How do I setup a Challenge via the web site? The documentation says to "Navigate to your challenge site" but I don't have one or can't create one. How is this done outside of the Python/R packages?

Created by Patrick Stout pstout
Thanks for the info. Enabling the Alpha flag worked!
@pstoutprevagroup I updated my reply above with more info, tagging you again to make sure you see it. :) Thanks!
Hello @pstoutprevagroup! It looks like the web UI component that lets you do this is under the "alpha" flag (this flag hides some advanced functionality as well as some features that are under development). To turn ON the alpha flag, scroll down to the footer of Synapse and look for the little "@" - click that to enable alpha mode, and then visit the project that you want to add the challenge do. If you have "Edit" access to the project, then you should be good to go - click on "Project Settings" and then on "Run Challenge".   As @kdaily mentioned, I am interested in learning more about what kinds of challenges (outside of DREAM Challenges) folks are using Synapse for; if you'd be open to it, I'd love to schedule a quick conversation with you to learn more. You can reach me at meredith.slota@sagebase.org. Thanks!
The instructions at that page are specific to DREAM challenges, and some of the steps do require the R or Python client (e.g., copying the Challenge template). However, they are not required to set up a challenge in general - as long as you create your own Synapse Project. Instead of following this section (http://docs.synapse.org/articles/challenge_administration.html#creating-dream-challenge-projects), check out this documentation page on how to set up your own Synapse Project (http://docs.synapse.org/articles/getting_started.html#project-and-data-management-on-synapse) that you can then use to follow the rest of the Challenge setup instructions through the web.   Also, in all of the documentation pages, there are little tabs in each section - make sure you switch to the "Web" tab and it will show screenshots of how to do things through the Synapse web site!   We are actively improving the challenge administration documentation - if you get stuck, please don't hesitate to post in the forum. I'm going to tag one of our challenge infrastructure admins @thomas.yu and our Synapse product manager @Meredith to assist.
That's the documentation I was referring to in my original post. Unless I'm missing something it looks like you have to use the REST API to actually create a Challenge? Is that correct or can it be done through the web interface?
Hello! Thanks for asking. Have you seen the documentation page here?   http://docs.synapse.org/articles/challenge_administration.html   Let me know if that's enough to get you started.

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