Purple Manager: Team Management

purple manager summary purple manager is the central hub for managing teams and apps within the purple platform admins create teams, invite members, and assign roles such as account admin, app admin, hub editor, and editor users manage apps, set permissions, and collaborate efficiently this articles describers how team management works in purple manager introduction purple manager is the management interface for you and your team working within the purple platform no matter which component of purple you are using, purple manager is the starting point where you first need to have a team, an app and assign your users to it your team will be created by the purple staff and a user with administrator rights within that team can then invite and manage the team members this means that even if you only want your colleagues to work in the purple hub, a team will first be created in purple manager and the users must be created there so that they can start working in the desired component in purple manager's sidebar and under the 'teams' section, you can manage your team members, including their access permissions you can collectively work on apps and publish content in addition, you can invite and manage team members and assign every team member to a user role (permissions) you can find here a step by step guide how to invite a new user to your team in purple manager team management in the team menu of the purple manager, you will find the tabs 'members' and 'overview' the 'overview' tab is where you find contact and billing information, as well as a list of apps and publications in your account in most situations, you will not need to make any changes here the 'members' tab is where you can invite or remove team members and can also set their individual editing permissions inviting team members the first page of the members tab contains a list of your team members the blue 'invite' button serves for adding new members this opens a form where you can set the privileges for your new team member and send them an invitation to your team via e mail assigning roles and apps after clicking on "invite" (see screenshot above) the following screen opens email the email address of the person you want to assign roles and apps to role account admin when assigning this role, the user has all app manager and editor permissions they can create apps, manage team rights, and access exclusive purple manager and team settings when checking this checkbox, the user is account admin for the whole team and all associated apps to that team purple manager overview of roles & rights docid\ hbjhrxifyynkhjkpkv0tf role app admin when assigning this role, the user has abilities focused on configuring and managing apps app admins can manage assigned apps, send push messages, and create publications you have the options to select yes, selection assign a selection of apps for which the user should be app admin in point 7 below no disable that role for the user all apps this make the user hub editor for all apps associated to that team purple manager overview of roles & rights docid\ hbjhrxifyynkhjkpkv0tf role hub editor when assigning this role, it provides access for the user to both purple manager and purple hub, but focuses on purple hub tasks users can automatically log in to the related purple hub in purple manager, hub editors can view but not edit team apps and publications, similar to the member role you have the options to select yes, selection assign a selection of apps for which the user should be hub editor in point 7 below no disable that role for the user all apps this make the user hub editor for all apps associated to that team purple manager overview of roles & rights docid\ hbjhrxifyynkhjkpkv0tf role editor in this purple manager role, a user can manage all publications assigned to him/her, e g create new issues or publish issues in the live app yes, selection assign a selection of publications for which the user should be editor in point 8 below no disable that role for the user all publications this make the user editor for all publications associated to that team purple manager overview of roles & rights docid\ hbjhrxifyynkhjkpkv0tf app admin if you have selected next to point 3 app admin the option yes, selection , you can assign apps here on which the role should be applied for that user you can do so, by clicking on the arrow next to the name of the app in the list below available apps afterwards, the apps name will be visible in the list on the right below assigned apps hub editor if you have selected next to point 4 hub editor the option yes, selection , you can assign apps here on which the role should be applied for that user you can do so, by clicking on the arrow next to the name of the app in the list below available apps afterwards, the apps name will be visible in the list on the right below assigned apps editor if you have selected next to point 5 editor the option yes, selection , you can assign apps here on which the role should be applied for that user you can do so, by clicking on the arrow next to the name of the app in the list below available publications afterwards, the publications name will be visible in the list on the right below assigned publications invite by clicking on invite, an e mail with the invitation to join the purple platform with the assigned role will be sent if the person does not yet have a purple account, the registration can be started from the email if you invite a new team member to your purple manager team and you also have a purple hub connected, this new team member will be automatically added as with an editor role to your hub removing team members at some point, members of your team may not need to access purple any more being logged in with an account admin role, on the 'members' tab, you find a trash icon, that allows you to remove team members