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SynaptaGrid Portal documentation

Set up your workspace, manage people and access, provision applications, operate billing and connect the shared services around your products.

11 chapters · 12 min read

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.

  1. 01

    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.

  2. 02

    Review the dashboard

    Use the checklist and summary cards to see which account, member, subscription and application steps still need attention.

  3. 03

    Set organization details

    Add the organization name, contact details, logo, domains, timezone and other settings your role is allowed to change.

  4. 04

    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.

AreaWhat you do there
MembersFind a member, inspect their profile and review their current access.
InvitationsInvite a person, resend a pending invitation or revoke it before acceptance.
GroupsCollect members into a team and grant roles to the group. Removing a member removes the group-derived access.
Roles & accessReview 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.

FieldWhat it holds
Phone, job title, departmentStandard profile fields every member carries. Phone accepts international numbers with spaces, brackets and dashes.
Locale, timezone, preferred languageDisplay 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 centerOrganization facts kept on the membership, not the person. The manager must be another active member of the same organization.
Organization fieldsAny 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.

  1. 01

    Open Settings, then User attributes

    The page is visible to any member and editable only with the schema management permission.

  2. 02

    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.

  3. 03

    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.

  4. 04

    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.

  5. 05

    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.

  1. 01

    Choose an application

    Open Marketplace, review the product and confirm it is available under the organization’s plan and region.

  2. 02

    Provision an instance

    Start provisioning and follow the instance status. Do not repeatedly submit while the first request is still running.

  3. 03

    Review the instance

    Inspect version, status, launch URL and the controls available for that specific application instance.

  4. 04

    Apply instance settings

    Change the manifest-driven settings and overrides exposed to your role. Secret values remain masked after they are saved.

  5. 05

    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.

AreaUse it for
Billing overviewReview the current subscription, renewal and available plan changes.
InvoicesInspect status and line items, then download the invoice record.
Billing profileMaintain the organization’s billing address and supported payment details.
Usage & quotasCompare current consumption with the limits enforced by the active plan.
Buy creditsPurchase 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.

CapabilityPurpose
SAMLConnect an enterprise identity provider for single sign-on.
LDAP / Active DirectoryConnect a supported directory for enterprise authentication.
SCIMProvision and deprovision organization users from the customer identity system.
  1. 01

    Save the provider configuration

    Use Organization settings for the identity-provider identifiers, endpoints, certificates, directory connection or SCIM controls.

  2. 02

    Copy the Portal-side values

    Give the identity administrator the displayed SAML service-provider metadata or the SCIM endpoint and newly issued bearer token.

  3. 03

    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.

  4. 04

    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.

  1. 01

    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.

  2. 02

    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.

  3. 03

    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.

  4. 04

    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.

  5. 05

    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.

  6. 06

    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 itemRecord this
EnvironmentProduction base URL, region and separate Data and Automation application-instance identifiers.
OwnershipBusiness owner, technical owner, Integration operators group and escalation contact.
CredentialsKey name, product, minimum grants, expiry, source-IP rule and secret-manager reference.
EventsSubscription name, exact event types, destination, signing-secret reference and last successful test delivery id.
EvidenceSample record guid, workflow/run identifiers, delivery id and audit timestamp from the acceptance test.
RecoveryWhen 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.

AreaWhat it answers
Audit logWho performed an organization or application action, what changed and when.
Audit alertsWhich configured security conditions have produced an alert.
Notification templates & layoutsWhat a message says and how branded email chrome is applied.
Providers & identitiesWhich delivery service and sender identity carry each channel.
Notification logsWhether a message was attempted and how delivery finished.
Operations healthWhether 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.

SymptomCheck first
You cannot sign inConfirm the account, region and configured sign-in method; then use password recovery or the correct enterprise provider.
A page is missingCheck the member’s role and whether the active plan includes the feature.
A page says forbiddenThe session is valid but lacks the required permission or application-instance scope.
An invitation does not workConfirm it is still pending, was sent to the same email and has not been revoked or superseded.
An application will not openCheck instance readiness, launch URL and membership in the application context.
Billing did not updateInspect invoice and subscription state after payment-event processing completes.
A webhook or notification did not arriveInspect its delivery log before changing configuration or sending another request.
Portal reports a service unavailableCheck 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.

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