Collaborators
Give cross-organisation access to people who work with you on specific content
A collaborator is a user who works with your organisation but isn't part of your internal team — a partner venue, a guest editor, a freelance designer, an agency working on a campaign. Collaborators get limited access to your site, scoped to the content they need.
Collaborators are different from users in two ways:
- A user is part of your team. They have a role on your site that decides what they can see and change.
- A collaborator belongs to another organisation. They have permission for specific content rather than the site as a whole.
When to use a collaborator
Use the collaborator model when:
- An external partner needs to manage records that relate to their organisation — a venue partner editing their venue record, a guest writer editing their author bio.
- A freelancer or agency needs limited access to a specific campaign or section.
- Another Basker tenant needs to edit content that's shared between your sites.
If the person is part of your team and works across your site, invite them as a regular user instead. See Inviting users.
How collaborator access works
Each collaborator is linked to:
- A user account — the person signing in.
- An organisation — who they work for.
- A set of permissions — which content they can access, and what they can do with it.
Permissions are typically scoped to content owned by or shared with the collaborator's organisation. A collaborator from a partner venue, for example, can edit records linked to that venue but not records belonging to other partners.
Setting up a collaborator
Setting up collaborator access usually involves Basker support — collaborators span organisational boundaries, and the setup is verified on both sides. Contact sales to add a new collaborator relationship.
Once set up, the collaborator appears in your Users list with the Collaborator role and the scope of their access shown alongside.