User and collaboration

Sign up and log in

Potato supports self-registration by default. A new user can register for the annotation task by navigating to the annotation server, then selecting “Create your account”.

After creating an account, you can log in with the email and password used in the account creation step.

Direct login with URL arguement

Potato also supports direct login through URL arguements, for example: http://localhost:8000/?PROLIFIC_PID=user

You could setup direct login in the YAML configuration file (example):

#defining the ways annotators entering the annotation system
"login": {
   "type": 'url_direct',    #can be 'password' or 'url_direct'
   "url_argument": 'PROLIFIC_PID' # when the login type is set to 'url_direct', 'url_argument' must be setup for a direct url argument login
},

Collaboration under local network

If you do not want to expose the annotation app globally, Potato serves to the local area network by default. You can access the Potato instance through the local IP address of the server.

On Linux machines, you can determine the local IP by running

hostname -I