Creating and managing teams

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Any collaborator within an organization can create teams. Teams allow for better management of collaborators and app permissions.

Creating teams

Any collaborator can create teams within an organization. Organizations can have multiple teams but each team belongs to only one organization. To create a team:

1. On the left side navigation, select your organization
2. Select People
3. Select Teams
4. Click on the Add New Team button
5. Enter a team name
6. Click Create Team button

Adding users to a team

The team creator or any organization admin can invite other collaborators to a team. Users must join the organization before they can join a team.

Note

Invites are active for 30 days. You can send a new invite if the previous one wasn't accepted.

Removing users from a team

The team creator or any organization admin can remove users from a team.

Adding the team to an app

The team creator, any app manager, or any organization admin can add a team to an app. When a team is added to an app, all users of the team gain access to the app with the team's assigned role.

There are two ways to add a team to an app:

In team setting

1. On the left side navigation, select the team organization
2. Select People
3. Select Teams
4. Select the team you wish to add to an app
5. In the top navigation, select Apps
6. In the search box, type the app name you wish to add

In app setting

1. In the dashboard, select the app you wish to add a team to
2. In the left navigation, select Settings
3. Click on Collaborators
4. Type the team you wish to add to the app

Removing the team from an app:

The team creator or any organization admin can remove a team from an app and the team member's permission to the app will be revoked. There are two ways to remove a team from an app:

In team setting

1. In the left side navigation, select the team organization
2. Select People.
3. Click on Teams
4. Select the team you wish to add to an app
5. Select APPS in the top navigation
6. Hover your cursor to the app you want to remove and click on the delete icon on the right

In app setting

1. In the dashboard, select the app you wish to add a team to
2. In the left navigation, select Settings
3. Select Collaborators.
4. Hover your cursor to the app you want to remove and click on the delete icon on the right

Changing Permissions

The team creator or any org admin can change the app permission of the team. Only admins can change permissions of an individual user.

Permission levels

• Manager - invite members and access settings
• Developer - manage services (e.g. create builds, run tests)
• Viewer - view and download app data

Note

Users get the highest permission assigned (team level or app level).

Leaving a team

Users can leave a team upon confirmation and will lose access to any apps associate with the team. The team creator can't leave the team. The only option is to delete the team.

Deleting a team

The team creator or any admin can delete a team. All users in the team will have app permissions revoked.