With eArray you can set up and participate in collaborations with others. A collaboration is a special workspace, with its own home page and folders, where more than one person can work. Each collaboration workspace contains many of the same tools and commands that you find in your individual user workspace. Any registered user can set up a collaboration.
When you initially create a collaboration, you create the distinct collaboration workspace that others can access. You can invite others to join the collaboration at that time, and you can invite more people later. Only the people that you invite to the collaboration can access its workspace. eArray assigns the creator of a collaboration the role of collaboration lead.
eArray sends invitation e-mails to the people specified by the creator of the collaboration. Invitees do not initially need to be eArray registered users — if they are not registered, the system guides them through the registration and login process when they accept their invitations. Collaboration leads can invite more people to collaborate, monitor who has responded to invitations, send reminder invitations, and if necessary, revoke invitations.
Creators of a collaboration and their invitees can enter the collaboration workspace and participate in the collaboration. They can exit the collaboration, and return to it at any time. While in the collaboration workspace, participants have specific roles that define the tasks they are allowed to perform. Collaboration leads initially assign those roles when they invite people to join the collaboration, but they can change those roles as needed. Leads can also assign other participants a role of collaboration lead. Collaboration leads can also perform certain administrative tasks related to the collaboration.
When you create a collaboration, eArray automatically assigns you a role of collaboration lead. As a lead, you assign participants one of three roles — lead, member, or share user. You can reassign roles at any time. For more details on the tasks users with each of these roles can do, see Participate in a collaboration and Manage a collaboration.
Collaboration member
Collaboration members can work with all of the content associated with the collaboration, but they cannot complete or submit microarray designs and bait libraries, or remove users or assign them other roles. For example, members can review microarray designs, and add/edit probe groups in microarrays created within the collaboration. They can also invite others to participate as share users, subject to the approval of the collaboration lead. In addition, collaboration members can request quotes for microarrays and bait libraries, and buy microarrays and libraries from the Agilent Online Store through eArray.
Collaboration lead
A collaboration lead is a collaboration member with additional administrative privileges. Collaboration leads can manage the invitations to the collaboration and the users in the specific collaboration workspace. They are the only ones who can, even if they have not designed the microarrays or libraries themselves, give final approval for a microarray design or bait library (assign it a status of Complete) and submit it to Agilent Manufacturing.
Collaboration share user
Share users can only view and request quotes/buy the complete and submitted content in the specific collaboration workspace.
See also
Create a collaboration
Invite others to join a collaboration
Monitor invitations you have sent
Participate in a collaboration
Administrative tasks for collaborations