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Topic 10

How Teams and Workspaces Stay Organized

Jena4 gives each person an organization-wide role, while workspaces keep Development, Staging, Production, or other operating contexts distinct.

One team, three contexts

The people may be the same. The work should not be mixed together.

A new Jena4 account begins with an organization and a Development workspace. As the company grows into Staging and Production, workspaces keep each context’s decisions, supporting information, connection credentials, and notification setup organized separately, while the organization’s team and role structure remains consistent.

How people enter

Access begins with the intended person—not a shared password.

01An invitation is sent

An owner or administrator invites someone into an allowed role. Owner access is not assigned by invitation, and administrators cannot grant administrator access.

02The recipient confirms access

The invitation must be accepted by the invited email address within seven days.

03They sign in without a password

Jena4 sends an eight-digit code or secure link. A link requires an explicit confirmation before sign-in completes.

Signup and invitation requests include a security check. If that check cannot be confirmed, Jena4 blocks the request and makes clear that no email was sent.

Four organization roles

Administrative control, contribution, and review remain distinct.

  • Owner

    Holds protected organization control and cannot be changed or removed through the current team controls.

  • Administrator

    Manages team access and settings, but cannot manage another administrator or grant administrator access.

  • Member

    Creates and maintains governed decisions and their supporting information.

  • Viewer

    Reviews the organization’s governed information without changing it.

People cannot change or remove their own membership through these controls. Those guardrails reduce accidental loss of access or unintended elevation of authority.

What a workspace separates

Workspaces organize operating contexts. They are not separate membership silos.

Inside each workspaceIts own operational material

Governed decisions, supporting information, connection credentials, and notification configuration remain attached to the relevant context.

Across the organizationOne role for each person

An organization member’s role applies across its workspaces rather than changing separately for Development, Staging, or Production.

A current boundary

One person currently belongs to one customer organization.

Jena4 does not currently support the same account belonging to multiple customer organizations. Teams should plan invitations and account ownership around that present boundary.