Teams in Productive represent groups of users organized to collaborate on specific budgets, dashboards, Docs, or task views.
In Settings > Teams, you can see the total number of teams you have created and which are active under your subscription plan. This helps you keep track of team organization and ensure efficient resource management.
In short, Teams allow you to:
Effectively share dashboards, task views, budgets or Docs.
View and manage different teams' responsibilities in Resourcing.
Analyze teams' availability, capacity, and financial data in Reports.
Creating and Managing Teams
Creating Teams
To create a team:
Navigate to Settings > Teams.
Select + Create team.
Enter a name for your team and save.
Adding Members to Teams
To add members to a team:
Click on the team you want to add members to.
Select + Add member.
Choose the users you want to add to the team from the list.
Note that one user can belong to multiple teams, and clients as well as contractors can be part of teams!
Tip: Since one person can be added to multiple teams, for a refined data display use the Teams fields and filters.
Managing Teams
Viewing Team Membership: To see the list of teams a person is added to, click on their profile in the person overview. Note that when you add a person to a team, all objects (budgets, dashboards, Docs, task views) that the team has access to are automatically shared with that person.
Editing Teams: Only Admins can manage teams, which includes adding or removing members and creating or deleting teams. This ensures security and proper management control.
Deleting Teams: To delete a team, select the bin next to the team's name. Note that this just deletes the group, not the users from the app.
In terms of access to budgets, task views, dashboards, or Docs, when you delete a team, it is removed from all places it was present, meaning that people in the team lose access to those objects, in line with their permissions.
Teams and Sharing Options
Sharing a Dashboard
A dashboard can be shared with an individual or a team.
After selecting the team, choose a permission level for that team.
Sharing a Budget
You can add a whole team to work on a budget
Sharing a Doc
You can share a Doc with teams.
Sharing a Task View
You can share your Task view with the whole team.
More on views sharing here.
Using Teams as Fields and Filters
Teams can also be used as a field in various overviews and as filters in different modules:
Contacts Overview: Teams can be used as a field in the Contacts module and via Settings > Users.
Resourcing: Team filters can be used to focus on specific groups.
Reports: Teams filters are applicable in Reports, helping you refine your data and focus on specific groups.
The People data source report can help you analyze individuals by teams, while in all other reports, teams can be added as a relationship field if needed for additional data or filtering methods.
