Projects have two main uses:

• Projects group experiments for sharing.  Projects save time when sharing a large number of experiments with the same users, because they allow you to group experiments together and share them as a unit.
• Projects allow you to share experiments with limited permissions.  When you share an experiment directly, you give full access.  When you share a project though, you can set the permissions to limit what users can do with your experiment and data files.

To create a project:

1.  In the left sidebar of the Inbox, under Manage Projects, click Manage My Projects. 

2.  Under "Actions", click New project. 
3.  Enter a Project Name and a Description.  
4.  Set the permission levels for project members.  There are two settings:

• Sharing Level for illustrations:
  • "View Only" = Project members can only view the illustrations that have been made.  They cannot make their own illustrations.
  • "Illustrations" = Project members can make their own illustrations.
• Cloning Level for experiment files:
  • "Disabled" = Cloning and file download are disabled.  Project members will not be able to download files or clone the experiment.
  • "Clone Files Only" = Project members can clone the experiment, but only with files (not with the illustrations).  Project members can download files.
  • "Full Clone" = Project members can clone the experiment with both files and illustrations.  Project members can download files.

5.  Click the "Create" button at the bottom.

Optional: You can set a default project in your user profile.  Then, when you create a new experiment and upload data, it will select this project by default.  

Notes:

• If you enable "Full Clone", project members will be able to make their own copy of your data which they control fully.  
• Project settings do not override direct sharing.  If you share an experiment with a user, that user has full access to the experiment, regardless of whether it is in a project or not, whether or not the user is on a project, and what permission settings the project has.
• YouWhen canyou changecreate a project, you are the default project manager. Project managers have special permissions on aprojects: see What are projects? for more details.
• If you are project any time aftermanager, you createwill it.automatically have full access to all experiments added to that project. This is a change that occurred in Cytobank version 2.4.3. For any experiments added before the 2.4.3 release (July 22-25, 2011), you will need to be explicitly granted full access.