Article version: Enterprise Server 2.17
Organizing members into teams
You can group organization members into teams that reflect your company or group's structure with cascading access permissions and mentions.
About teams→
Teams are groups of organization members that reflect your company or group's structure with cascading access permissions and mentions.
Creating a team→
You can create independent or nested teams to manage repository permissions and mentions for groups of people.
Setting your team's profile picture→
Team maintainers and organization owners can set a profile picture for a team, which is displayed on the team's page.
Adding organization members to a team→
People with owner or team maintainer permissions can add organization members to teams. People with owner permissions can also add non-members to a team and the organization.
Renaming a team→
Team maintainers and organization owners can edit the name and description of a team.
Changing team visibility→
Team maintainers and organization owners can determine whether a team is visible or secret.
Moving a team in your organization’s hierarchy→
Team maintainers and organization owners can nest a team under a parent team, or change or remove a nested team's parent.
Requesting to add a child team→
If you have maintainer permissions in a team, you can request to nest an existing team under your team in your organization’s hierarchy.
Requesting to add or change a parent team→
If you have maintainer permissions in a team, you can request to nest your team under a parent team in your organization's hierarchy.
Removing organization members from a team→
People with owner or team maintainer permissions can remove team members from a team. This may be necessary if a person no longer needs access to a repository the team grants, or if a person is no longer focused on a team's projects.
Disabling team discussions for your organization→
Organization owners can choose to disable or enable team discussions across the organization.
Deleting a team→
Organization owners can delete teams at any time from the team's settings page.