Overview

Teams give admins the ability to structure visibility of account data and closely collaborate with their team members via SuccessBLOCs. Admins can create teams oriented around business divisions, team objectives, geographic regions or both; ultimately increasing the relevance of information available to each user and restricting access to information that should not be shared outside of certain team members.

Before you get started, you may want to review Best Practices for Setting Up Teams.

This article contains the following sections:

• Creating a New Team
• Configure account set using team criteria
• Adding team members to a Team
• Removing team members from a Team
• How to switch between Teams
• Understanding administrative roles and capabilities 
• Adding or removing Zoe Slack Bot to a team
• FAQs

Creating a New Team

Global Admins can create a Team following these steps:

1. Under Global Settings-> User Management -> Teams.
2. Give your team a name, then add a team icon, type(s), description, and goal.
3. Choose a Team Type.
4. Configure Account Set using Segment criteria. 
5. Add members to the team.
6. Define the team’s extended search settings.
7. Define the team’s “My Portfolio” settings.
8. Click “Save Team” and you’re done.

Note: "Extended search" settings, "MyPortfolio" settings, and "Save Team" can all be found in the Advanced Options screen. 

Configure Account Set Using Segment Criteria

Choose the account base of the Team by configuring the right account criteria. Accounts will be dynamically associated with the Team per the account criteria.



Note, "Account assigned to the logged-in user"  is a special criterion for configuring Teams. Selecting this criterion will limit the account set of the Team to be only the accounts in which I own
(meaning, I am part of these account assignments).
For example, Joe owns 300 accounts and Emmie owns 100 accounts. The Totango admin configured Team "Team US" to use the" Account assigned to the logged-in user" criterion, when Joe logs into "Team US" Team he will be able to see only his 300 accounts, and when Emmie logs into "Team US" Team she will be able to see only her 100 accounts.

If you have the employee hierarchy turned on in Totango Users Settings you can also query accounts using query terms such as "Direct Reports of" or "All Reports Of" or "Direct Reports who are not managers" using Logged-In User. This lets a Manger logging into a team to view their own as well as all accounts of their reporting team.

Adding Team Members to a Team

Both Global Admins and Team Admins are able to add members to Teams; however, Team Admins are only able to add members to their own Team, while Global Admins can add members to any Team.

There are three methods for adding members to Teams:

1. Members can be added manually one at a time in the Team settings UI.
2. Members can be added dynamically by segment criteria based on the Totango user information or leveraging your Employee Hierarchy settings.
   • Note: Once criteria were added, team members cannot be removed manually and must be removed by changing or deleting the team members criteria.

Removing Members from a Team

Global Admins and Team Admins can remove a user from a Team using one of the following methods (Note: Team Admins are only able to remove members from their own team):

1. Remove individual members manually in Team's settings.
2. If you are using the Employee Hierarchy feature, you can remove members dynamically by updating their manager. 

Switching Between Teams

To switch between Teams, click on the team name in the top-right corner of the app and choose the team you’d like to switch to from the dropdown menu.

Note: users will only see the teams that they are members of, regardless of role.

Understanding Administrative Roles and Capabilities

There are two out-of-the-box roles that can maintain Team configurations:

Global Admin: Global Admin’s primary role and function are to determine how Totango is configured and consumed. His/her role and capability is equivalent to today’s Totango Admin role with the addition to managing the new team structure. The Global Admin is responsible for creating and configuring all Teams. Global Admin can define what account and data each Team can access and manage. Global Setting is only available for Global Admins.

Team Admin: The primary function of this role is to manage his/her own team’s overview (team name, avatar, and goal) and manage team members (add/remove team members and add/remove team admins). Team Setting is available only for Global Admins and Team Admins. Team Setting shows only the settings for the selected team.

In addition to these two roles, you add other Team Roles that can then be used to grant specific permissions to the application. Let's say you only want certain team members to be able to access Campaigns. You might create a specific team role for them and then you can designate that permission only to that role.

Adding or Removing Zoe Slack Bot to a Team

The option to add the Zoe Slackbot to a Team exists within the Team Members section of the Team's settings.

To remove Zoe from a Team, simply search for it in the list of team members and click the x icon.

Note: Adding Zoe to a Team will allow all Zoe users access to accounts defined in that particular Teams' account set.

Learn more about how to leverage Team Types or how to assign Teams automatically based on Employee Hierarchy!

FAQ

Q: What is extended search scope and what is it used for?

A:  Extended Search scope in Teams is a feature that allows admins to extend the scope of accounts beyond the core account set. For e.g. North America Team can have extended scope access to EMEA accounts so they can follow the activity and stay up to date on the EMEA accounts.

Q: What is Team team type?

A:  Success Team Type is a field on Team that groups teams of a similar type. For e.g. applying "North America" team type to all teams that focus on North American accounts.

Q: What is a default team role?

A:  Totango users can be associated with a Team by uploading Totango users from Customer Data Hub.  Once a Totagno user is associated with Team, he will be assigned the default team role defined for every Team. A Totango admin or a Team admin can change it manually in the Team settings page.