Approving a data request and onboarding its team
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Data Request Approvers and Administrators are responsible for evaluating data requests submitted by Researchers and Data Facilitators, and well as approving them when permissible. Once a data request has been approved, Data Request Approvers and Administrators can also approve and onboard its team members, granting them access to the relevant dataset.
From your username in the header, select 'Manage data requests'.
Select the data request you wish to evaluate.
Select the 'Project details' tab to review the data request team's responses to any data request questions, as well as the data request's title and purpose.
Select the 'Summary' tab to communicate with the data request's team members, in case any additional information is required.
Once appropriate, select 'Approve this request' to do just that.
Note: If you wish to cancel the request, select 'Cancel Request' from the bottom of the 'Summary' tab (below).
Once a data request has been approved, select its 'Members' tab.
Select 'Manage Access' from the row of the user who you wish to approve. Then, if this team member is:
To be onboarded later, select 'Approve as analyst'
To be onboarded now, select 'Approve and onboard'
Not to be onboarded, select 'Deny'.
Note: Project leads are approved as Analysts from this screen (rather than as Project Leads).
Confirm your selection by selecting 'Approve [user]', 'Approve and onboard' or 'Deny Approval' appropriately. If you are denying a user's approval, you must provide a reason in the indicated field.
Note: If the relevant dataset has an undertaking attached, a user must complete it before they can be approved or onboarded.
If a user was only approved earlier, but is now to be onboarded, select 'Manage Access', then 'Onboard user'. If a user was both approved and onboarded in step
Note: A user's onboarding can still be denied even if they have been approved by selecting 'Deny onboarding' (below).
Select 'Onboard [user]'.
The email assigned to the dataset as its onboarding email will be sent further information/instruction, but additional evidence of onboarding can also be downloaded by selecting 'Download Onboarding'.
