Permissions in IceBear

IceBear has a flexible permissions system that lets you control who can - and cannot - see and change items.

In short:

• All items are placed into a project
• Users are placed in one or more usergroups
• Usergroups are granted permission to read, modify, create and/or delete within a project
• A user's rights on a given record are determined by the project, and by the combined permissions of all the user's groups
• Administrators always have permission to see and change anything in IceBear.

Special permissions

Users may be given additional permissions under certain circumstances.

Project owners

A project owner is the only person (except administrators) who can create and modify proteins within the project, grant and revoke usergroups' permissions, and change the project owner.

For more details, see the project help.

Plate owners

A plate owner can always see a plate and set its protein, regardless of their own permissions. Plates are imported into a default project, where nobody has any permissions, therefore the plate owner is the only one who can see the plate until it is assigned to a real working project.

For more details, see the plate help.