Organisation
What your organisation is, how its workspaces sit inside it, and what lives at each level.
Everything in SPARK lives inside a workspace, and every workspace belongs to an organisation. The organisation is your company's account: who signs in, where the data is hosted and what can be used, set once for all of its workspaces. The workspace is where the work happens.
The organisation
Your organisation is set up with your company's identity provider, the system your people already sign in with. It holds one or more workspaces, and three things are set once for all of them, under Organisation in Settings:
- General: the organisation's ID, where it is hosted and where its data is stored. See Hosting & data regions.
- Workspaces: every workspace in the organisation, where administrators rename, archive, restore and delete them. See Manage the organization's workspaces.
- Limits & Quotas: what the organisation can use, counted across all of its workspaces. See Limits & Quotas.
If you belong to more than one organisation, the workspace menu at the top of the sidebar offers Switch organisation; choosing another signs you in to it.
Workspaces
A workspace holds its own data objects, canvases, tasks, files, workflows, agents, channels and threads, Spaces and members, and its add-ons, such as the Mailbox and Managed SFTP, are switched on for it alone.
It is also the boundary for its data: nothing crosses from one workspace into another. That is why production and a sandbox, or two entities that must not share data, each get a workspace of their own. The one exception is a Space shared with guests: people outside the workspace see that Space, and only it.
People join a workspace as members, and one person can belong to several. The workspace menu at the top of the sidebar moves between them, and each switch is a separate context.
What lives where
| Level | What lives there | In Settings |
|---|---|---|
| Organisation | Sign-in through your identity provider, the hosting and data region, the list of workspaces, and the limits they share | Organisation: General, Workspaces, Limits & Quotas |
| Workspace | Data objects, canvases, tasks, files, workflows, agents, channels and threads, Spaces, members, roles and teams, and the extensions switched on | Workspace: General, Spaces, Members, Channels, Roles, Teams, and Extensions |
| You | Your own picture, name, theme, density and language | Account: Profile |
Where to go next
- Set up the workspace you are in: Workspace settings
- Where the organisation's data is hosted: Hosting & data regions
- What the organisation can use: Limits & Quotas
- Who is in a workspace: Members