Adding a New Project to the Submission Layer
Prerequisites and Notes
Required information:
- Project Name
- Start and End dates
- Project embargo status
- Researcher usernames to be associated with project
Optional (for this system) information:
- Project Owner, and contact
- Project Description
Workflow
Submission Manager logs onto the Submission Layer
Open Projects page, and select Create Project
Select the ‘Projects’ tab at the top of the page, and then click the blue ’+ Create Project’ button on the top right of the Projects page.

Enter Project Information
The project information should be entered. This includes:
- Project Name (mandatory)
- Start and End dates (mandatory)
- Project Owner (optional)
- Project Contact (email) (optional)
- Mark if project is embargoed
- Project Description (optional)
- Display on UI (not currently modifiable)

Once this information is entered press the blue ‘Submit’ button. The new project will be visible on the Projects page.

Add People to the Project
Click on the new project’s name to open the project page for this. Then select the ‘People’ tab within the project page, and click the blue ’+ Add User’ button.

This opens a menu containing the available users. Select those that you wish to add to the project, and then click the blue ‘Add’ button.
Add TRE(s) to the Project
Select the ‘TREs’ tab within the project page, and click the blue ’+ Add TRE’ button. This opens a menu containing the available TREs.
Select those that you wish to add to the project, and then click the blue ‘Add’ button.

Request Approval from TRE
The ‘TRE’ tab for the project will now show that the project status with the TRE is ‘Undecided’.

Approval for the project should be requested from the TRE Manager.
The process for requesting approval is out of scope of this document.
Approval Received from TRE
Once the TRE Manager has approved the project then the TRE status will change to ‘Approved’.
