Configuring Tables to Allow Anonymous "View" Access

This article documents the current instructions for marking a Table in Synapse as "OPEN_DATA"; that is, allowing the Table data to be viewed by anonymous users without being logged in, if the sharing settings allow. 

Relevant developer documentation: https://docs.synapse.org/rest/PUT/entity/id/datatype.html 

Background: Anonymous "Download" for Tables/Data, Project Plan

Instructions

Additional detail and comments here:  PLFM-5240 - Getting issue details... STATUS

1. First change the table's permissions to "Anyone on the web" → "Can View" in the portal. 

2. Provide the table's Synapse ID to a Synapse engineering administrator, who connects to the Sage VPN, then follows this link to the Jenkins job: http://build-system-ops.prod.sagebase.org:8080/job/Enable%20anonymous%20download/ and logs in to the server.

3.  The admin' runs the job, entering the Synapse ID of the table to be configured.

4. Anonymous users should now be able to see your table's query results.