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Administration · Organisation

Set up your organisation

Everything you set up for the whole organisation is in one place, the administration: your colleagues' accounts and what they may do, the groups and team shares they work in, your name and colours, the sign-in rules and the activity log.

What you need

  • An account with the Administrator role. Only administrators see Admin in the left bar, and every step of this guide is theirs.
  • To let people sign in with your own identity provider: an OpenID Connect provider (Keycloak, Authentik or another) where you can register an application.

Open the administration

Click Admin at the bottom of the left bar. The administration opens on Users; the column next to it lists every section, grouped by subject.

The administration open on Users, with Admin marked in the left bar and the list of sections
SectionWhat you set there
Users, Groups, ThemeAccounts, groups and your brand: this guide.
Web addressesThe addresses your users type to reach PAFworks, such as your own domain name.
Web sitesFolders published as websites: see Create your website with PAFworks and Claude.
Allowed domains, MailboxesYour mail domains and addresses, shared mailboxes: see Use your own mail domain.
Mail and meetingsOutgoing mail, antispam and online meetings.
Shared folders, Calendars and contactsEvery team share, shared calendar and shared address book of the organisation: this guide.
PDF templatesThe layouts people pick when they export a Markdown document to PDF.
Electronic signatureThe certificates that seal signed documents: see Get a PDF signed.
Office editing, Diagram editingThe online editors of office documents and of diagrams.
General (Discussions)The settings of Discussions: see Chat, call and meet.
Language models, Assistant, API connectorsThe AI of your organisation: see Set up the assistant for your organisation.
ModulesWhen your PAFworks offers them, your own small applications: see Build your own module with Claude.
Security, SSO configurationTwo-factor authentication, lockouts, identity providers: this guide.
WorkstationsThe Linux computers that sign in with PAFworks accounts.

Add a user

  1. In Users, click Add a user.

  2. Fill in the New user window. The Username is what the person signs in with: lowercase letters, digits and . _ - + @ only, with no space. It cannot be changed later. Choose a first Password and a Role (see below).

    The New user window filled in for Laura Vogel, role User
  3. Click Create. The account appears in the list. PAFworks sends no invitation: give the person their username and password yourself. They can change the password on the Security page of their account.

An e-mail address on one of your mail domains also becomes the person's mail address in PAFworks as soon as the account is created. An address on any other domain is simply recorded on the account.

If your organisation signs in through its own identity provider, accounts can also be created at the first sign-in: see Sign in with your identity provider.

Choose the role and the storage quota

Click the pencil (Edit user) at the end of a row. Besides the name and the e-mail address, the window holds the role, the storage quota, a New password field for someone who forgot theirs, the Active account box, and Reset for a person who lost the phone of their two-factor authentication.

Editing Nicolas: role User (no download), storage quota 10 GB
RoleWhat the person can do
UserEverything in PAFworks except the administration.
User (no download)Works in the web interface like a user, but can never take a copy of a file out: no download, no desktop or mobile sync, no app passwords (so no mail app and no AI app), no share links, no mail attachments, sent or received. The share links the account made before stop working while it has this role.
AdministratorEverything, including the administration.

Storage quota (GB) sets the space the person is given; 0 means unlimited. The list shows what each account uses against it: their own files, with their previous versions and what is in their trash, and their mail with its attachments; files in team shares count against nobody. Only the files are held to the quota: once they reach it, new uploads are refused, but mail keeps arriving.

Storage used, at the top, is everything the organisation stores: the accounts' files, the team shares, the mail with its attachments. Storage usage on the right splits it, largest first: each account with its files and its mail, then the team shares, the shared mailboxes and the rest.

Pause, delete or restore an account

Next to the pencil, two buttons act on the whole account:

Confirmation: the account is disabled right away, then deleted for good after 30 days, and can be restored until then

Until then, a deleted account stays in the list with the date it goes for good. Click Restore user on its row to give it back as it was, active or paused, with everything it held.

The users list with a deleted account, its date of deletion for good and the Restore user button marked

Your own account can be neither paused nor deleted from here: another administrator has to do it.

Groups

A group gathers accounts so that you can give access to all of them in one move. Click Groups in the administration.

The Groups page with the Design group selected and its three members

Groups are used when you give access to a team share (next section). People can also pick a group when they start a group discussion or invite people to a date poll.

Team shares

A team share is a folder that belongs to the team, not to one person: all its members find the same files in it, each according to their rights. Only administrators create them.

  1. Create the share

    In Files, click the + next to Team share in the left column. Give the share a Name.

  2. Add people and groups

    In Members, type part of a name: people and groups are found in the same search. Pick each one in the list.

    The search of the New team share window showing a person and a group
  3. Set their rights, then create

    Everyone you add starts with Write; change it to Read or Admin where needed. You are listed first, as Admin. Click Create: the share appears under Team share in the Files of every member.

