Managing Subordinates
Supervisor's account
A PLGrid Supervisor is a person enabling persons not employed at Polish research units (including PhD students and undergraduates) to use PLGrid infrastructure resources. The Supervisor must have an account and an active affiliation of Academic unit employee in the PLGrid portal.
- The requirement for verification of persons applying to the infrastructure as a Subordinate is a scientific collaboration between the Supervisor and the Subordinate. This is confirmed each time by the person designated as the Supervisor.
- Supervisor is responsible for managing the affiliations of his/her Subordinates (accepting and extending their affiliations, blocking affiliations of the former colleagues).
Supervisor's role
The role of Supervisor allows PLGrid resources to be used by:
- Students
- PhD students
- Retired employees
- Foreign researchers who are not affiliated to Polish research units but undertake research projects in cooperation with Polish units
Information
The role of research Supervisor is assigned by default to all persons having an account in the PLGrid Portal and Academic unit employee affiliation type.
Subordinate accounts
Each academic unit employee has the status of a Supervisor and a special space within the Portal – the Subordinates tab. It contains a list of persons with Subordinate affiliation, who, when applying for access to PLGrid resources, have indicated a given user as a Supervisor.
As a Supervisor you can
- Activate the affiliation of the Subordinate (click Accept)
- Deactivate the affiliation of the Subordinate (click Deactivate)
- Remove the affiliation of the Subordinate (click Remove) – use this option if the collaboration with the Subordinate has ended completely
- Renew the affiliation of Subordinates (click Renew affiliation) – use when the Subordinate's default affiliation lifetime (6 months) is coming to an end, but his/her partnership with the Supervisor continues; the extension requires specifying a new affiliation expiry date and confirming with the green Confirm button.
Information
If a new person applies for a Subordinate-type affiliation with a particular Supervisor, or a current Subordinate applies for an extension of his/her affiliation, the Supervisor is notified by e-mail.
Labels
Labels allow you to flexibly categorise your subordinates depending on your present needs. For example, they allow you to split your subordinates into different seminar groups or different years of study.
To define a new label, click on the Labels tab and then on the New Label button.
Name it and (optionally) provide a brief description. You can also assign a unique colour to the label. You will see its preview below.
To assign a previously created label to a given subordinate, navigate to the list of your subordinates and go directly to the subordinate's profile. Then use the Assign Label option. Select your label from the drop-down list.
Bulk actions
In the view with the list of your subordinates' affiliations, you can also perform quick bulk actions:
- Remove
- Deactivate
- Renew
To make these actions active, first select the subordinates in the list or mark the Select all option.
