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Guides for setting up and running a Selvian workspace. Type a word to narrow the list.

Getting started

How a workspace is opened

Plans are prepared on request. Once you have agreed a plan with us, we open your workspace and send an invitation to the first owner account.

The owner can then create spaces, invite people and assign roles.

Signing in for the first time

Open the invitation email, choose a password and sign in. If the invitation has expired, ask the workspace owner, or us, to send a new one.

A suggested first hour

Create one space for the team that asks the most questions.

Write the three procedures you are asked about most often.

Give each one an owner and a review-by date, then invite that team.

Spaces

Creating a space

Workspace owners create spaces from the sidebar. Give the space a clear name, such as a team (Kitchen) or a site (Downtown store).

Choose which roles can read and which can edit before inviting anyone.

Arranging pages in a space

Pages sit in a tree. Drag a page under another to make it a sub-page; links to it keep working wherever it moves.

Writing pages

Writing a procedure people can follow

Start with the situation in the title: “Closing the shop on Sundays” is easier to find than “Sunday procedure”.

Use numbered steps, one action per step, and put warnings before the step they apply to.

Linking to another page

Select the words that should become a link and choose the page to link to. The page you link to will list your page among the pages that link to it.

Using a template

Choose “New page from template” and pick a layout. Any page can be saved as a template by an editor of its space.

Owners and review dates

Setting an owner and a review-by date

Every page has an owner field and a review-by date in its page details. Pick a date that suits how often the procedure changes: monthly for menus, yearly for building access.

When a page is marked for review

Once the review-by date has passed, readers see that the page is due for review, and its owner is reminded.

The owner checks the page, edits it if needed, and marks it as reviewed with a new date.

Onboarding paths

Building a path for a new starter

Create a path, add the pages in reading order, and assign it to the new starter when you invite them.

You can see which pages they have opened; there is no score or test.

Roles and access

How roles work

Each person has a role. For every space, the owner decides whether that role can read, edit or manage access.

People only see the spaces their role can read.

Removing someone’s access

When someone leaves, a workspace owner removes them from the workspace. Their past edits stay in each page’s version history.

Version history

Comparing and restoring versions

Open a page’s history to see every saved version. Select two versions to compare them side by side.

Restoring an older version saves it as a new version, so nothing is overwritten.

Account and subscription

Changing your plan

Plans are agreed with us directly. To add people or sites, or to change your plan, write to us from the email address of a workspace owner.

Cancelling

Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current subscription period, as set out in your order. Ask for a copy of your content before that date.

The full rules are in our Cancellation policy.

Support

Can’t find it here? Write to us with your workspace name and what you were trying to do. A person on our team replies by email.

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