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Spaces Management

A Space within the application serves as a unit for partitioning configuration, management, security, and content. Each application tenant includes a Root Space, and Space owners have the ability to create multiple Sub-Spaces (also known as child spaces) within the root or any other Space. This hierarchical structure establishes Parent and Child relationships among Spaces. Space owners can view and use configurations managed by their parent Spaces but cannot edit or delete them.

Furthermore, Space owners have the ability to create, edit, or delete configurations within their own Space. Sub-spaces can view and use these configurations but cannot edit or delete them. However, Parent spaces cannot view configurations managed by their child spaces. Additionally, only sub-spaces have access to view or edit their own space configurations. All assets and asset containers are unique to each Space, making Spaces function like high-level containers in this regard.

Users with appropriate permissions can log in directly to sub-spaces by entering its URL. Alternatively, they can navigate to a sub-space by browsing through the space hierarchy.

Spaces are useful in a number of different scenarios such as:

  • Delegation of management to geographical or departmental sub-divisions
  • Project management for short lived temporary projects
  • DevOp groups support to manage configuration, users, permission schema and assets for operational activities

Creating Spaces

To create a new Space:

  1. Log in with an Administrator or Space Manager account.
  2. Navigate to Management > Spaces and click the Add button.
  3. Enter a Name that is alphanumeric and does not contain any space characters. Select a Language for this Space from the drop down menu.
  4. Click the Save button to complete this operation.

After the space have been created, you may access it using the Navigate option located in the Actions menu or you can manually navigate it through the address bar URL in your browser.

A space URL is constructed like this: https://host:port/ztna/tenantName/spaceName

Managing Spaces

To manage Spaces:

  1. Log in with an Administrator or Space Manager account.
  2. Navigate to Management > Spaces, locate the Space to be managed and use the available options in the Actions column to perform an action.
    1. Show Details: use the expansion down arrow to show details of the selected Space.
    2. Edit: use the edit option to make changes to the selected Space.
    3. Navigate: use the navigate option to open this Space in your browser tab.
    4. Delete: use the delete option to delete this Space. This operation cannot be undone.
  3. Click the Save button to complete an Edit operation.

Note

If the Name of an existing Space is updated, the URL to this Space will also be updated to reflect this name change. For example, if the Name is changed from "Infrastructure" to "Devices" then the Space URL will no longer be accessible from /Infrastructure and will only be accessible from /Devices. This could lead to user confusion and broken bookmarks, so we recommend choosing an appropriate Name during the creation process to avoid having to update it at a later time.