Key Terms

A quick reference for the main words you'll see around the dashboard, and how they fit together. If you just want step-by-step instructions instead, check out the Profile and Organizations guides.

Multiverse IAM

Multiverse IAM is the account system you sign in through. It's the one account you use across every Multiverse Computing product (like Foundry), so you never have to create a separate login for each one.

Organization

An organization is your team's shared space. You can be part of more than one organization, and each one keeps its own people, projects, groups, roles, and invitations completely separate from the others.

Member

A member is anyone who belongs to an organization. Being a member means you show up in that organization's Members list and can be added to its groups. It doesn't automatically give you access to any particular project.

Roles

You'll come across "role" in two different places, and they mean different things depending on where you see them:

	Organization role	Project role
Applies to	The whole organization	One specific project
Given to	A person, directly	A group (people get it by being in that group)
Controls	What you can do in the organization overall: inviting people, changing settings, and so on	What you can do on that one project
Options	Owner, Admin, Viewer, Billing, Developer, or Member	Owner, Admin, Developer, Auditor, or Viewer
Where to see	The Roles tab in your organization	Set when a group is created, then linked to a project

Organization roles decide who can invite or remove people, change someone's role, edit settings, and create or delete groups and projects.

Having a high organization role, like Owner or Admin, doesn't automatically give you access to every project. The two are separate — you'd still need to be added to a group connected to a project to work on it.

Project

A project is a shared space within your organization where a team works together. On its own, a project doesn't give anyone access — that always comes through a group.

Group

A group is a set of people. Each group is given exactly one project role when it's created: Owner, Admin, Developer, Auditor, or Viewer. If you happen to be in more than one group connected to the same project, the higher role wins.

Connecting a group to a project

To give a group access to a project, it needs to be connected to it. This connection is the only way a project becomes reachable by anyone.

You never get project access directly. You always get it by being part of a group that's connected to that project. If you're removed from the group, or the group is disconnected from the project, your access goes away too.

Your role on a project

Your role on any given project is worked out automatically from the groups you're in that are connected to it. If more than one applies, the higher one wins. This is also what other Multiverse Computing products, like Foundry, use to know what you're allowed to do on that project.

Invitation

An invitation is how someone new joins an organization (or a project). Invitations can be sent by email or shared as a link, and they move through a lifecycle: pending → accepted, expired, or cancelled.

Session

A session is one device or browser where you're signed in. You can be signed in on more than one at a time, and you can sign out of any of them from Profile → Sessions.

Access Token

An access token is a personal key you can use to connect other tools or scripts to your account. It's shown to you only once, right when you create it, so make sure to save it somewhere safe. Create and manage them under Profile → Access Tokens.

You may see this same token called a personal access token (PAT) or an API key accross documentation, these are all names for one credential.

Activity

An activity entry is a record of one thing that happened: signing in, changing a security setting, someone joining or leaving, and so on. You can see your own activity under Profile → Activity, and everything that happened in an organization under Organizations → Activity.