Administration
Administration
Topographer gives each customer an organization with its own projects and people. This section covers the pages organization admins use: projects, teams, roles, users, the activity log and organization settings.
How access works
- An organization holds your projects, teams and users. You can belong to more than one organization and switch between them.
- A project holds surveys, reports, portfolios and credentials. Most work in the dashboard happens inside one project.
- A team is a group of people. Each team grants one or more roles, and reaches either all projects or a chosen set of projects.
- A role is a fixed list of permissions. There are three: Admin, Member and Viewer.
- A user is a person in the organization. A person reaches a project only through a team that reaches it, and can do there what that team’s roles allow.
Every organization has two built-in teams: Admins (Admin role, all projects) and Members (Member role, all projects). The person who creates the organization joins Admins. Everyone else joins the teams chosen when they are invited. See Teams and roles for what each role can do.
Find the admin pages
Open the menu (☰) in the top bar of any project page. The Organization group lists the admin pages you are allowed to open:
| Menu item | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Activity | The organization’s activity log |
| Projects | Create, rename, delete and restore projects |
| Teams | Create teams and set their roles, projects and members |
| Users | Invite people, see their teams, remove them |
| Settings | Organization name and data retention |
Each admin page also shows a tab strip in the order Users, Teams, Projects, Activity, Settings, so you can move between them without the menu. The tab strip appears when you can open at least two of these pages.
The Project group of the same menu has Settings for the current project, and the Account group has your name, which opens your own preferences. For a tour of the rest of the dashboard, see Find your way around.
Who can open each page
Pages you cannot open do not appear in the menu. If you follow a link to one, the dashboard shows “Access Denied”.
| Page | Who can open it | Permission |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | Admin, Member, Viewer | org:view_activity_log |
| Projects | Admin, Member, Viewer | org:view |
| Users | Admin, Member, Viewer | org:view |
| Teams | Admin | org:manage_teams |
| Organization settings | Admin | org:manage_org |
| Project settings | Admin, Member, on projects their team reaches | project:admin |
Buttons on a page follow the same rule. For example, everyone can see the Users list, but only an Admin sees Invite Users and the remove button.