Spaces
Space is where you as an organization collaborate, manage access, subscriptions, licenses and track your blocks and its details. Manage everything related to Appblocks in one space. Helps your organizations and teams to collaboratively work on applications and blocks and allows you to manage accesses of all these, all in one workspace.
When you create an Appblocks account, a space is created by default. All your activities will reflect here unless you create new spaces or are invited to others.
Manage Blocks
Using Spaces
Create
- To create a new space, you can do either of the following:
- Click on Create New inside the Home page list
- Click on Create New Space on the Spaces list in side menu
- After getting to the page for creating a new space, enter the space name, choose whether it is personal or business
- Fill in the appropriate details, read and accept the terms and conditions and create a new space.
View
- All your created spaces will be shown in the following:
- Home page (short list)
- Spaces in the side menu, where you can also search by name.
- List of spaces if you click Space on the left menu bar
Edit
- To edit a space, go to a space and go to the settings tab in the page
- After getting to this tab, you can edit all details except the space type (personal or business).
Within a Space
You can enter a space by choosing it from the list in the home page or from the list of spaces in the side menu on the left.
Apps
- You can see the list of apps in this particular space. Create and edit apps from here.
- Each block you purchase will be associated with an app as it is meant to be used in a project, but your own blocks may or may not have an association with any app. To make use of an block, it has to be a part of an App.
- Each space members' access to an app can be customised/restricted by the space owner.
- Multiple applications can be run within a space.
Members
- You can see the list of members added to this particular space (as a space owner or depending on your permissions).
- You can invite new members to collaborate (as a space owner or depending on your permissions)
- You can remove members from this space if your permissions allow you to. You can also add policies (as a space owner or depending on your permissions)
Teams
- You can see the list of teams in this particular space (as a space owner or depending on your permissions).
- You can create and edit new teams by adding and removing members to it (as a space owner or depending on your permissions).
- From teams, you can manage team accesses and add new policies as well.
Role Management
- You can see the list of roles of members in this particular space (as a space owner or depending on your permissions).
- You can create and edit new roles by assigning and unassigning it to members (as a space owner or depending on your permissions).
- Based on the roles, you can manage accesses and add policies as well.
Permissions and ACL
Permissions is a group of policies that can be granted to members of a space by the admins of the same.
ACL (access control list) are policies that can be handpicked and granted to the members of a space by the admins of the same.
Members ACL shows a comprehensive view of all the accesses a member has received across the space.
For access controls more specific to a block or an app with respect to a member, the corresponding ACLs can be used.
Permissions
Permissions are groups of existing policy groups.It helps the user to manage ACL more efficiently.
Settings
- You can view and edit the chosen space here.