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- The Research Computing Activity Owner. The RCAO is the person with delegation accepting responsibility for the University resources being utilised for this collection (see details here). The RCAO is generally a senior Researcher.
- A Technical Contact (TC) An Activity User with the "Manage resources" privilege (can be many).
Typically, the person requesting a Mediaflux project to hold the collection is made the 'administrator' of the Mediaflux project. This person may be the RCAO, but more likely they are a Technical Contact. RCAOs and TCs an Activity User. RCAOs and Activity Users can find details about the collections storage allocations, along with details required when submitting an access request, they are associated with on the Storage DashboardResearch Computing Portal . Note to access the Storage Dashboard you will need to be at the University or connected to the University VPN.
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- The name of your Mediaflux project (details can be found in the Research Computing Portal)
- The name and email address of the person you wish added/removed
- If the person being added is external, include the statement (or email paste) that they have accepted our T&Cs (see above)
- What role you would like them to have in your project. The possible possible roles are described here.
- The permissions associated with this role apply everywhere in the project, unless permissions are modified by an ACL (see section below).
Modifying Permissions Of Project Folders
It is common to want to modify the permissions of a folder in your project. You might want to
- Restrict the folder so that only specific users or roles can access it
- Increase the permissions of a user
- For example, a user who holds the
participant-a (
read-only) project role, may need to have their permissions increased to allow them to create data in a specific folder and children folders.
- For example, a user who holds the
- Decrease the permissions of a user
- For example, a user how whole the 'participant-acmd' (read/write/destroy) project role, may need to have their permissions decreased to allow them to read-only in a specific folder and children folders.
For any of these (or possibly other!) use cases, if you are the RCAO or Technical Contact for the project, please submit a Service Now request using one of the links on this page. In your ticket, specify
- The name of your Mediaflux project
- The user(s) of interest
- How you want to modify their permissions (see also the list of possible roles)
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- you are using our Standard ACL Structure.