Workspace Hierarchy

 

The Workspace divides into "Accounts". Accounts can have several "Organizations". Each Organization has several "Projects". Each Project has its set of forms. In this model, forms are not dynamically shared between projects but can be between Organizations.

 

When designers require personal workspaces, they do this at the Project level.

 

All forms can be saved to version control and can be rolled back to a previously versioned revision, if required. If designers delete forms, they are actually not deleted from the Composer database and can be recovered.

 

Usually, if a form is open in Composer by one designer, other designers are locked out. Composer can be configured to not make use of this locking system, if desired.

 

Each Account can have a number of Libraries which are dynamically shared at the Organization and Project levels. Administrators are free to allocate whole Libraries as they see fit, or the components of Libraries.

 

Merits of this Structure

In the previous versions of Composer, the Composer environment was specified at the Project level and was reloaded whenever the Composer user moved from one project to another. In fact, the environment was reloaded even when users moved from form to form within the one project, so loading was slow.

 

Now, Composer caches Organizations (see Quick Start), and users take less time to move around the Workspace. By default, Composer caches 3 organizations and this is configurable.

 

Both Global Libraries and Access Control sit above the Account hierarchy. Global Libraries are shared dynamically across Accounts, allowing — if desired — patching to these Global elements without intervention by end users or administrators.

 

Access Control is now very strong, as well as being very fine-grained. Users can now be given access to several Accounts, and within those be given access to different functions.

 

Libraries are shared at the Account level, and the one Account can have several Libraries so that branding can be controlled across the Enterprise in both similarity and difference from department to department.