📘 Getting Started
Essential concepts and first steps for managing users and permissions in your ARPIA Workarea.
📘 Getting Started
Essential concepts and first steps for managing users and permissions in your ARPIA Workarea.
Getting Started with User Management
Welcome! This section covers the foundational concepts you need to understand before managing users and permissions in ARPIA.
🎯 Who This Is For
This section is essential if:
- ✅ You just created your ARPIA Workarea
- ✅ You're the Super User or ADMIN
- ✅ You need to add team members and control their access
- ✅ You're new to ARPIA's permission system
📚 What You'll Learn
Read this first to understand the two core concepts:
- Super User Profile - Automatically created and assigned to the Workarea creator. Full, unrestricted access to everything in the Workarea.
- Security Profiles - Custom permission sets you must create for all other users.
Critical: A new Workarea only has the Super User profile available by default. All other profiles must be created manually before adding users.
Time to read: 5 minutes
Understand Workareas before setting up your team:
- How to create and switch between Workareas
- Owner vs Invited user types and how billing works
- Why user type matters when removing users
Note: Workareas, users, and platform features are subject to credit consumption based on your organization's contracted plan. Review your plan before adding Workareas or users.
Time to read: 5 minutes
Step-by-step guide to set up your Workarea for the first time:
- Create Security Profiles (ADMIN, DEV, USER, VIEWER)
- Add your team members
- Assign profiles to grant access
- Verify everything works
Time to complete: 30-45 minutes
Optional but recommended — connect ARPIA to your organization's Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 / Azure AD:
- No passwords to manage
- Login is automatic with your existing provider
- Login method is set per user at creation time
Note: Your ARPIA link must be authorized in your organization's Whitelist before SSO can work. Ask your IT admin if unsure.
Time to read: 5 minutes
🚀 Quick Start Path
If you just created your Workarea:
- Start with Understanding ARPIA's Permission System
- Then follow First-Time Workarea Setup
- Create your first Security Profiles
- Add your team and assign profiles
- Optionally, configure SSO for passwordless login
If your Workarea is already set up:
Skip to:
- Security Profile - Manage permission sets
- Users - Manage users
- SSO - Switch users to SSO login
💡 Key Takeaway
Before you can effectively add users to ARPIA, you must:
- ✅ Understand the Super User profile and how Security Profiles work
- ✅ Create Security Profiles (none exist by default beyond Super User)
- ✅ Decide on login method: Password or SSO (set per user at creation)
- ✅ Then add users and assign profiles
Important for Admins: If you need to switch an existing user to SSO, this must be done from the Workarea where the user was originally created.