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A team is a shared workspace. Servers, apps and databases you create while working in a team belong to the team, not to you, and everyone in it works on the same set.

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Create a team

You need the Team plan to create a team. See Plans.
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Open the Team tab

Go to Settings and open the Team tab.
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Create it

Click Create Team and give it a name. You become its owner.
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Invite people

Under Invite someone, enter an email address, pick a role and click Send Invite.
The person gets an email with a link to join. They accept it while signed in to the Symplax account that uses that same email address.
An invite expires after 7 days. Sending a new invite to the same address replaces the pending one. Owners and admins can revoke a pending invite from the Team tab.
While you are on the Team plan, a team has no member limit. Plan limits inside a team, such as servers or deploys per day, follow the team owner’s plan, and they count the whole team’s usage.

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Roles

A team has exactly one owner. You invite people as Admin, Developer or Viewer, and the default is Developer.

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What each role can do

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Secrets

Only owners and admins see secrets: environment variable values, database passwords and deploy hook secrets. This holds whoever created the resource. Creating something inside a team does not make you its owner. Developers get two narrow exceptions so they can do their job:
  • Environment variables. A developer sees every variable name with its value masked. They can reveal one value at a time. Each reveal is recorded in the audit log with the variable’s name, never its value. If the record cannot be written, the reveal is refused. Reveals are rate limited.
  • Their own databases. A developer who created a database can read its password and connection string, as long as they are still a developer or admin on the team.
An API key without the secrets:read scope sees no secret at all, whoever owns it. See API keys.

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Server console

The server console is a root shell on the server, so only owners and admins can open it. If an admin is demoted or removed while a console is open, Symplax closes that console straight away.

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Access follows current membership

Access comes from your place in the team right now, not from what you created.
  • Removing a member takes away their access immediately, including to apps and databases they created themselves.
  • Their team API keys stop working. A key scoped to a team is refused once its owner is no longer a member of that team.
  • Changing a role takes effect on their next request. The member gets an email telling them their new role.
Owners and admins can remove any member except the owner. Any member can leave a team on their own.

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Delete a team

Only the owner can delete a team, from the Team tab.
You cannot delete a team that still owns servers, apps or databases. Symplax lists what is in the way. Remove those first, then delete the team.