🎛️ Workspaces
The Workspace is your starting point on Softr and the place where you organize all your applications and collaborate with others.
When you log into your Softr account, you are taken to your workspace, which contains all the workspace applications as well as links to some useful resources on the left sidebar.
By default, you’ll have at least one workspace where your first application resides. You can add more applications to your workspace, create new workspaces, or join other workspaces as a collaborator. So, let’s add a new workspace and see what the setup looks like.
You can add a new workspace from the menu in the bottom left corner of the dashboard.
In the pop-up that opens next, you should provide a workspace name and can also add a custom icon.
Next, you can invite your first collaborators or skip this step.
Workspace collaborators can access and edit all the applications in the workspace. However, they can’t move (to another workspace) or remove any of the applications. Additionally, they can invite new workspace collaborators but can’t remove them.
In the “Overview of workspace roles and permissions” section of this article you can find a detailed overview of each role’s permissions.
All your workspaces will be available in the bottom left-side menu, where you can also switch between them. The current workspace along with its Settings, Members, and Billing options, will be shown under Active Workspace.
Workspace settings
In Workspace settings, as a workspace Owner, you can modify the name of the workspace as well as customize its icon.
Workspace collaborators
In the Collaborators tab, you can invite new workspace collaborators, configure the permissions of the existing ones, and more.
The option to invite new collaborators is available to both the owner and existing collaborators on the workspace.
When you click on a collaborator entry in the list, a pop-up with the collaborator’s profile will open.
If you’re the workspace Owner, you can see what permissions the collaborator has and can make changes to them. In the screenshot above, we have a guest collaborator (we’ll discuss this role in a bit), which means that this person only has access to specific app(s) within the workspace. In such cases, you have the option of adding the guest collaborator as a workspace collaborator to grant access to the whole workspace.
Using the Revoke access from all option, you can remove the given account from all of the applications in the workspace at once.
Workspace plans and billing
Each workspace has its distinct subscription plan, and all the workspace collaborators can use the features that are available under that subscription plan. You can get familiar with the details of each plan on our pricing page.
In the Plans and billing section of the workspace, you can make changes to your subscription plan (e.g. upgrade it) or modify your billing info. You can learn more about this in our articles on billing and pricing.
Only workspace owners have access to the “Plans and billing” section of the workspace.
Guest collaborators
Now, let’s discuss the third role we have on workspaces apart from the Owner and Collaborator. It’s called a Guest Collaborator and is basically an application-level collaborator that has access to specific application(s) within the workspace but not the whole workspace.
You can invite Guest Collaborators directly from the application by clicking on the corresponding button on the application as shown below.
The button will open a pop-up where you can enter the email of the guest and send an invite.
Guest collaborators only have access to the application they have been invited to and can’t access any other app in the workspace.
It’s also possible to add Guest Collaborators from inside the app as shown below.
Overview of workspace roles and permissions
We’ve briefly discussed some of the things different workspace roles can and can’t do, but here you can find a complete list of permissions for each role.
Owner can
Edit/delete workspace;
Modify the workspace subscription plan and change billing info;
Add/remove Collaborators;
Add/remove Guest Collaborators;
Create, move, and delete apps within the workspace.
Collaborator (workspace collaborator) can
Leave the workspace;
Add another Collaborator;
Add a Guest Collaborator;
Create an app within the workspace.
Guest collaborator (application collaborator) can
Leave the workspace.
Moving applications
This option is only available to workspace Owners, allowing them to move the application from one of the workspaces they own to another workspace where they are either an Owner or a Collaborator.
The application Transfer Ownership feature has been deprecated. To achieve the same, you can become a collaborator on someone else's workspace and move an application there, thus providing the receiving party with full ownership of the app.
When moving an application from one workspace to another, the receiving workspace needs to satisfy certain conditions depending on the features that your application has:
If the application has 2 or more Edit Permission rules OR a Single Sign-on block (SAML or OpenId), only Business plan workspaces can receive the application.
If the application has more than 5 users, the receiving workspace needs to be either Professional or Business.
If the application has a custom code block, the following subscription plans can receive it: Starter, Professional, and Business.
If the application doesn't contain any of the above-mentioned features, any plan (including the Free plan) can receive it.
When moving an application, Guest Collaborators will be moved along with the app. All the connected data sources will still be available after moving the app (you can disconnect them before moving if this is a concern).
Duplicating and deleting applications
If you need to make a copy of an existing application in its current state, you can do so by choosing Duplicate in the application menu.
After performing the action, a copy of the application will be created, and you’ll be taken right into the studio, where you can start editing. The copy will appear in the same workspace next to the original one.
Both workspace Owners and Collaborators can duplicate applications.
Finally, you have the option of deleting any of the applications with the workspace if you’re the workspace Owner. You just need to click Delete in the application menu and confirm the action in the dialog box that appears afterwards.
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