7. Organizations¶

7.1.1. Organizations - Users¶

Clicking on Users (beside Details when viewing your organization), displays all the Users associated with this Organization. A User is someone with access to Tower with associated roles and Credentials. Adding a user to an organization adds them as a member only, specifying a role for the user can be done in the the Permissions tab.

As you can manage the user membership for this Organization here, you can manage user membership on a per-user basis from the Users page by clicking the Users () icon from the left navigation bar. The user list from the Organizations view may be sorted by username. Use the Tower Search to search for users by various attributes. Click Key for using the search, or refer to the Search chapter for more information.

Clicking on a user brings up that user’s details, allowing you to review, grant, edit, and remove associated permissions for that user. For more information, refer to Users.

7.1.1.1. Add a User¶

In order to add a user to an organization, the user must already be created in Tower. Refer to Create a User to create a user. To add existing users to the Organization:

1. Click the button.

2. Select one or more users from the list of available users by clicking the check box next to the user(s) to add them as members of the organization.

   

In this example, two users have been selected to be added to this organization.

3. Click the Save button when done.

7.1.2. Organizations - Permissions¶

Clicking on Permissions (beside Users when viewing your organization), allows you to easily manage the permissions for this organization.

Organizations have a unique set of roles not described here. You can assign specific users certain levels of permissions within your organization, or allow them to act as an admin for a particular resource. Refer to Role-Based Access Controls for more information.

The Permissions tab allows you to review, grant, edit, and remove associated permissions for users as well as team members. To assign permissions to a particular user for this resource:

1. Click the Permissions tab.

2. Click the button to open the Add Users/Teams window.

3. Specify the users or teams that will have access then assign them specific roles:

1. Click to select one or multiple check boxes beside the name(s) of the user(s) or team(s) to select them.

Note

You can select multiple users and teams at the same time by navigating between the Users and Teams tabs without saving.

After selections are made, the window expands to allow you to select a role from the drop-down menu list for each user or team you chose.

The example above shows options associated with inventories. Different resources have different options available:

• Admin allows read, run, and edit privileges (applies to all resources)

• Use allows use of a resource in a job template (applies all resources except job templates)

• Update allows updating of project via the SCM Update (applies to projects and inventories)

• Ad Hoc allows use of Ad Hoc commands (applies to inventories)

• Execute allows launching of a job template (applies to job templates)

• Read allows view-only access (applies to all resources)

Tip

Use the Key button in the roles selection pane to display a description of each of the roles. For more information, refer to the Roles section of this guide.

2. Select the role to apply to the selected user or team.

Note

You can assign roles to multiple users and teams by navigating between the Users and Teams tabs without saving.

4. Review your role assignments for each user and team.

5. Click Save when done, and the Add Users/Teams window closes to display the updated roles assigned for each user and team.

   

To remove Permissions for a particular user, click the Disassociate (x) button next to its resource.

This launches a confirmation dialog, asking you to confirm the disassociation.

7.1.3. Organizations - Notifications¶

Clicking on Notifications (beside Permissions when viewing your organization), allows you to easily manage notifications for this organization.

To create a new notification, click the NOTIFICATIONS link from the upper-right side of the notifications list view.

Note

If no notifications have been set up, click the NOTIFICATIONS link from above or inside the gray box to add a new notification:

Supported notification sources include Slack, Email, SMS (via Twilio), HipChat, and more. Refer to Notifications for more information.

7.1.4. Organization - Summary¶

An at-a-glance view of various resources associated with an organization displays at the bottom of each Organization view, called the Organization Summary.

Click on each of the categories to view a list of resources associated with them. Some allow resources to be added, edited, or deleted, such as Users and Admins, while others require editing from another area of the user interface.

From the summary, you can edit the details of an organization () or delete it altogether ().

Note

If deleting items that are used by other work items, a message opens listing the items are affected by the deletion and prompts you to confirm the deletion. Some screens will contain items that are invalid or previously deleted, so they will fail to run. Below is an example of such a message: