Connect offers multiple ways to manage users–there’s no single “correct” approach. The system is designed with flexibility in mind, allowing your organization to assign access to font collections in a way that works best for your needs.
Prerequisites:
Make sure you've completed the "Adding a Font Library" step prior to setting up user management:
Connect Administration: Managing Font Libraries
Getting Started:
You can manage user access to fonts in three main ways:
- Individually
- By team
- Globally across your subscription
No matter your starting point, Connect makes it easy to scale and adapt as your organization grows.
How Do You Organize?
If you're new to Connect, it's helpful to start by thinking about how you want to structure access to your organization’s font libraries. How do your users work? Do they contribute individually, work on projects together, or manage fonts across global teams? Here are general questions to consider when organizing your users.
- Does your organization manage fonts by project, publication, or client?
- Do you assign access based on individuals, teams or departments?
- Do you group users by their role, such as Creative Directors or Designers?
- Do you need the flexibility to combine all of these approaches?
Inviting Users:
Starting at the Bottom
When you have lots of users who need access to fonts you may want to start them all off with basic (the least) permissions. Read Only will allow users to only activate and deactivate fonts within a library. You can easily expand access for users who need additional permissions. You can easily expand permissions later for users who need more control
Adding users to Connect is simple. If you already have them, you can skip this step. If you’re creating users for the first time, you’ll need to decide how your users gain access to the system. There are a few ways to add users:
For setups that organize more by the individual:
Inviting Individual Users:
Connect Administration: Adding, Modifying and Removing users
Inviting Users in Bulk:
Connect Administration: Bulk Importing a list of users (using a .csv file)
For setups that organize more by team or department:
Syncing Users via Directory Services:
SSO and Directory Service - Start Here!
Creating Teams
If you have users who belong to the same department or work on the same projects, it's best to begin user management with Teams. Teams let you group users who share similar font needs, making it easy to assign and manage consistent permissions across the group. This simplifies access control and ensures everyone on the team has what they need—no extra configuration required.
Managing Global Permissions
Please see Global Permissions