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An Organization is the top-level container in Ionworks. It represents your team’s workspace where all your projects, data, and members are managed.

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Organization Structure

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Key Concepts

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Central Workspace

Your organization is the central hub for all your work. Every Project and Model belongs to your organization, and every Cell Specification and Parameterized Model belongs to a project inside it.

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Shared Resources

  • Models are available to all team members across every project.
  • Cell Specifications and Parameterized Models are scoped to a single project. To reuse a cell design in another project, create a new Cell Specification in that project.

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Team Collaboration

  • Invite team members to your organization
  • Manage access through roles (Admin, Member, Viewer)
  • All projects are visible to organization members

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Managing Members

Organization admins can invite new members, change roles, deactivate access, or remove members entirely from the organization’s Members settings.

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Deactivating a Member

Deactivating a member blocks their access to the organization while keeping their membership record and role intact. This is the recommended way to temporarily revoke access — for example when someone changes teams, goes on leave, or needs their access paused during an audit — without losing their assignments or history.
  • Deactivated members cannot sign in to the organization. If it is their active organization, they see an Access deactivated screen and can switch to another organization they belong to, or contact support.
  • Their role and membership are preserved, so reactivating restores their previous access with no reconfiguration.
  • Deactivated members appear in the members list with a Deactivated badge.
To deactivate a member:
  1. Open Organization settings → Members.
  2. Find the member in the list and click Deactivate.
  3. Confirm in the dialog. The member’s role is preserved and they can be reactivated at any time.
To reactivate a member, click Activate next to their name in the members list.
Admins cannot deactivate their own membership, and the organization’s last active admin cannot be deactivated. Use Remove instead if you want to end a member’s association with the organization entirely — this deletes the membership row and any role assignment.

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