Managing members

Add team members and assign appropriate roles and permissions in your workspace.

Workspaces and projects

Felt's Workspaces and projects allow organizations to manage their members, maps, and data in one place. Within a Workspace you can create Projects for different teams and/or work projects. These Projects keep your maps organized.

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Creating your first workspace

After signing up for Felt you will be prompted to create a new workspace or join an existing one.

1. If your organization is not already using Felt, create a workspace by clicking on the Create a new workspace button:

2. Name the workspace after your organization.

3. Invite your coworkers by adding their emails. Click Send Invites. You can also add them later by clicking Invite members in Felt homepage.

Workspace permissions

You can invite teammates with the following licenses.

Viewer	Someone who can only view the workspace, project, or map. They can leave comments on maps for free but they will not see the Felt toolbar when viewing the map
Contributor	Someone who can edit data on maps where they're granted access, but cannot create new maps or upload data
Editor	Someone with permissions to create and manage maps or data in the workspace (can create new maps and upload data)

Key things to know

• Only Editors can be granted Admin access in the account. Admins have full access to workspace settings, billing, and managing members.

• There must be at least one Admin in the account at all times.

• You can rotate or swap licenses across members in the workspace when managing members.

• Permissions using Enterprise features are specified below.

Want a deeper dive? See Felt permissions

Managing permissions

In the members page, you can invite new members, change member licenses, assign specific permissions, review member limits, or remove members from the workspace.

Licenses are managed the far right column and set the highest level permissions the member can have in the account. This column counts towards the workspace limits set in the account. Admin access is granted via this drop-down menu as well.

Permissions can be managed separately and can be applied specifically to a project or map in the Workspace. A member's permissions can differ from the license, but cannot ever exceed the level set by their license. This allows you maximum flexibility to use your licenses with your team For example: an editor in the workspace can have contributor permissions in the workspace, or for specific projects and maps.

Manage email settings

To switch or change the email address for your account, navigate to https://felt.com/users/settings.

1. Click on your email address (you may be prompted to set a password first)

2. Enter your new email address

3. Click the confirmation link in the email sent to the new email address

Felt treats certain email variations as duplicates to prevent multiple accounts.

Removing a member

When you remove a member from the workspace, the following happens:

• The removed member is no longer able to login and access the workspace

• The removed member's Draft maps are transferred ownership to the admin who removed them

  • These drafts appear in a private project accessible to the admin

• Any private projects that are only accessible to the removed member are transferred ownership to the admin who removed them

• All maps created by the removed member transfer ownership to the admin who removed them

• All maps belonging to public projects and folders created by the removed member remain in their original place

Organize your maps

Create projects within the workspace to organize your maps for different teams and/or work projects.

Create a new project by clicking + Create Project when viewing your workspace

• Team visible projects can be seen and joined by anyone in the same workspace

• Private projects are invite-only and only seen by those invited

Moving maps

You can move maps or migrate maps to different projects in the workspace a few ways

• When viewing a map:

  • Click on the current Project next to the map title → select the target Project

  • Click Felt menu → File → Move map...

• When viewing your workspace: click on the ... → select move → select the target Project

Maps can only be duplicated across workspaces. The original map will remain in the original workspace. Once duplicated to the new workspace you can delete the original map in the older workspace.

Map folders

Within each project you can create folders to organize maps within the same project. You can create a new folder when viewing your project page. Folders can be nested.

Organize your data

You can publish data to your entire Workspace so new maps created within the workspace can access the same critical datasets. This saves you time uploading the same data on new maps and saves the style of that data layer across maps in the workspace.

To publish a data layer: click on the overflow menu: ... → Actions → Publish...

Select your workspace from the drop-down menu and click Publish

To learn more, see Layer library