[ome-users] Sharing with OMERO.web

[Josh Moore]

Woodbridge, Mark R writes:
 > The group that the user was a member of at the time of upload?
 > Unfortunately that was the 'default' group (as I wasn't using
 > sharing at that time) so I guess that would allow access to
 > everyone's images.

Yes, it would.

 > Perhaps the only option is to get the others to log in as the user
 > who is leaving?

That would certainly be an easy workaround if it's feasible for your
users.

Cheers,
~Josh

 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: josh.moore at gmx.de [mailto:josh.moore at gmx.de] On Behalf Of Josh
 > > Moore
 > > Sent: 01 February 2010 18:01
 > > To: Woodbridge, Mark R
 > > Cc: Aleksandra Tarkowska; ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk
 > > Subject: Re: [ome-users] Sharing with OMERO.web
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 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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