Anyone who wants to use IceBear will need an account. Users can be put into usergroups. Usergroups, in turn, can be given permissions on projects.
Only administrators can create new users in IceBear. If you integrate automated imagers with IceBear, user accounts may be created automatically.
From the main menu, select Create a user. Or, from the list of users, click the Create new... link in the page header.
Username is the account name, used for logging in. This must be unique to your IceBear installation. Later versions of IceBear will integrate with your organization's LDAP or Active Directory systems, so you should put the new user's LDAP/AD username here if possible.
Full name is the user's name, like "John Smith". This is how they will be shown throughout IceBear.
Email address is self-explanatory. However, please note that this is how IceBear's imager integration identifies which user owns a particular plate; it's important that the email address you give here exactly matches the one in your imaging system's database. If you change this in the imaging system, you will also need to change it in IceBear, and vice versa.
Password must be entered twice. Note that, at present, the password is NOT emailed to the user; you will need to notify them of this password manually, recommending that they change it immediately.
Click Create to create the user account. You will see the new user's page.
Depending on your permissions, some or all of this view may be editable.
These are as described in "Creating a user" above.
Additionally, administrators can activate and de-activate the account. If the account is de-activated, the user cannot log in to IceBear.
Administrators can also set the user's supervisor. At the moment, this doesn't do anything; in a later version of IceBear, supervisors will automatically be given permission to view their supervisees' work.
Administrators can change a user's password at any time. Note that the new password is NOT emailed to the user.
Users can also change their own password at any time. However, they will need the old password. If they've forgotten it, they'll need to ask an administrator to reset it for them. Passwords cannot be recovered.
This tab shows plates owned by the user, along with their associated project.
Depending on your own permissions, there may be more plates in projects that you can't see.
This tab shows which projects the user has permission to see and to work in. Depending on your own privileges, the user may have permissions on additional projects that you aren't allowed to see.
These permissions are derived from the user's group memberships and those groups' project permissions. Where the user owns a project, they will have all permissions on that project.
Mouse over any of the green checkmarks to see where the permission came from.
These permissions cannot be edited here. To change the user's permissions, add the user to a group, remove them from a group, or change the project permissions on one of the user's existing groups.
This tab shows all the usergroups that you are allowed to see, and whether this user belongs to them and has group admin privileges. Depending on your own permissions, you may be able to add the user to or remove them from a group, or grant or revoke their group admin privileges.