Workspaces & roles

A workspace is the environment you select after logging in. It is the container for everything you work with — storage accounts, samples, workflow runs, analyses, reports, and the people who can see them. You only ever see the data in the workspace you're currently in, and your role in that workspace decides what you can do.

Selecting and switching workspaces

Your active workspace is shown in the user menu in the top navigation. Open the menu to switch to another workspace you belong to. Switching reloads the Data Page for the newly selected workspace.

If a sample you expect isn't listed, first confirm you're in the right workspace.

When you have no workspace yet

If your account doesn't belong to any workspace, you land on a welcome screen instead of the Data Page. What it offers depends on your account:

• If you're allowed to create workspaces, it shows a Create Workspace action. Give the workspace a name and an optional description.

• Otherwise it asks you to have an administrator invite you to an existing workspace.

Members and invitations

Workspace administrators manage membership from Workspace settings → Members:

• Invite one or more people by email address, assigning them a role. Each invitee's result is reported back (added, already a member, or not yet registered).

• Change a member's role or remove a member from the row actions.

Roles and what they can do

Every member has one of three roles. Each role grants a fixed set of capabilities, and those capabilities control access to features across the interpreter — if you don't have a capability, its controls are hidden or disabled rather than failing when you click them.

Role	Intended for
Viewer	Read-only access — review samples and analyses without changing them.
Contributor	Day-to-day interpretation — manage samples, run analyses, and classify variants.
Admin	Full control — everything a contributor can do, plus workspace administration and report sign-off.

The capabilities that matter most during interpretation:

Capability	What it allows	Typical role
Manage Samples	Add and edit samples and their metadata.	Contributor, Admin
Run Workflows	Launch and re-run analyses.	Contributor, Admin
Classify Variants	Apply ACMG/AMP classifications to variants.	Contributor, Admin
Sign Off Reports	Approve, reopen, and close (release) clinical reports.	Admin only
Manage Users	Invite and remove members, assign roles.	Admin
Manage Workspace	Rename, edit, or delete the workspace.	Admin

Report sign-off is deliberately admin-only. Contributors can draft a report and submit it for review, but only an admin can approve and release it. See Generating a report.

Workspace settings

Administrators reach workspace administration from Workspace settings:

• Details — rename the workspace or edit its description.

• Roles & permissions — review the full capability matrix for each role.

• Delete — permanently remove the workspace and its configuration.