Folder management

If you need to restrict the context in which your users are assigned access to a service, you must set up folders. Folders in CONNECT are used to partition data. Folders represent your assets, but they can refer to any partition of data. They work analogously to folders in a traditional tree explorer.

Consider this example: If your organization has projects and users located in different regions in the world, you can create folders and enable the required services on these folders. Specifically, you may choose to have separate environments for your CIVIL projects in APAC and EMEA. To achieve this, you can create a parent folder named CIVIL and two child folders named APAC and EMEA. This approach enables separate environments to be provisioned in a single CONNECT account.

Folders enable the Account Administrator to provide access to specific users in the environment closest to them. This ensures users of the services are provided with the best performance and user experience, while allowing users with less demanding need (for example, reporting), to easily move between all folders and environments. As an Account Administrator, you can decide what services need to be enabled for a particular folder of data. Besides that, you can also control how different sets of users can access different folders. Folders are entirely under your control and it is up to you to choose a specific folder layout.

, as part of the service definition, decides whether a service is available at the account level or can be enabled within a folder. If you do not set up folders, access to services can only be assigned at the account level.

Note: Some services can only be assigned at the folder level.

An account can have up to 100 folders and each folder can have up to ten child folders underneath it, However the number of levels is currently restricted to just one.