the supported levels. If you can
explain your particular scenarios, "George is viewing project X, ..."
that would be immensely helpful.

 > 2. OMERO."exporter" (olli)
 > 
 > - We can import images into OMERO, but how can we get images out of the
 > OMERO system?
 > 
 >   ("save as" in OMERO.insight only allows for saving the actual plane, not
 > the whole z-stack)
 > 
 >   (we only can retrieve our images if we checked the “archive"-box within
 > OMERO.importer,
 > 
 >    which the typical user might typically forget)
 > 
 > => we need the opportunity to get our complete images from OMERO.insight,
 > not just the currently
 > 
 >    dispayed plane (.tiff would be fine).

Yes. This is also slated for Beta4, via OME-TIFFS with some
(to-be-determined) metadata support.

I'll leave the rest to the client guys.
Thanks again for this, Olli.

Gruesse zum Saarland,
~J.

 > 3. OMERO.insight (olli)
 > 
 > - How can I view a comment, which has been attached to an image? Maybe this
 > is a usability problem, because
 > I would expect the comment inside the comment-box (which is empty - but I
 > can enter a comment here, which
 > then disappears ...)
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > 4. OMERO Measurement (Aline)
 > 
 > - select all slides would be an helpful option
 > 
 > - connection of endpoints and a line are not conserved if you expand it to
 > different timepoints or z-Slices
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > 5. OMERO.importer (Aline)
 > 
 > - if the import process failed -> how can these files be removed
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > 6. Omero.insight (Martin)
 > 
 > - I have some problems with my pictures (bmp). So importing is fine but the
 > picture quality you see in Omero.insight is very 
 > bad and it multiplies the pictures in the view mode. Conclusion: bad quality
 > of the pictures and incorrect displaying!
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > ---
 > 
 > Oliver M,A|(Bller