Overview
ObservV supports different access patterns depending on whether someone needs organization-wide access, property access, or project access.
Use this page to understand the difference between No Global Role users, Guests, and Externals.
No Global Role
A member with No Global Role has no organization-wide permissions. Inviting someone into No Global Role works the same way as inviting someone into any other Global role.
Use No Global Role when you want to:
- Onboard someone quickly and assign broader access later.
- Give someone only Property roles, across one or more properties, without giving them organization-wide permissions.
Guests
A Guest is a member who already has a Global role in another organization and is given a Property role in your organization.
Guests are not part of your organization.
A Guest:
- Can be assigned Property roles in your organization.
- Can hold Property roles across multiple organizations.
- Cannot be assigned a Global role in your organization, because a member can only hold one Global role per email address.
Externals
In Projects, members from another organization are referred to as Externals. Externals receive Project roles only.
External access rules.
A person cannot be added to a Property unless they already belong to another organization as a member with a Global role. A person can be added to a Project even if they are not part of any organization.
Quick decision guide
- Member of your organization with no organization-wide permissions: use No Global Role with Property roles.
- Member of another organization who needs property access in your organization: use Guest with a Property role.
- Person from another organization, or no organization, who needs project access: use External with a Project role.
