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User Management

Each organization can be considered as a collection of workspaces, members, teams as well as collaborations.

New organization#

To create a new organization, please follow the following steps

1. Click on the dropdown next to your name and select New organization to open the creation dialog.

2. On the dialog, fill in the fields as per your organization. The Name and Full name fields are compulsary.

Warning

A valid name for the organization must follow specific pattern. Please refer the UI for further instructions.

3. The rest of the fields such as Description, Location, Website URL and Logo Url are optional.

4. Once the details are filled-in, you can access the newly created organization using the organizations page, which lists all of your organizations.

Tip

It is possible to change the values of the optional fields either using the Edit option on the organizations page or using the Settings tab within the organization page, provided that you're the Owner of the organization

Note

A list of all the available Members, Teams and Collaborators can be found at the organization page.

Members#

Once an organization is created, the user who created the organization is the default owner of that organization. It is also possible to invite/add other members as well.

Tower, provides an access level for invited members of an organization by classifying them either as an Owner or a Member. Each organization can have multiple owners as well as members.

Note

Owners have full read/write access to all the users and resources within an organization, whereas a Member only has a limited access.

Create a new member#

To add a new member to an organization, please follow these steps

  1. Go to the Members tab of the organization menu
  2. Click on Invite member
  3. Enter the email ID of user you'd like to add to the organization

An e-mail invitiation would now be sent which needs to be accepted by the user, once they accept the invitation, they can switch to the organization (or organization workspace) using their workspace dropdown.

Collaborators#

Collaborators are users which are invited only within an organization workspace, as a result, their access is limited to only within this workspace in an organization.

New collaborators to an organization workspace can be added using the Participants. To further read the various available access levels for Participants, please refer the Organization Workspaces

Note

Collaborator can only be added within an organization workspace. For more information, please refer the workspace management section.

Teams#

Teams allows the organization owners to group various members and collaborators together into a single unit and to manage them as a whole.

Create a new team#

To create a new team within an organization, please follow these steps

  1. Go to the Teams tab of the organization menu
  2. Click on New team
  3. Enter the Name of team
  4. Optionally, add the Description and the team's Avatar
  5. For the newly created team, click on View
  6. Click on Add team member and type in the name of the organization members or collaborators