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Invite a new user to join a team

Invite a new user to join a team

Dec 03, 2018

Use cases

Background

Alice is a researcher at a lab and she is in the process of starting a new project. She is trying to recruit people to join her research team to work on her new project. Alice thinks that her friend Bob who is a researcher at a different lab might be interested in joining her team.

Use case A - Alice wants to invite Bob to join her Synapse team.

Goal

Alice wants to invite Bob to join her Synapse team.

Primary actor

Alice

Secondary actor

Bob

Precondition

Alice has created a team and she is at her team's page.

Postcondition

Bob receives an email invitation to join Alice's team.

Workflow

Main success scenario

Step 1. Alice invites Bob to join her team by entering his email address and an optional invitation message.

Step 2. System sends Bob an email containing an invitation link to join Alice's team.

Error scenarios

Replacing step 2.

Mockups

Use case B - Alice wants to invalidate the invitation she sent previously.

Goal

Alice wants to invalidate the invitation she sent previously.

Primary actor

Alice

Secondary actor

Bob

Preconditions

  1. Alice has sent an email invitation to Bob.

  2. Bob hasn't accepted the email invitation yet.

Postcondition

The invitation link Bob received is no longer valid.

Workflow

Main success scenario

Step 1. Alice retrieves the pending invitations to her team and removes the one associated with Bob.

Step 2. System invalidates the invitation link sent to Bob.

Mockups

Use case C - Bob wants to create a Synapse account and accept Alice's invitation.

Sub use case C1 - Bob wants to create a Synapse account using the same email address to which Alice sent the email invitation.

Sub use case C2 - Bob wants to create a Synapse account using a different email address, not the one to which Alice sent the email invitation.

Goal

Bob wants to create a Synapse account and accept Alice's invitation.

Primary actor

Bob

Secondary actor

Alice

Preconditions

  1. Alice has sent an email invitation to Bob.

  2. Bob doesn't have a Synapse account.

Postcondition

Bob is part of Alice's team.

Workflow

Sub use case C1

Success scenario

Step 1. Bob clicks on the invitation link in the email he received and is directed to the Synapse web client.

Step 2. The web client presents Bob with the option to create a Synapse account or sign in with an existing account.

Step 3. Bob creates his new Synapse account.

Step 4. The web client displays Alice's invitation to Bob.

Step 5. Bob accepts Alice's team invitation.

Step 6. System sends a notification email to Alice saying that Bob has joined her team.

Sub use case C2

Success scenario

Step 1. Bob clicks on the invitation link in the email he received and is directed to the Synapse web client.

Step 2. The web client presents Bob with the option to create a Synapse account or sign in with an existing account.

Step 3. Bob creates his new Synapse account.

Step 4. System sends a verification email to the address to which Alice sent the invitation.

Step 5. The web client prompts Bob to verify that he owns the above email address by clicking the link in the verification email.

Step 6. Bob clicks on the verification link and is directed to the Synapse web client.

Step 7. The web client displays Alice's invitation to Bob.

Step 8. Bob accepts Alice's team invitation.

Step 9. System sends a notification email to Alice saying that Bob has joined her team.