Workspaces and Applications

When you log into your Softr account, you are taken to your workspace, which contains all the workspace applications as well as links to some useful resources on the left sidebar.

By default, you’ll have at least one workspace where your first application resides. You can add more applications to your workspace, create new workspaces, or join other workspaces as a collaborator. So, let’s add a new workspace and see what the setup looks like.

You can add a new workspace from the menu in the bottom left corner of the dashboard.

In the pop-up that opens next, you should provide a workspace name and can also add a custom icon.

Next, you can invite your first collaborators or skip this step.

In the “Overview of workspace roles and permissions” section of this article you can find a detailed overview of each role’s permissions.

All your workspaces will be available in the bottom left-side menu, where you can also switch between them. The current workspace along with its Settings, Members, and Billing options, will be shown under Active Workspace.

Next, we are going to look into workspace settings, workspace plans and billing, roles and permissions, and more.

In Workspace settings, as a workspace Owner, you can modify the name of the workspace as well as customize its icon.

In the Collaborators tab, you can invite new workspace collaborators, configure the permissions of the existing ones, and more.

When you click on a collaborator entry in the list, a pop-up with the collaborator’s profile will open.

If you’re the workspace Owner, you can see what permissions the collaborator has and can make changes to them. In the screenshot above, we have a guest collaborator (we’ll discuss this role in a bit), which means that this person only has access to specific app(s) within the workspace. In such cases, you have the option of adding the guest collaborator as a workspace collaborator to grant access to the whole workspace.

Each workspace has its distinct subscription plan, and all the workspace collaborators can use the features that are available under that subscription plan.

In the Plans and billing section of the workspace, you can make changes to your subscription plan (e.g. upgrade it) or modify your billing info. You can learn more about this in our articles on billing and pricing.

Now, let’s discuss the third role we have on workspaces apart from the Owner and Collaborator. It’s called a Guest Collaborator and is basically an application-level collaborator that has access to specific application(s) within the workspace but not the whole workspace.

You can invite Guest Collaborators directly from the application by clicking on the corresponding button on the application as shown below.

The button will open a pop-up where you can enter the email of the guest and send an invite.

It’s also possible to add Guest Collaborators from inside the app as shown below.

We’ve briefly discussed some of the things different workspace roles can and can’t do, but here you can find a complete list of permissions for each role.

Owner can

Collaborator (workspace collaborator) can

Guest collaborator (application collaborator) can

This option is only available to workspace Owners, allowing them to move the application from one of the workspaces they own to another workspace where they are either an Owner or a Collaborator.

When moving an application from one workspace to another, the receiving workspace needs to satisfy certain conditions depending on the features that your application has:

If you need to make a copy of an existing application in its current state, you can do so by choosing Duplicate in the application menu.

After performing the action, a copy of the application will be created, and you’ll be taken right into the studio, where you can start editing. The copy will appear in the same workspace next to the original one.

Finally, you have the option of deleting any of the applications with the workspace if you’re the workspace Owner. You just need to click Delete in the application menu and confirm the action in the dialog box that appears afterwards.