What is a workspace?
Acme organizes everything into three layers: your account, your organization, and your workspaces. Understanding how they fit together makes the rest of the app easier to navigate.
Account, organization, workspace
Section titled “Account, organization, workspace”These three things are separate, and each holds different settings:
- Your account is you — your name, email, avatar, and personal preferences (language and appearance). It travels with you no matter which workspace you’re in. See Account & profile.
- Your organization is the top-level container that owns billing, members, and one or more workspaces. Every organization has a single owner (usually the person who created it), plus any members who’ve been invited.
- A workspace is where day-to-day work happens. An organization can have one workspace or many, and each workspace has its own name, logo, and regional settings (timezone, time format, first day of week).
In short: your account belongs to you, an organization owns its workspaces, and you do your work inside a workspace.
The active workspace
Section titled “The active workspace”You can belong to more than one workspace, but you’re always working inside exactly one at a time — your active workspace.
The active workspace determines what you see and where new work goes. It’s shown in the workspace switcher at the top of the sidebar (the workspace name, with the organization name beneath it). To work in a different workspace, you change which one is active — see Switch workspaces.
How membership works
Section titled “How membership works”You don’t automatically belong to every workspace in your organization — you’re a member of specific workspaces, each with a role.
- When you create a workspace, you’re added to it automatically.
- When someone invites you or assigns you to a workspace, you become a member of it. See Invite members.
- Roles rank from lowest to highest: user, developer, admin, owner. Your role in a workspace controls what you can do there. Organization ownership is a separate axis on top of these roles — see Roles and permissions.
In the workspace switcher, the workspaces you own are grouped under Yours, and workspaces you were added to by someone else appear under Shared with you.