Organizations
Structure your company in the i3D.net Console, give the right people access to the right servers, and consolidate multiple i3D accounts into one organization.
An Organization is your company inside the i3D.net Console. It groups your billing accounts, your servers, and the people who are allowed to see them.
Every customer has one. If you have never done anything with organizations, one was created for you automatically the first time you signed in — you don't need to set anything up, and nothing about your day-to-day work changes.
Organizations become useful when you are more than one team. Instead of running several separate i3D accounts and sharing logins between developers, you can:
Describe your real structure — create organizational units for studios, departments, regions or teams inside your organization.
Invite people once — a member invited at one point in the structure automatically has access to everything beneath it.
See a joined-up view — from the top of your structure you see every server across every unit; from a single unit you see only that unit's servers.
Bring existing accounts together — if your company has ended up with several separate i3D accounts over the years, you can consolidate them into one organization.
How access works
Two rules explain almost everything:
Access flows downward, never upward or sideways. A member added to Studio A can see Studio A and everything underneath it. They cannot see a sibling Studio B node, even though both sit under the same parent. Someone added at the top of your organization can see everything.
You are added at exactly one place. Where someone is added decides what they can see. If a colleague should see one studio only, invite them to that studio — not to the top of your organization.
Key terms
Organization
Your company in the Console. Owns billing accounts, servers, and members.
Organizational unit
A team, studio, department or region inside your organization. Behaves like an organization in its own right and can have organizational units of its own.
Organization ID
The Console's own identifier for your organization — a long string of letters and digits, for example 019fefb7-e7df-77a6-8443-f5c80d181c42. Shown under your organization name. It is not your account number, and billing does not use it.
Billing account / K-number
Your account number, for example K012345. This is the identifier i3D.net billing recognizes, and it belongs to a billing account rather than to the organization. An organization can hold more than one — see Importing an organization.
Member
Anyone with access to your organization or one of its organizational units.
Admin
A member who can change settings, invite people, manage members and create organizational units. You can have more than one.
Owner
The person who originally created the organization. Shown for reference — it isn't a permission level.
Invitation
An email that lets someone join your organization. It expires if it isn't used.
Import / combine
Bringing another i3D organization hierarchy — its billing account, servers and members — into yours.
Finding your way around
Left-hand navigation
Services → Servers — your server list.
Organization Management → Overview — your organization's name, ID, settings, administrators and structure.
Organization Management → Members — the people in your organization, and the invitations you've sent.
My Profile — your user details.
Organization switcher (top of the page)
The switcher shows the organization or organizational unit you are currently working in. Everything on screen — servers, members, settings — is shown for this organization. The switcher is the main component you use to navigate between the organizational units in your organization.
Click it to see everything you have access to, grouped by top-level organization.
If you have more than five, a search box appears.
Selecting a different one shows a short Switching Organization screen and then reloads the page in the new context.
If you only belong to one organization, the switcher simply shows its name.
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