Your user role determines your experience in Harmoni. Harmoni allows three distinct levels of access to your site and projects: Creator, Explorer, and Viewer.
People that hold the Creator Role The highest level of access, permission, and control. Learn more about User Roles. within Harmoni, have the permission to create Projects and then edit and share. The user that creates a project is the Project Owner. The project owner has the ultimate right to publish a project to a broader group.
Sharing project ownership can be beneficial when dealing with large or varied data sources. It also can leverage the knowledge of different people with different subject matter expertise.
To facilitate collaboration, the Project Owner can share or transfer the project owner status with another Creator.
To ensure there is no conflict or duplication (e.g., people trying to change the same thing simultaneously), Harmoni applies a "One owner at a time" policy. Only one owner can edit the project at any given time.
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1. How to share Project ownership
You first need to enable the edit mode in your project and then select publish/share. Selecting the publish/share button opens the publish and sharing pane.
- People and groups with whom you can share and collaborate appear on the left.
- Only users registered for the site appear in the list of available users to publish. The list displayed is limited to the project owner's primary company users. Users appear in groups.
- Those with already assigned permissions appear on the right.
- Users’ names are colored in orange when they are already part of a permission group.
- You can search for a specific user and drag it into the relevant permission group.
Drag and drop the user name to the Owner Access group to share ownership. The person you are sharing with must also be a creator.
2. Shared ownership
One owner at a time
To ensure there is no conflict or duplication (e.g., people trying to change the same thing simultaneously), Harmoni applies a "One owner at a time" policy. Only one owner can edit the project at any given time.
There can only be one project owner active at any given time.
Constructions
Any construction created by the Owner is shared when they share the project with someone else. At the same time, the published version of a project is updated to include all of the new owner's items.
Sharing ownership of the project does not share ownership of any other Harmoni entities (i.e., Stories, Dashboards, etc.)