Creating New Workspaces

In addition to the standard public workspace that is shared by all users, and the single private workspace that each user has, Arcadia Enterprise enables administrators and users who have the Create Workspace privilege to create custom workspaces.

These workspaces may be shared by specific users and user groups to develop and view dashboards that are inherently useful to their line of business. Within each of these workspaces, each user has a defined access level: View Only, Edit, or Manage. Users without a defined access level cannot see the workspace or any of its artifacts. All administrators have full privileges.

Developer Note. Only users with Create Workspace system-level privilege can perform this task.

The following steps demonstrate how to create a new custom workspace in Arcadia Enterprise. We will name it Rachel's Workspace.

  1. On the main navigation bar, click Visuals.
  2. On the left side menu, find the Workspaces section.

  3. Click on the (plus) icon. Note that this icon is only available to users who have the Create Workspace privilege.

  4. In the Create Workspace modal window, enter the Name and Description of the new workspace.

    We are naming the workspace Rachel's Workspace.

  5. [Optional]

    • In the (user) textbox, enter the account name of an existing user.
    • In the (group) textbox, enter the name of one or more existing user groups. To include everyone, type Everyone.

    If a user has a permission either through her username and group membership, or through multiple groups, that user has the broadest possible permissions. For example, if the user is part of "visual viewer" group and "dashboard editor" group (which has manage permission), that user has the manage permission.

  6. Note that as you enter a user or group name, the autocomplete functionality makes it easier to find an existing user or group.

  7. Click Add.

  8. After adding all users and user groups, select the appropriate type of access: View Only, Edit, or Manage.

    • View only

      Users with this privilege can see the contents of the workspace, and access them in view mode. However, they are unable to make any changes.

    • Edit

      Users with this privilege can move dashboards in and out of the workspace. With adequate dataset permissions, they can also edit, delete, or clone any visuals, dashboards, or apps within this workspace.

    • Manage

      Users with this privilege can change the name of the workspace, delete it when it is empty, add and remove users, and add and remove user groups. This also includes all Edit privileges.

    Note that the user admin is part of the access matrix, as the creator of this new workspace. If the creator is removed, and the creator is not an administrator, she loses access to this workspace.

  9. Click Save.
  10. The new workspace appears in the list of workspaces.

    Notice that it does not have any dashboards or visuals assigned to it at this time.

To change the properties of the workspace, see Changing Workspace Properties.

To remove the workspace, see Deleting Workspaces.