Related Accounts

dataZoa subscriptions at the Commercial/Institutional Publishing level have the privilege of creating Related Accounts, so that multiple persons can handle organizational tasks separately, but with shared visibility and editing privileges.

Terminology

Key Concepts

• The Related Account Leader is the dataZoa account associated with the subscription itself.
• A Related Account is any dataZoa account created by the Related Account Leader.
• The Related Account Group is all dataZoa accounts associated with the subscription itself.

Creating Related Accounts

In the housekeeping toolbar, "pick Profile/Preferences under the 'gear' menu".

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This brings you to a multi-tab page with various account attributes:

• To create a Related Account, login as the Related Account Leader, use the Gear button and choose the Create Related Account entry.
• This brings up the usual account creation panel, but with extra settings that specify group membership.
• You can inspect Related Account Groups from the Stats panel of your account profile, by clicking the account info link.

Notes

• All Series and Display ownership principles remain applicable in Related Accounts.
• Series Sharing privileges are mediated by the Share Acceptance setting of the Preferences tab of your account profile, .
• Display ownership can be transferred among related accounts via the dataZoa API.