What is a workspace?
A workspace in Shade is a central location where you can bring together yourself, your team, your projects, and your assets. It is composed of drives and users. Think of it as a team where you add users who will be involved in multiple projects.
Users can be assigned different permissions within a workspace. Workspace Admins have the ability to add members, view billing and usage details. Members are part of the core team and can easily access multiple drives.
Workspace admins have the flexibility to manage different drives, including editing details, changing locations, and more. Members can create new drives for themselves and the team, as well as invite guests to specific drives or folders.
Why do we have workspaces?
Workspaces allow us to unify users under one team and have multiple drives connected to one workspace. This allows for two things
- It makes it super easy to manage permissions across drives
- It makes it super easy to unify billing across an entire organization
- It is valuable for security and audit logging of what happens across all files and assets across an organization.
💡 Workspaces can have as many drives of any type. However, given the location of the drive, and the location of the user, certain drives may or may not be visible to that user (for example, a user might not be able to see a catalogue drive if they are not in the same network or if they don’t have access to the mounts)
What are you billed for?
You are billed for the total sum of your workspace admins and members in your workspace. This means that any members or admins that are added at the workspace level are a billable seat of Shade.
Creating a New Workspace - First Time
The first time you start up Shade, Shade will walk you through a set up process to get you started on your first workspace, depending on your purposes and goals, follow the steps accordingly. To see more use cases, check out the examples on the Understand the Structure page.
Creating Additional Workspaces
Workspaces can be quickly created by heading over to your workspace icon, hitting Create or Join A New Workspace, and following through a similar set up process that you went through before.
You are only allowed one personal workspaces, all additional workspaces will be team workspaces that you can trial.