Studies view should display the study owner/creator

[adswafford]

[antgonza]

This is not an easy fix because we have ad hoc methods/functions to display this large lists as fast as possible. However, it's not terrible. The easiest will be to just display the email from the owner, will this suffice? Adding the actual name of the users not as easy but doable as we will need to be smart to now overcomplicate queries (and make them slower).

[ackermag]

I am not sure what this issue means. Are we talking on the study page or in the list of studies? In the study landing page, I always ask someone creating a study to put their name as lab contact because then I know whose study it is. Separate from the PI of the study. The only time it is helpful to know who created the study is as an admin - when there is a request to share the study (i.e. prior to making it public). Only the person who created the study can share it (I believe). All the other email addresses are clickable on the study page so I am not sure of the value of adding another field - either to the study list or to the study page. It is a feature only helpful to admins if "lab contact" is used appropriately. Perhaps add text that explains this on the study creation page.

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On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Antonio Gonzalez ***@***.***> wrote: This is not an easy fix because we have ad hoc methods/functions to display this large lists as fast as possible. However, it's not terrible. The easiest will be to just display the email from the owner, will this suffice? Adding the actual name of the users not as easy but doable as we will need to be smart to now overcomplicate queries (and make them slower). — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2224 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB69gInCLeFbogYa0JUzLc0id-RwoKCuks5sYvQRgaJpZM4O0NEA> .

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[antgonza]

haha - the issue is that in the study list, we don't know how's the owner of the study AKA if it's yours or you are invited and the request is to add the email to the list, which I think is fine ...

[josenavas]

As a group we've decided that the email should not be shown. We don't think that showing the study creator is actually useful either, but we need the arguments from @adswafford to correctly assess this.

[adswafford]

For clarification, this is on the "View Studies" page (https://qiita.ucsd.edu/study/list/). And yes, Antonio's comment "the issue is that in the study list, we don't know how's the owner of the study AKA if it's yours or you are invited and the request is to add the email to the list, which I think is fine" is my point.

Use case 1: I'm trying to help a user share their study with others, and they have listed themselves as the lab contact, and their PI as the PI. I go to the "Studies View" page and search for their name and get no results. Then I have to ask the user to tell me their Qiita study ID. They respond "I'm not at my computer, but it's the only one I have in there." and I'm still unable to find their study without doing a google search to find them on their PI's wesbite (provided it's up to date), then search on that. If the Studies View page just showed the lab contact, or the full list of people who had access to the study (minus Qiita admins of course) then this would solve the issue and save considerable time and effort.

Use case 2: A former lab member has left their lab. Their PI wants help finding their data and sharing it with a new lab member, but the former member listed Rob Knight as the PI because it was a collaboration and they missed the link to add a person to the list during study creation. I have no way to track down the study, but if the list of users who have access to the study is provided, I type in their former email address and it's done.

So I think we should just display the full list of who has access to the study on the 'Shared with these users' section on the Studies View page and on the Study Description page. Would that be easiest to implement?

If we still don't want to do this, then at least displaying the lab contact would be fine so long as we also encourage people to put themselves as the lab contact. They typically want to put someone on the lab who they think will be processing their samples in my interactions with users.

[antgonza]

I like the idea of showing the owners email in the shared with column as a static/not-modifiable email.

[josenavas]

Ok - Add the name but not the email (use the same approach than used with the shared users). Everybody expressed their concerns on showing the email in plain text. It's just one more join.