Roles and Capabilities (for Team & Enterprise)

Updated 2 years ago by Vaida

User
PIs
Lab Admins
- Standard LabAdmin
- LabAdmin with view permission
System Admins
- Community Admins

The following information is only applicable to users on a Team or Enterprise instance of RSpace.

The user roles in RSpace Team and Enterprise are very similar to those in RSpace Community, with the addition of System Admin. The roles are listed here:

User
PI (Primary Investigator)
Lab Admin
Lab Admin (with "view all LabGroup member’s work" permission)
System Admin

User

Regular users of RSpace Team and Enterprise have all the standard capabilities and permissions in RSpace: they can create and edit documents, and share them with their LabGroup. Documents created by user X are automatically viewable by the PI of the user X’s LabGroup, in addition to any other users that user X gives view and/or edit permissions.

PIs

PI users are in charge of LabGroups in RSpace, and as such they can view all the content created by members of their LabGroup, in addition to managing group membership and inviting new users. PI users can choose to delegate certain administrative tasks to Lab Admins. See The PI Role for more.

Lab Admins

Standard LabAdmin

Lab Admins are regular users who get appointed to admin status by their PI, giving them additional group administration capabilities. The PI may choose whether to allow admins the ability to view content created by other users in the Lab Group.

LabAdmin with view permission

A Lab Admin with “view all” permission is sometimes called a “Senior Lab Admin”. By default the Senior Lab Admin has read-only access to the work of all LabGroup members, except the PI. The Senior Lab Admin can access a list of the Workspace folders of other LabGroup members by clicking the "Labgroup records" icon in the Workspace toolbar.

Note that if a PI wants to make all of their work available to everyone of the lab, foregoing the usual level of confidentiality that is given to PIs, then the PI can turn on the “Autoshare” feature available on their My RSpace > My Profile page (see Open Lab Autosharing).

See The Lab Admin Role for more.

System Admins

Finally, System Admins are in charge of managing the specific RSpace Team or Enterprise deployment at a given institution. They can create new users (either individually or as a batch upload), create and manage LabGroups, operate as a user to help resolve issues such as resetting a user's password. See this section for more detailed information on system administration.

It is important that System Admin accounts be used ONLY for System Administration tasks and NOT for adding production data. If you are both an Administrator and a contributing scientist, then you will need two different logins for those two different roles. Administrator accounts are free and do not contribute to your total number of licensed seats.

Do not add production data when logged in as a SysAdmin, or Community Admin, do not add Admins to any LabGroups, and do not ever attempt to use the SysAdmin account to fill the PI or standard user role.

Community Admins

Communities are "groups of labgroups", and are useful in larger Team and Enterprise deployments for spreading the admin load of the SysAdmin. The Community admin has similar powers to a SysAdmin, but restricted to the users and groups within the Community. As such, they will not have access to the system-wide Maintenance, Configuration, and Monitoring tabs. You can read more about Community management at Creating Communities (for System Admins) and Managing Users (for System Admins).