    The New team share window: Accounting, with two people and the Management group, each with a right
RightWhat the member can do
Read (Read only in the administration)See and open the files.
Write (Read & Write)Also add, change, move and delete files.
AdminAlso rename the share, change its members and delete it, with the gear (Share members) shown next to the share in Files.

A group stays linked: whoever joins the group later gets the share too, and whoever leaves it loses it. Someone who has a right of their own and another through a group gets the higher of the two.

Manage every team share

In the administration, Shared folders lists every team share of the organisation, including those you are not a member of. Click Manage to rename a share, add or remove people (Add a user…) and groups (Add a group…), and change their rights. You can also create a share here, then add its members.

Shared folders: the Client projects share open, with its member and its two groups

Delete and restore a team share

Click Delete on its row and confirm. The share disappears right away for all its members, then is deleted for good with everything filed in it 30 days later. Until then it stays in the list, where Restore brings it back as it was, members and groups included.

A deleted team share with its date of deletion for good and the Restore button marked

A share's own administrators can delete it from its gear in Files too; restoring it is always done here.

Shared calendars and address books

Calendars and contacts does for calendars and address books what Shared folders does for files. It lists every shared calendar and every shared address book of the organisation, whoever owns it. The task lists of Tasks are calendars too, so they are here as well.

Calendars and contacts: the Team calendar open with its three members, and the Suppliers address book

Your brand: name, logo and colours

In the administration, click Theme. The preview at the top changes as you type.

The theme editor: preview in blue, name Acme, main and navigation colours, logo chosen
FieldWhat it changes
NamePage titles, the sign-in page, the client pages and the messages sent. Left empty: PAFworks.
Main colorThe primary buttons, the links and the selections, with readable shades derived from it.
Navigation colorThe navigation column, and the dark side of the client pages. Choose a dark colour: the labels on it are white, and a colour too light for them is refused.
LogoPNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP or SVG, up to 1 MB, square if possible. It also heads the home, sign-in and client pages.
White logoOptional, for the coloured areas. Without it, the logo is shown there on a white tile.
Banner of the client pagesOptional: a wide image above the sign-in form of the client pages, up to 3 MB.

Click Save: the page reloads in your colours. Restore the default theme goes back to the PAFworks name, logo and colours.

Dress a client in their own colours. An organisation in your contacts can have a theme of its own, set in the Client space section of its card in Contacts: its people then see it on their client pages instead of yours.

Sign-in security

In the administration, click Security. The Sign-in policy panel holds two rules; click Save after changing them.

The Sign-in policy panel with its advanced options open: 5 failures per account, 20 per address, 900 seconds

Sync clients, mail apps and AI apps sign in with app passwords, which each person creates in their preferences: they keep working when you require two-factor authentication. Follow the instance drops your values and goes back to the defaults of your PAFworks.

Lockouts always lift by themselves once the time has passed: nobody can keep a colleague out by typing wrong passwords under their name. A successful sign-in clears the count of the account.

Sign in with your identity provider

If your organisation already has an OpenID Connect identity provider — Keycloak, Authentik or another — people can sign in to PAFworks through it, with no second password.

  1. In the administration, click SSO configuration, then New provider.

  2. At your provider, register PAFworks as an OpenID Connect client with the Redirect URI and the Post-logout redirect URI shown at the top of the page. Then fill in the form: a Provider ID (letters, digits, hyphens and underscores: it is part of the redirect URI), the Name shown on the sign-in button, the Server URL of the provider, and the Client ID and Secret key it gave you.

    The New identity provider form filled in for Acme SSO, with its redirect URIs
  3. Tick Leave two-factor authentication to the provider only if your provider already enforces it: people signing in through it are then not asked for a code by PAFworks. Click Create.

The sign-in page now shows a Sign in with Acme SSO button (see the picture in Your brand), and usernames and passwords keep working alongside. PAFworks recognises an existing account by the e-mail address the provider has verified, or by the username; someone the provider knows who has no account yet normally gets one at their first sign-in.

PAFworks as the identity provider of your other applications

The other way round: your wiki, dashboard or ticket tracker can sign people in with their PAFworks account.

  1. In Security, under Identity provider, tick Enabled and click Save. Give the application the addresses listed below the box, starting with the Discovery document.

  2. Under Connected applications, type the application's name, choose Server-side application or Browser or mobile application, type its redirect address (one per line, matched exactly) and click Register.

  3. Copy the client identifier and the secret into the application. The secret is shown only once; Renew the secret makes a new one, and Remove disconnects the application.

    Identity provider enabled with its addresses, and the new Company wiki application with its credentials

The first time someone signs in to the application, PAFworks asks them to Allow it. They can withdraw it later in their preferences, under Devices and sync › Applications you signed in to.

Register only applications you administer or trust. Each of them can ask for the identity of anyone who signs in to it. Unticking Enabled stops all of them at once.

The activity log

Open https://cloud.example.com/activity/. Everyone sees their own activity there; as an administrator, click All to see the whole organisation's.

All activity: files added and updated, sign-ins and shares, by person and time

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