Add and Manage Members in Your Workspace
A guide for Admins and Insights Lead to invite, manage, and remove members in a workspace.
🔑 What permissions are needed?
- Admins can invite and manage all roles.
- Insights Leads can invite and manage Field Reporters.
- Field Reporters, Guests, and Viewers cannot manage workspace members.
Step One: Go to the People Page
- Navigate to your workspace
- On desktop: Click on your workspace name in the left navigation panel.
- On mobile: Press the menu button in the top left, then select your workspace name.
- Select the "Settings" menu
- This will open your Workspace settings options.
- Select the “People” tab
- This is where you can manage your members and team.
Step Two: Invite Members
- Click "Invite new members to workspace"
- A form will appear where you can:
- Select a role
- Enter the email address
- Send an invitation
- A form will appear where you can:
đź’ˇ Note:
- Insights Leads can only add Field Reporters.
- Admins can add Insights Leads and other Admins.
- Learn more about Folktale roles & permissions.
- Pending Invitations
- Once sent, the invitee appears under the Pending section.
- Once accepted, they appear under Current members.
- Alternative: Create a Workspace-Managed Account (WMA)
- Ideal for Field Reporters without email access.
- Can be created by an Admin or Insights Lead.
- Learn more about WMAs.
Step Three: Manage Your Members
- Managing Pending Invitations
- Click the menu button next to a pending invite.
- You can resend or withdraw the invitation.
- Editing Roles
- You can change a member's role anytime by clicking on their role.
⚠️ Important:
- New members can no longer be assigned the Contributor role.
- Once changed, you cannot revert a member back to Contributor.
Step Four: Remove Members
- Click the menu button next to the member’s name.
- Select "Remove member".
Next Steps
- Create & assign members to teams
- Learn how to manage teams.
- Prepare story invitations for your team
- Create a Story Invitation.
- Create a Story Preset.