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Understand permissions, review states, and your next action
Make deliberate sharing choices and interpret each status in the context of its profile, proposal, or review.
For: Applicants and members reviewing consent choices or owner feedback
Complete the task
Save the explanation for administrator review; the administrator records the decision.
Read current policies →Checkpoint 1
Choose each form of sharing deliberately
Review biography, introduction, goals, directory visibility, and recording choices individually. Read the exact form language and applicable policy before signing. Member permissions and submitted revisions remain part of the review history. The owner can restrict visibility to private; expanded sharing depends on a fresh member choice. Keep public-form descriptions at the approved high level and use the authorized secure pathway for restricted material.
Checkpoint 2
Read the status beside its record
Submitted means the member profile has entered review; reviewing identifies the review stage; revision-requested directs you to owner feedback. Approved identifies an approved profile, followed by the particular placement and assignments recorded for you. Pending indicates an outstanding decision or readiness item where that label appears. Professional and laboratory reviews have separate status sequences, including declined when the recorded review reaches that disposition.
- Open feedback before revising the existing profile.
- Check whether the status belongs to your profile, intake receipt, group membership, or assignment.
- Ask for clarification when the next action or scope remains unclear.
Checkpoint 3
Respect restricted and historical states
Inactive or suspended status calls for owner guidance about participation and access. Archived identifies a retained historical record. Declined identifies the decision recorded for the applicable intake or restricted profile. Profile editing preserves these owner-imposed restrictions. Existing authorized assignments can remain available during routine profile revision when membership remains active. Project access, authorship, and release permissions continue to follow their documented decisions.