The Synapse Web Client provides a mechanism for end users to create access restrictions on entities.
The entity page for a data object having no access restrictions appears as follows:
Pressing the "Flag" button triggers this dialog:
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Clicking "Contact ACT" will open a JIRA issue prompting the user to give additional info, e.g. the object's Synapse ID and the reason for flagging the data.
If the user has admin access (more specifically 'change-permission' access) to the entity, then the "Access" button is enabled, else it's greyed out.
Pressing the "Access" button triggers this dialog:
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Clicking "Contact ACT" will open a JIRA issue prompting the user to give additional info about the nature of the dataset, for use by the ACT in setting access restrictions. Also, download access is prevented (this restriction being removable by the ACT).
The entity page for a data object
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having access restrictions appears as follows:
The "Flag" button works as beforedescribed above.
Pressing "Access" triggers this dialog:
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