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Creating and Joining Teams

Teams in Reveal enables easy collaboration within and out of your organization. Now you can access and join freely all your organization’s teams and also make your own team available for others in the organization to join and work with you.

Creating a Team from Scratch

  1. Click My Stuff at the top left corner and select the Join or Create a Team button in the popover menu.

    join or create a team button in the popover menu
    Note
    NOTE

    When signing in for the first time, you might already have a team. This is your Organization team including other members of your organization, who have logged in Reveal with their Office365 account at least once.

  2. Click/Tap the + Create Team blue button. The following screen opens:

    team properties dialog

    Here you will need to:

    • assign a name to your team;

    • choose team’s color;

    • decide on team’s privacy;

    • choose if your team will belong to the main Organization.

      • Organization team (this option will appear with the name of your organization, e.g. Infragistics, Inc) - if you associate your team with the main Organization team, your team will appear in the list of teams that every member of the main Organization can join (unless you make your team private).

      • Personal organization - your new team does not belong to the main Organization and cannot be joined by other users without invitation.

        Note
        NOTE

        Carefully choose the Organization property for your team as you cannot change it later.

  3. Click/Tap Create to continue and start inviting members to your team by adding their emails to the list. They will receive an invitation by email.

    invite members dialog

    Member is the default role for every user you invite, unless you assign them a different role.

    Note
    NOTE

    When adding members, whose emails are not auto-completed by Reveal, type the whole email and press Enter to add it to the list of users you want to invite.

  4. After clicking/tapping Send Invites button your new team is created. You will find it in the teams' list under My Stuff in the popover menu shown below:

new team in the teams tab

Joining an Existing Team

If your account has been automatically added to an Organization team, you can discover and join other teams that belong to your organization. To join an existing team, follow the steps below.

  1. Click/Tap the popover menu in the top left corner (next to the Reveal icon)

  2. Click/tap the Join or Create a Team blue button.

  3. The following screen shows up:

    join or create a team dialog

    Here you will find all the public teams that belong to your organization.

  4. After clicking/tapping the Join button, you will automatically be added as a new member with Member’s permissions to the team you have chosen. The team will appear in your teams' list.

Organizing your Teams' List

There is no limit to the teams you can create or join. To easily navigate through a large list of teams and find the one you need, you can filter your teams by:

  • the Organization they belong to;

  • favorites;

  • custom groups you have created.

Filtering by Organization

  1. Click/Tap the popover menu in the top left corner (next to the Reveal icon).

  2. Click/Tap All Organizations dropdown on top of your teams' list.

    organization filter in the teams list
  3. Choose to see: all teams, only these that belong to the main Organization or only teams that do not belong to the Organization (Personal Organization option).

Note
All Organizations menu not available

The All Organizations dropdown menu will not appear unless you have both teams belonging to the main Organization, and Personal Organization teams.

Adding to Favorites

  1. Click/Tap the overflow menu of any team in your teams' list.

  2. Select Favorite.

    adding a team to favorites
  3. This team will appear in the Favorites list at the top of your teams.

Filtering by Groups

You can organize your teams by custom groups of your choice. To create a new group:

  1. Go to the overflow menu of a team in your list.

  2. Click/Tap Select Group.

  3. The Group Team dialog opens. Click/Tap + Add Group to create a new group.

    add group to group team dialog
  4. Tick the circle of the group you want to add the team to. Select Apply.

Your teams' list now shows your teams categorized by Ungrouped Teams and teams in custom groups:

teams' list separated by custom groups and ungrouped teams