Organizations and roles
Why organizations?
Everything in SPL Cloud has an owner: measurements, jobs and SPL Sense instances. The owner is either a person or an organization.
An organization is a group of people who access measurements together: a company, a club, a festival or an authority. All members see the organization’s measurements, and when someone leaves the company, the data stays with the organization.
A person can be a member of several organizations, for example as a freelance technician working for several companies. When creating a job or registering an instance, you choose who should own it.
Roles
| Owner | Member | |
|---|---|---|
| See the organization’s measurements and jobs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create jobs, assign measurements | ✓ | ✓ |
| Register SPL Sense instances for the organization | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grant read access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remote control the organization’s instances (with Pro) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add and remove members, change roles | ✓ | |
| Change the organization’s name, address and logo | ✓ | |
| Manage payment method and invoices | ✓ |
An organization always has at least one owner.
Anyone who should only view data, for example an organizer or an authority, does not become a member but gets read access.
Creating an organization
- Settings › Create Organization.
- Enter Name, address and E-Mail Address. The Billing language determines the language of invoices and payment pages.
- Save. You are now the owner of the organization.
Managing members
On the organization’s page:
- Add Member.
- Search for the person by email address. They must already have an SPL Cloud account.
- Choose the Role: Owner or Member. Save.
Clicking a member opens it: change the role or Remove Member.
Logo
The organization’s logo appears in the PDF reports of its measurements. Upload logo (image file up to 5 MB), Change logo or Remove logo.
Typical setups
Individual: a technician with her own sensor and laptop, without an organization. Instance and measurements belong to her personally. She gives the organizer read access to the measurement.
Technical company: the company has an organization; all laptops and Raspberry Pis are registered as instances of the organization. All employees are members and see all measurements. At a festival, a job groups the measuring points; the authority gets read access to the whole job, the operator of a stage to their measurement.
Rented devices: if a device is rented out and should belong to the renting company for the rental period, change the owner of the instance, see SPL Sense instances.