Chapter 1 of 11
Set up your workspace
Portal is the administrative home for your organization. Start here before opening Data or Automation for day-to-day product work.
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Complete onboarding
Confirm the organization details, selected plan and data region. If checkout is required, the success page returns you to the same onboarding flow.
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Review the dashboard
Use the checklist and summary cards to see which account, member, subscription and application steps still need attention.
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Set organization details
Add the organization name, contact details, logo, domains, timezone and other settings your role is allowed to change.
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Check your own profile
Keep personal name, timezone, password and account preferences separate from organization-wide settings.
Chapter 2 of 11
Manage members, groups and roles
Control who belongs to the organization and grant access through roles and groups instead of maintaining one-off permission lists.
| Area | What you do there |
|---|---|
| Members | Find a member, inspect their profile and review their current access. |
| Invitations | Invite a person, resend a pending invitation or revoke it before acceptance. |
| Groups | Collect members into a team and grant roles to the group. Removing a member removes the group-derived access. |
| Roles & access | Review the permission matrix, assign shipped roles and maintain organization-defined custom roles. |
- Grant the narrowest role that supports the person’s work; product and administration permissions are separate.
- Use groups for access that follows a department, review board or operating team.
- Treat custom roles as organization-owned. Application releases do not overwrite them.
- A role can be scoped to an application instance, so access to one tenant application does not imply access to every instance.
Chapter 3 of 11
Organisation user fields
A member profile carries a standard set of fields, and an organization can define extra fields of its own. Both are kept once per membership, validated on every save, and usable in access policies.
| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Phone, job title, department | Standard profile fields every member carries. Phone accepts international numbers with spaces, brackets and dashes. |
| Locale, timezone, preferred language | Display preferences. Locale and language use language tags such as en-GB; the timezone is an IANA zone name chosen from the same list the rest of the workspace uses. |
| Manager, employee number, cost center | Organization facts kept on the membership, not the person. The manager must be another active member of the same organization. |
| Organization fields | Any field your organization defines, keyed by its code. Values are stored per membership, so one person in two organizations has two independent sets. |
Members edit their own profile fields and the organization fields marked as self-editable from their profile page; fields the organization manages are shown there read-only. An administrator holding member management permission edits every field for a member, including the manager, employee number and cost center, from the member profile. Every save is validated: an unknown field, a value of the wrong type, a choice outside the defined options or a missing required field is refused with a message that names the field, and nothing is stored.
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Open Settings, then User attributes
The page is visible to any member and editable only with the schema management permission.
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Define a field
Give it a code (lowercase letters, digits and underscores, fixed after creation), a label, a type and optional help text and display order.
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Choose the type
Text, whole number, decimal, yes/no, single choice, multiple choice, date, web address or email address. Choice types take a list of options.
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Decide who may set it
Mark it required if every member must carry a value, self-editable if members may change their own value, and available to access policies if roles and permissions may depend on it.
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Retire it when it is no longer needed
Deleting a field hides its stored values rather than erasing them; restoring the field shows them again. Use Show deleted fields to find and restore one.
- Values marked available to access policies can be referenced by a role or permission rule, so access can follow a region, a cost center or any field you define.
- A field is retired, never renamed. To change a code, define a new field and migrate the values.
- SynaptaGrid operators can view your field definitions and members’ values but cannot edit them; only your organization does.
- A request to erase a member’s personal data clears all of these fields and removes the member as anyone else’s manager.
Chapter 4 of 11
Provision and configure applications
The marketplace shows what can be added; Applications shows what this organization already runs.
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Choose an application
Open Marketplace, review the product and confirm it is available under the organization’s plan and region.
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Provision an instance
Start provisioning and follow the instance status. Do not repeatedly submit while the first request is still running.
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Review the instance
Inspect version, status, launch URL and the controls available for that specific application instance.
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Apply instance settings
Change the manifest-driven settings and overrides exposed to your role. Secret values remain masked after they are saved.
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Launch the product
Open Data or Automation from the ready instance. The organization and application-instance context travel with the launch.
Chapter 5 of 11
Manage subscriptions, invoices and usage
Portal keeps plan state, invoice history, payment details, quotas and purchasable credits in one account-facing surface.
| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Billing overview | Review the current subscription, renewal and available plan changes. |
| Invoices | Inspect status and line items, then download the invoice record. |
| Billing profile | Maintain the organization’s billing address and supported payment details. |
| Usage & quotas | Compare current consumption with the limits enforced by the active plan. |
| Buy credits | Purchase an available one-time credit pack, such as AI usage credits. |
Chapter 6 of 11
Configure sign-in and provisioning
Enterprise identity settings are organization controls. They appear only when both the plan and your role allow them.
| Capability | Purpose |
|---|---|
| SAML | Connect an enterprise identity provider for single sign-on. |
| LDAP / Active Directory | Connect a supported directory for enterprise authentication. |
| SCIM | Provision and deprovision organization users from the customer identity system. |
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Save the provider configuration
Use Organization settings for the identity-provider identifiers, endpoints, certificates, directory connection or SCIM controls.
