Organizations and Projects
Convoy provides the tools to properly categorise your data. These tools are organisations and projects.
Organisations
An organisation is the highest level namespace within a Convoy instance. It comprises several projects. Ideally, this should map to a real-world organisation or some form of high-level grouping.
As a new user, an organization can be created by clicking on the Create Organisation on the dashboard:
To switch between organizations, open the current organization’s settings, or create a new organization, use the account dropdown on the right of the top bar.
Adding new members
In the Community Edition, all users are super users, so all users can invite other team members.
Before doing this, ensure you have your SMTP configuration set up.
To add a new team member, visit the teams page at the top middle of the page.
Once the invite is sent, the user will get an email with an invitation link to join the new project. An invitation token is valid for 2 weeks after which you’d need to generate a new one.
Projects
A project is a hierarchical namespace for all core resources within Convoy. All events, endpoints, subscriptions and all other critical configurations belong to a project and a project belongs to an organisation.
There are two types of projects; Incoming and Outgoing projects.
Incoming project
An incoming project is designed to receive webhooks from third-party party sources like Github, Twilio, Stripe etc. and even custom sources based on any form of verification. It was designed for API consumers.
Outgoing project
An outgoing project is designed to publish webhooks to users’ endpoints. It is designed for API providers.
Configure a Project
The following are parameters that can be configured on a project.
| Config | Type | Supported Values | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signature Details | |||
| Header | String | X-Convoy-Signature | |
| Hash | String | SHA512 | |
| Retry Logic | |||
| Mechanism | String | Linear time retry, Exponential time backoff | Linear time retry |
| Duration | Duration String | 5s | |
| Limit | Integer | 5 | |
| Rate Limit | |||
| Duration | Duration String | 5s | |
| Limit | Integer | 5 | |
| Others | |||
| Disable Failing Endpoint | Boolean | False | |
| Search Policy | Duration String | 720h (30 days) | |
| Enable Meta Events | Boolean | False |
Relationship with subscription
All these configurations act as sensible defaults for all subscriptions in a project. A project can’t exist without all these parameters defined in the project. Each configuration can also be described on subscriptions in a project, where a subscription doesn’t define these parameters, we fall back to the project’s defaults.
Multiple Projects
There are several practical ways of using projects:
- A project per environment: You can decide to test your integration with a development or staging environment, before going live to a production environment to keep data separate.
- A project per product: If you have several projects, you can scope them differently on Convoy too.
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