Associations View

• Associations are groups of Sesame users created and maintained by themselves to share data and resources.
• Every Sesame user can create any number of Associations.
• Every Sesame user can be a Member of any number of Associations.
• The Sesame user who creates an Association becomes the Master of the Association. The Master maintains the Association's Resources and the Membership.
• A Master can invite other Sesame users to become Members of the particular Association, and can remove any Member from the Association. However, a Master can not force no Sesame user to become a Member of an Association.
• An Invited user can either accept the Invitation issued by a Master and become a Member of an Association, or he can refuse it.
• No User can become a Member of an Association, unless he was Invited previously.
• Both sides can terminate the relation at any time. A Master can remove a Member from a mastered Association, and any Member can leave an Association.
• The Association's Resources, and all the data created by users as Members of an Association are only visible and accessible to the Members of the particular Association. Once a Member leaves the Association, his data will stay in the Association, and will be not accessible by him, even if the data were created and owned by him.
• Every Sesame User is automatically Member of the 'World' Lab.

• Fields

• Create Association
• Refresh Associations
• Close Associations
• Remove a Member
• Issue an Invitation (Add a Member)
• Remove an Invitation
• Accept an Application
• Refuse an Application
• View Association Profile
• View User Profile

• General Comments
• See Also

Fields

• The upper part of the Associations window shows the Associations the current user is Master of.
  • Name is the unique Association name. Up to 16 characters.
  • Type shows both the Association's type and the current user's membership type.
    • Lab Master maintains the Lab Resources and the Membership of a Lab.
    • PI maintains the Principal Investigator Resources and the PI's group and their permits that give them access to Sites.
    • Site Admin maintains the Site Resources, and the Site's membership, Staff and PIs. A user can access a site if he has a valid permit from a PI who is a Member of the Site.
• The bottom part of the Associations window shows the membership and the membership type for the selected Association.
  • Applications shows the Sesame users that have a pending Application for the selected Association. To sort by a column, double click on the particular column's header.
    • User Name
    • Family Name
    • Given Name
    • Association Type
      • Lab Member
      • PI's Group Member
      • Site-PI Relation
      • Site Staff
      • PI
  • Invitations shows the Sesame users that have a pending Invitation for the selected Association. To sort by a column, double click on the particular column's header.
    • User Name
    • Family Name
    • Given Name
    • Association Type
      • Lab Member
      • PI's Group Member
      • Site-PI Relation
      • Site Staff
      • PI
  • Memberships shows the Members of the selected Association. To sort by a column, double click on the particular column's header.
    • User Name
    • Family Name
    • Given Name
    • Association Type
      • Lab Member
      • PI's Group Member
      • Site-PI Relation
      • Site Staff
      • PI

Create Association

1. Make the Associations window active in the Board.
2. On the Associations menu click Create Association.
3. Fill out the popup's fields:
   • Name of the new Association, e.g. "John Doe Lab", "Area 51", etc. For PI type, the Name is predefined as the current user's user name. Up to 16 characters.
   • Type of the Association:
     • Lab Master to create a new Lab and to become the Lab Master for it.
     • PI to become a Principal Investigator.
     • Site Administrator to create a new Site and to become the Site Administrator for it.
4. Click on Create button to create the new Association, or, Cancel to cancel.

Note

• An existing Association can not be renamed nor deleted, except by a Sesame Administrator. Not an easy task, so don't count on it.
• The Association names are unique in a Sesame instance.

Refresh Associations

1. Make the Associations window active in the Board.
2. On the Associations menu click Refresh Associations.

Note

• The content of the Associations window will be reloaded from the database. Equivalent to closing and reopening Associations.

Close Associations

1. Make the Associations window active in the Board.
2. On the Associations menu click Close Associations, or click the X button on the window's Title bar.

Note

Remove a Member

1. Select an Association in the upper part of the Associations window.
2. Select a row in Memberships field.
3. Click on the button on the right side of the Memberships field.
4. Click OK in 'Are You Sure' popup.

Note

• Only a Master can remove an Association member.
• Every user can remove himself from an Association, see Memberships.
• A Master of an Association can not remove himself from the mastered association.
• An accidentally removed Member can be reinvited to the Association. After accepting the Invitation, the particular user will be again a Member of the Association.

Issue an Invitation

1. Select an Association in the upper part of the Associations window.
2. Click on the button on the right side of the Invitations field.
3. Do a search in the User Search Panel window:
   1. Set the search criteria fields in the upper part of the window.
      • User Name to search for members with particular User Name. '*' and '?' wild characters are allowed, e.g. 'a*' to return all the Sesame users whose user name start with 'a' or 'A' (in case the Given Name and Family Name fields are set to an '*')
      • Given Name to search for members with particular Given Name. '*' and '?' wild characters are allowed.
      • Family Name to search for members with particular Family Name. '*' and '?' wild characters are allowed.
   2. In the Board, in Options menu click on Search for Members by Name
   3. To sort the results by a column, double click on the particular column's header.
4. Select a row (a user) in the lower part of the User Search Panel window and drag and drop it to the Associations window's Title bar.
5. Select the invitation type in the 'Are You Sure' popup's dropdown field. Only the types relevant to the current Association will be shown.
   • Lab Member
   • PI's Group Member
   • Site-PI Relation
   • Site Staff
   • PI
6. Click Invite to issue the Invitation.

Note

• An accidentally issued Invitation can be removed.
• When a user with a pending Invitation logs in to Sesame next time, he will be presented with the Memberships window, to resolve the pending Invitation.

Remove an Invitation

1. Select an Association in the upper part of the Associations window.
2. Select a row in Invitations field.
3. Click on the button on the right side of the Invitations field.
4. Click OK in 'Are You Sure' popup.

Note

• An accidentally removed invitation can be reissued.

Accept an Application

1. Select a row in Applications field.
2. Click on the button on the right side of the Applications field.

Note

• This operation will remove the selected user from the Applications field, and will add it to the Memberships field.
• If a user's application was accidentally accepted, the user can be removed from Meberships field.
• The Applications field will show only the Applications issued to the Association selected in the upper part of the Association window.
• If after a login the Associations window appers automagically in the Board, there is at least one pending Application to one of the mastered Associations.

Refuse an Application

1. Select a row in Applications field.
2. Click on the button on the right side of the Applications field.
3. Click OK in 'Are You Sure' popup.

Note

• If a user's Application was accidentally removed, the Master can issue an Invitation to the particular user.
• The Applications field will show only the Applications issued to the Association selected in the upper part of the Association window.
• If after a login the Associations window appers automagically in the Board, there is at least one pending Application to one of the mastered Associations.

View Association Profile

1. Double Click on an Association in the upper part of the Associations window.

Note

View User Profile

1. Double Click on a row in Memberships, Invitations or Applications field.

Note

General Comments

• To open the Associations window in the Board, on the Options menu click Associations.
• To make the Associations window active if it is already in the Board, on the Board's Window menu click Associations, or click on the Associations window's Title bar.
• If after a login the Associations window appers automagically in the Board, there is at least one pending Application to one of the mastered Associations. The Applications field will show only the Applications issued to the Association selected in the upper part of the Associations window.
• The upper and bottom part of the Associations window can be resized by dragging the divider between the two parts.

See also

• Memberships
• Sesame Users

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