Workspaces & Orgs: An Overview
Learn about roles and permissions for members of an organization.
Latch Workspaces are collaborative environments where teams can manage projects, share data, and utilize Latch’s bioinformatics tools.
Latch Organizations provide a higher-level management structure for multiple workspaces.
Workspaces
Manage settings within a workspace
Organizations
Manage multiple workspaces under a single organization on Latch
What are Workspaces?
In Workspaces you can…
- Manage your team members and their access to the workspace as well as workspace-specific billing, including credit balance and usage across Latch products.
- Share data with your team and organize data within the workspace.
- Run and manage workflows for efficient bioinformatics analyses within the workspace.
- Utilize Latch Pods for compute and containerized tools, and access the Registry for metadata labeling.
Use a Workspace when:
- You’re working on a single project or with one team.
- You need to manage and allocate resources for a specific initiative.
- You require fine-grained control over access permissions for different team members within a project.
What are Organizations?
In Organizations you can…
- Create and oversee multiple workspaces under a unified organization.
- Grant organization members with owner-level permissions across all managed workspaces.
- View comprehensive billing that aggregates usage across all managed workspaces.
- Transfer credits between workspaces to manage resources across projects.
Use an Organization when:
- You’re overseeing multiple projects, customers, or teams, each requiring its own workspace.
- You need a high-level view of resource usage and billing across workspaces.
- You want to easily transfer credits between workspaces.
Permissions
Within a Latch Organization, you can be an Admin or a Member. Within a Latch Workspace, you can be an Admin, Member, or Viewer.
| Workspace | Organization |
|---|---|
| Admin: performs administrative tasks within the workspace. Configures billing, adds/ removes members, etc. | Admin: can perform tasks like adding new workspaces, inviting members, etc. |
| Member: can use the workspace resources, such as creating pods, running workflows, using Registry, etc. | Member: can view members, billing, etc. You can set a member to be a Viewer or Admin in all workspaces by default. |
| Viewer: can only view the workspace resources but cannot perform any actions. |
NOTE: All members of an Organization automatically have Owner permissions for all its child workspaces. If you want to limit someone’s permissions, add them only to the specific workspaces where you want them to have access.