Teams allow you to easily manage groups of users to manage access to projects, communicate with colleagues, and participate in challenges. In On this guide page you will learn how to:
Create and manage a team
Invite users to join a team
Find teams, and identify and manage the teams to which you belong
Use teams for communications and project permissions
Submit to a challenge as a team
A listing of all Teams to which you belong is available To see all Teams that you belong to, click on the Teams tab of your Profile Page, which can be accessed by clicking your name in the top right corner.
Creating a Team
From your Profile Page, which can be accessed by clicking your name in the top right corner, click on the Teams tab as seen below.
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Enter a team name in the dialog box and click Create Team. If the team name already exists, you will be prompted to enter a new team name.
Once the Team is the Team is created, you will be taken to the Team pagethe Team page, where you can invite members, change settings, edit, or delete the Teamthe Team. By default, the user creating the Team is creator of the team is the Team Manager , the user with and has permissions to perform these changes. The Team Manager may designate additional Team Managers by changing the setting next to the users’ name.
Managing a Team
For Teams for which you are As a Team Manager, you may invite or delete Team members and edit Team settings, from the Team pagedelete Team members and edit Team settings from the Team page. The Tools menu button in the upper right corner of the page will provide tasks you can perform for managing a Teama Team.
Invite or Remove Users
Using the Invite UsersUser option, you can find and invite registered Synapse users to join your Teamyour Team. You can search by Synapse user nameusername, or , if the user has entered, their a user’s first and last name if they have entered it. Users will be sent an email indicating they have been invited to join the Team and the Team and must confirm the invitation prior to being included.
You can also invite users by email by entering the email of the person whom you want to invite. They will recieve receive an email indicating they have been invited to join the Team and the Team and must confirm the invitation prior to being included. If they have a Synapse account associated with the email address, they will be able to log in and join the Teamthe Team. If they do not have a Synapse account associated with the email address, they will be prompted to create one prior to joining the Teamthe Team.
You may also remove team members by clicking the Remove button next to a member, or promote additional team members to Team Manager, by clicking the option list below the member.
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Using this option, you can edit the Team name, the Team description, the Team icon, and change Team settingsthe Team name, the Team description, the Team icon, and change Team settings. This includes allowing users to join the team without a Team Manager’s permission (the default is to require Team Manager’s permission). You can also change team email preferences. This setting can allow Synapse users who are not in the Team to email the Teamthe Team to email the Team. See the section below “Communications and Project Permissions” for more information about team emails.
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Use the Delete Team option to delete all references to the Teamthe Team. If a Team has a Team has Synapse content shared with within it (see “Communications and Project Permissions” below), the Team cannot the Team cannot be deleted.
Finding Teams
You may search for Synapse Teams using Synapse Teams using the Search All Teams button on the Teams tab of your User Profile Page. You may also search Teams using search Teams using the general search box in the header of each Synapse page by prefacing the search with @ (e.g. @PCBC), or use the Team Search Page.
Join a Team
For Teams to For Teams to which you do not belong, you may view the team members and contact information, as well as request to join the Team via the Team via the Request to Join Team button on the Team pagethe Team page.
Leave a Team
Use the Leave Team option to be removed from a Teama Team. If you want to re-join the Teamthe Team, you may need the Team Manager’s permission to join.
Search for Team Members
You may search among team members by name or Synapse user name using the search box on the upper lower right side of the Team pagethe Team page.
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Communications and Project Permissions
Each Team has Each Team has an email address which can be used to message the team members. This address is found on the team page. Each team member will be reached at the email address they have registered with Synapse.
You may use Teams to use Teams to manage Sharing Settings on Files, Folders and Projects on Files, Folders and Projects. From the Share button you may add Teams in add Teams in addition to individuals. Each member of the Team will the Team will receive the Sharing Setting specified for the Teamthe Team.
Submitting to a Challenge as a Team
When participating in a Challenge, you may submit solutions as an individual or as a Team. The Team must a Team. The Team must be registered with the challenge, which can be done by clicking the Register a Team button, typically on the Forming a Team page on the challenge wiki. When submitting a File to a File to a challenge from the Web Client, you will be given the option to submit the File as the File as part of a Teama Team. You will then be asked to select from the registered Teams of registered Teams of which you are a member, or register an existing Team with existing Team with the challenge, and to verify which team members contributed to the solution. Note that only members who have already registered with the challenge may be selected.
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