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Team

On Columns, we support you and your team share the same workspace, if you are admin you can manage members as well. In addition to team management, there are a few team features to mention here as well.

Profile​

Either you are part of a team or you're an admin of a specific team, you can always find team resources in your profile. Hover over your avatar, click Profile, in your profile page, you will find "Teams" section:

  1. Here you can switch current profile to your personal or any team workspace.
  2. If you're admin, you will see all managed teams listed under "Manage team".

Team management​

In team management, you can maintain several metadata for your company, such as name, description, logo, domain, etc. In addition, you can configure a few useful integrations, such as

  1. SSO (SAML or OAUTH) - single sign on is common for enterprise do software integrations.
  2. Snowflake integration - support custom oauth integration with Snowflake. (contact us for other cloud DB integrations).
  3. Membership management - add or remove team members through user email.

Please contact our support to update the number of seats. Team Management

Resource visibility​

Resource visibility is flag value you can set in your team page. Currently it has two values:

  1. public: every team member can see data and visual stories created by other members in the team.
  2. private: each team member can only see their own resources.

This settings can only be turn on/off by team admin. Though a team can have multiple members, you can still choose this to isolated individual's resources.

CNAME and white label​

Columns supports CNAME and white label, to clarify what you can expect as a customer, here are some details:

  1. Only a team can have a sub-domain on Columns. An individual user can not have a sub-doamin.
  2. A sub-domain is unique, your team ID is the sub-domain prefix, you can copy your sub-domain URL from your team management page.
  3. When users visit Columns through the sub domain (for exmaple: https://awesome.columns.ai), the associated team brand will be used, currently, this mainly means your company LOGO instead of Columns' LOGO. Also Columns header and footer will be removed for all its content page (data, story, page, etc.).
  4. Columns landing page (homepage) will remain unchanged.
  5. Your own domain - please use Cloudflare proxy or similar tools to manage your own domain using CNAME to alias to this sub-domain.

for example: columns.mydomain.com -> (CNAME) -> awesome.columns.ai

CNAME and white label support currently are very limited as described above, as we develop it further, this will offer more and more choices to build your own brand.

We would love to hear your need, if you have any questions, please reach out at support@columns.ai!

Snowflake OAuth​

If you have snowflake integration in your team settings, you can easily use snowflake through OAuth, here are the simple steps:

  1. Connect new data -> Snowflake -> Connect
  2. In the credential window, choose “OAUTH”, if you already authorized, the credential info will be filled by Columns, just click “Connect”, you should stop here for this case and start using snowflake.
  3. For the first time, you will see “Sign in Snowflake” link above “OAuth Token”
  4. Click the link, it will navigate you to Snowflake log in page, you may use SSO there as well to finish your authentication
  5. Once it’s authenticated, you shall be redirected to Columns which will save your auth state in Columns and then you can go to #1 again and finish at #2.

Once you connected to your snowflake, you can start use SQL to define a new Columns data source.