What's the difference between a colleague and a collaborator?

A workspace colleague is different from a team collaborator. A workspace colleague is someone who can manage the teams in a workspace. A team collaborator is someone who has been given permission to do something on a team. It’s possible to be both a workspace colleague and a team collaborator.

What is a workspace colleague?

Workspace colleagues are typically attorneys, paralegals, and secretaries. They manage the teams in their workspace. They can add and remove team collaborators, manage team access to document set templates, and edit a team’s groups. 

A workspace colleague can also manage other colleagues. In the Internal Directory, workspace colleagues can add or remove colleagues from their workspace. They can also edit the roles of their existing colleagues, manage the teams their colleagues are on, and resend or remove invitations to new colleagues.

What is a team collaborator?

A team collaborator is someone who has been given permission to do something on a team. In a law firm’s workspace, team collaborators typically include both the people who work for the client, such as startup founders and their employees who assist with legal paperwork, as well as attorneys and paralegals at the law firm.

Team collaborators can have any combination of Read, Write, or Admin permissions. Depending on their permission settings, team collaborators can view and create new document sets, and also manage other team collaborators. 

Collaborators at a law firm with Admin permissions can add new collaborators to a team, remove collaborators from a team, and edit collaborator permissions through the workspace manager. 

Clients with Admin permissions can also manage collaborators on a team from their team settings page.