Teams

Kinds of team

Roles

The owner can do everything including transferring ownership, archiving and deleting. Admins approve requests, manage members and invite links, open channels, pin topics and post announcements. Members post, reply, vote, upload files and link projects they belong to.

Forum

• Categories: question, discussion, announcement (admins), resource.
• Questions can have an accepted answer, chosen by the asker or an admin; answered questions are marked in the list and the answerer is notified.
• Upvote topics and replies; pin what everyone should read; search titles, bodies and tags; filter to unanswered questions.

Channels

Channels are team conversations on the messaging engine: live delivery, replies, reactions, attachments and read receipts. Every member is in every channel; leaving the team leaves its channels. Open them from the team page or from Messages.

Files and projects

Upload protocols, forms, slides and data (200 MB per file) into folders; files are served with short-lived links to members only. Link the projects the team runs so newcomers find the work; members of a project open it, others see its public record and can ask to join.

Project ideas and volunteering

1. Team → Ideas → Share an idea: title, category, what you have and what is missing, and the roles you need volunteers for (statistician, second reviewer, clinician…). Every member is notified and the team's activity records it.
2. Every role is a tag with its own Volunteer button; any number of members may volunteer for the same role (or name another role), each with a line about what they bring. The author is notified.
3. The author reviews volunteers per role in arrival order — each carries its position and a time tag, so first come, first served is visible — and presses Accept or Decline (each person is told), then Start the project when the team is there: a private project is created with the author as principal investigator and every accepted volunteer as co-investigator. Once the idea is a project the same role buttons read Join as …: accepted people are added to the project, and one removed later leaves it.
4. Ideas shared with a team also appear on the idea board, but only to that team's members; a private team's pitch is never public.

Joining and inviting

1. Find teams lists public, institutional and private teams; join or request in one click.
2. Admins accept or decline requests under Members; requesters are notified either way.
3. Invite links (Members → Invite links) let anyone join directly, including secret teams; links can expire, be limited to a number of uses, and be revoked.