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Copy the Portal-side values
Give the identity administrator the displayed SAML service-provider metadata or the SCIM endpoint and newly issued bearer token.
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Validate the connection
Use Test connection for LDAP. For SAML or SCIM, verify with a controlled user before relying on the integration for the wider organization.
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Roll out deliberately
Communicate the cutover and keep a tested recovery path until the customer confirms normal access.
Chapter 7 of 11
Operate API keys and webhooks
Give each integration its own credential and event subscription so it can be rotated, limited or disabled independently.
- Create an API key with only the actions and application context the consumer needs.
- Copy a new or rotated secret immediately. Portal does not reveal the plaintext again.
- Use separate keys for separate integrations; do not share one organization-wide key.
- Create webhook subscriptions only for the events the receiver processes.
- Inspect the subscription and delivery state before retrying or changing the destination.
- Rotate credentials before ownership changes or expiry, then revoke the previous value after the consumer has moved.
Chapter 8 of 11
Worked example: hand off a production integration
Prepare a production Data-to-Automation connection for an integration team without sharing administrator access or one long-lived organization credential.
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Provision both products deliberately
Provision the production Data and Automation instances separately. Wait for each asynchronous request to reach ready and record each launch URL and application-instance identifier.
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Create the operating group
Create an Integration operators group, add the named maintainers and assign only the product roles they need, scoped to the production application instances.
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Issue one credential per caller
Open each product’s integration screen. Create a Data key for record read/write and an Automation key for the specific workflow start/read actions; store each plaintext once in the caller’s secret manager.
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Subscribe the receiver
Create only the required outbound event subscriptions, save the signing secret in the receiver and allowlist the exact event types and sources.
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Prove the complete path
Create a controlled Data record, start or trigger the workflow, use test delivery, inspect the delivery log and confirm the receiver deduplicates a repeated event.
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Transfer ownership
Give the operating team coordinates, grants, expiry, secret-manager references, test evidence, recovery instructions and the correlation identifiers. Never put the plaintext secrets in a ticket or handoff document.
| Handoff item | Record this |
|---|---|
| Environment | Production base URL, region and separate Data and Automation application-instance identifiers. |
| Ownership | Business owner, technical owner, Integration operators group and escalation contact. |
| Credentials | Key name, product, minimum grants, expiry, source-IP rule and secret-manager reference. |
| Events | Subscription name, exact event types, destination, signing-secret reference and last successful test delivery id. |
| Evidence | Sample record guid, workflow/run identifiers, delivery id and audit timestamp from the acceptance test. |
| Recovery | When to retry, reconcile, redrive, restart a step or contact the product owner. |
Chapter 9 of 11
Review audit, notifications and operations
Use the shared operating surfaces to explain changes, validate communications and spot asynchronous work that needs attention.
| Area | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Audit log | Who performed an organization or application action, what changed and when. |
| Audit alerts | Which configured security conditions have produced an alert. |
| Notification templates & layouts | What a message says and how branded email chrome is applied. |
| Providers & identities | Which delivery service and sender identity carry each channel. |
| Notification logs | Whether a message was attempted and how delivery finished. |
| Operations health | Whether queued platform work is progressing or accumulating failures. |
Chapter 10 of 11
Manage AI access and support
Portal centralizes organization AI administration and the support relationship without mixing either one into Data or Automation permissions.
- Review AI credit balance, allocations and usage before increasing access or purchasing more credits.
- Configure supported model keys and MCP connections only for the organization or user scope intended.
- Grant an AI agent at organization level before assigning its allowed tools to individual users.
- Use corpora for governed knowledge sources and verify who can query each one.
- Create a support ticket with the affected product, application instance, time and visible error.
- Use the knowledge base for known procedures and the ticket timeline for the authoritative support record.
Chapter 11 of 11
Troubleshoot Portal access
Start by separating authentication, membership, permission, entitlement and dependency failures. They require different fixes.
| Symptom | Check first |
|---|---|
| You cannot sign in | Confirm the account, region and configured sign-in method; then use password recovery or the correct enterprise provider. |
| A page is missing | Check the member’s role and whether the active plan includes the feature. |
| A page says forbidden | The session is valid but lacks the required permission or application-instance scope. |
| An invitation does not work | Confirm it is still pending, was sent to the same email and has not been revoked or superseded. |
| An application will not open | Check instance readiness, launch URL and membership in the application context. |
| Billing did not update | Inspect invoice and subscription state after payment-event processing completes. |
| A webhook or notification did not arrive | Inspect its delivery log before changing configuration or sending another request. |
| Portal reports a service unavailable | Check operations or system status; do not repeatedly change access settings for a dependency failure. |
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See how the other product fits
Data and Automation are sold separately and work independently. Use both when a workflow should read or change a versioned business record.