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User background

Alice is a researcher at a lab and she is in the process of starting a new project. She has already contacted Bob who works in a lab abroad and he has agreed to join her research team. Alice has used Synapse in the past and wants to use it for her new project, but she doesn't know if Bob has used Synapse before. Alice does know Bob's email address. Alice wants to invite him to join her newly created team and have him create a new Synapse account if he doesn't have his own already.

Use case

GoalAlice wants to invite Bob to join her Synapse team.
Primary actorAlice.
Secondary actorsBob.
PreconditionAlice has created a team and she is at her team's page.
Success endBob joins the team, or Alice cancels the invitation to Bob.

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.

Step 3. Bob clicks on the invitation link.

Step 4. Bob reaches a registration/sign in page.

Step 5. Bob creates his new Synapse account.

Step 6. System adds Bob's account to Alice's team.

Step 7. Bob is redirected to Alice's team's page and is notified that he has joined the team.

Step 8. System sends a notification email to Alice saying that Bob has joined her team.

Error scenarios

Replacing steps 2 and on.

    1. The email address entered by Alice doesn't exist.
    2. System sends an email to Alice to notify her of the problem.
    3. Alice tries again with a different email address.

Alternative scenarios

Replacing steps 2 and on.

    1. System detects that the email address entered already has a Synapse account associated with it, presumably it's Bob's account.
    2. System sends Bob a membership invitation to Alice's team.
    3. Bob accepts the invitation and joins Alice's team.

Replacing steps 3 and on.

    1. Alice decides not to collaborate with Bob anymore and wants to cancel her invitation.
    2. Alice navigates to her team's page and clicks on the remove button associated with the pending invitation to Bob.
    3. System invalidates the invitation link sent to Bob.
      1. The link Bob received is no longer valid and directs to an error page.

Replacing step 4.

    1. Bob already has a Synapse account associated with a different email address and is already signed in in his browser.
    2. Skip to step 6.

Replacing step 5.

    1. Bob already has a Synapse account associated with a different email address but isn't signed in.
    2. Bob signs in with his existing account.
    3. Continue on step 6.


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