Multitenancy Support
Creating Applications With Multitenancy
Multitenancy allows your application to serve multiple organizations or user groups (tenants) from a single deployment while keeping each tenant's data isolated. Here's how to implement multitenancy in your Flatlogic application with the new platform features.
Step 1: Define Your Application Requirements
Start by considering your multitenancy needs:
- Describe your application's functionality, data models, and user roles
- Consider how data should be isolated between different organizations
- Determine what access levels different tenant users should have
- Decide whether you need global administrators who can access data across tenants
Step 2: Select a Template
- Free Community Template: Provides basic multitenancy support
- Paid Advanced Template: Offers more sophisticated multitenancy features with enhanced security and customization options
Step 3: Work with the AI Engineer
Engage with the AI Engineer to design your application. Clearly communicate your multitenancy requirements in your application description. For example: "I need a CRM system that allows multiple companies to manage their own customers separately, with data isolation between companies". The AI Engineer will suggest appropriate data structures and relationships that support multitenancy
Note: Each AI interaction consumes a fraction of a credit from your account.
Step 4: Review and Adjust the Schema
After the AI Engineer generates your initial schema, verify that multitenancy has been incorporated based on your requirements. If multitenancy hasn't been included, you can manually enable it.
Manually Enabling Multitenancy
If you need to add multitenancy to your schema:
- Click the three dots at the top of the schema interface
- Select the multitenancy option
- Note that you must also select roles and permissions as prerequisites for enabling multitenancy
When multitenancy is enabled, the organizations entity will be automatically added to your schema. An organization field will be added to other entities, so that data is isolated between tenants. These multitenancy-related fields cannot be edited or deleted.
Step 5: Deploy Your Application
Click Create with AI Engineer to deploy your application to the Development Environment. Your application will be deployed with multitenancy support. You can continue to refine your application in the Development Environment.
Understanding User Roles in Multitenancy
Super Admin Role
In a multi-tenant application, the Super Admin has overarching control over all tenants:
- Can manage multiple organizations within a single application instance
- Has visibility and access across all tenant data
- Can configure tenant-specific settings and monitor usage
- Can implement updates globally or per tenant
Organization Admin Role
Each organization (tenant) has an Admin with full rights within that specific organization:
- Cannot access data from other organizations
- Manages users and settings within their organization
- Has full control over their organization's data
Regular Users
Regular users belong to a specific organization and can only access data within their organization based on their assigned role.
Registration of New Users
When registering new users:
- The registration form will include an organization selection field
- Select the organization to which the user will belong
- The user will only have access to data within their assigned organization
In the left menu of the admin dashboard, under the application name, you can see the organization to which the currently logged-in user belongs.
By following these steps, you can successfully incorporate multitenancy into your application using Flatlogic, ensuring data isolation and tailored access for different organizations within your application.
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