Teams

Overview

Teams let you share servers with other people so you can manage them together in FlashPanel. You create a team, invite members by email, and then share servers with the team. Team members see and manage those servers directly from their own accounts.

Open the Teams page from the Teams item in the left menu. The page has the following sections:

• Team List: every team you own or belong to.
• Shared Servers: the servers shared with the selected team.
• Team Name: rename the team.
• Add Team Member and Pending Team Invitations: invite members and track invitations (visible to the team owner only).
• Team Members: the list of members.
• Delete Team: delete the team (visible to the team owner only).

Every account always has a personal team. The personal team cannot be deleted.

Owner and member permissions

• The team owner (the person who created the team) can rename the team, invite and remove members, cancel invitations, share servers with the team from the Teams page, and delete the team.
• Members can manage the servers shared with the team, share their own servers with the team (from the server page), and leave the team.

Members manage shared servers almost like the owner, but only the server owner can delete the server, stop sharing it, or transfer it. Per-member permission settings are not available yet.

Create a team

1. In the Team List section, click Create New Team.
2. Enter the Team Name. You will be the Team Owner of this team.
3. Click Create.

Select a team to manage

The Team List section shows each team as a card with its member count and owner. Click a team's card to view and manage that team; the sections below update for the selected team.

Check Hide empty team to hide teams that have no members yet.

Invite members

1. Select the team you want to invite members to.
2. In the Add Team Member section, enter the email address of the person you want to invite.
3. Click Add.

FlashPanel sends an invitation email to that address. The invitation appears in the Pending Team Invitations section until the invitee accepts it. To withdraw an invitation, click Cancel on its row.

• You cannot invite someone who is already a team member or who already has a pending invitation.
• Invitations do not expire; an invitation stays valid until it is accepted or cancelled.

Accept an invitation

1. Open the team invitation email.
2. If you do not have a FlashPanel account yet, click Create Account and register with the exact email address that was invited.
3. Log in to FlashPanel with the account that uses the invited email, then click Accept Invitation in the email.
4. The screen shows Confirming... and then returns to the Teams page when done.

After you join, the servers shared with the team appear in your server list.

WARNING

You can only accept an invitation while logged in with the invited email address. If you are logged in with another account, log out and log in again with the correct account.

Share servers with a team

From the Teams page

This method is for the team owner:

1. Select the team, then click Share Servers in the Shared Servers section.
2. Check the servers you want to share. The list only contains servers you own. When you have many servers, select them in the Servers field (which offers Select All).
3. Click Share Servers.

Servers that are already shared are pre-checked in the dialog. Unchecking a server and clicking Share Servers also stops sharing that server.

From the server page

A server owner (even one who is only a member of the team) can share their own server with any team they belong to:

1. Open the server's detail page.
2. In the Utilities group, click Share Server.
3. Check the teams you want to share with (uncheck a team to stop sharing with it).
4. Click Share.

Stop sharing

In the Shared Servers section, click the x icon on the server's chip and confirm Stop sharing. This icon is only shown to the server owner. Click the server name to open its detail page.

Plan limits

Sharing servers with a team requires a plan that supports Teams. The maximum number of servers in each team equals the number of servers included in that plan.

Grant root access

After you use Grant root access, the server is no longer shared with any team. Share it again if needed.

Rename a team

1. Select the team you want to rename.
2. In the Team Name section, enter the new name.
3. Click Save.

Only the team owner can rename the team; members can only view the name.

Manage members

The Team Members section lists the members (not including the team owner) with their avatars and email addresses. Your own row is marked (You).

Remove a member

1. Click Remove on the member's row.
2. Confirm in the Remove Team Member dialog.

A removed member no longer sees the servers shared with the team, except servers they own themselves.

Leave a team

1. Select the team you want to leave.
2. In the Team Members section, click Leave Team on your row.
3. Confirm the action.

After leaving, you can no longer manage the servers shared with that team. The team owner cannot leave a team they created; delete the team instead if it is no longer needed.

Delete a team

1. Select the team you want to delete.
2. In the Delete Team section, click Delete Team.
3. Confirm the action.

Deleting a team removes all members from the team and stops sharing its servers. The servers themselves are not deleted and stay with their owners.

Notes & warnings

• Note: Transferring team ownership is not available yet. To transfer ownership of a server to someone else, use Server Transfer.
• Note: The personal team cannot be deleted.
• Note: A team with no members and no shared servers may be deleted automatically by the system.
• Warning: Team members can act on shared servers (install, configure, manage sites, and so on). Only share servers with people you trust.