Workspaces

Quartet Workspaces organize related Search Projects into shared, high-level containers for easier access and collaboration. Shared notes, tags, and reports enhance consistency and efficiency across thematically linked projects.

Quartet Workspaces provide a way to organize and manage related Search Projects, especially useful when working across multiple cases, clients, or technology areas. A Workspace acts like a larger folder that contains individual Search Projects, grouping them together for easier access and collaboration.

Within a Workspace created notes, tags and reports can be shared across all Search Projects included. This helps maintain consistency and saves time when working on thematically related searches. Notes and tags can be shared with others or kept private, depending on preferences.

Workspaces can be shared broadly across your organization or restricted to selected colleagues, making it easy to coordinate with team members while keeping control over access. This structure supports both solo work and collaborative efforts, helping you keep search work organized and accessible.

Creating and managing Workspaces

From the Quartet Home page, click on the “+ New Workspace” button towards the top right-hand corner:

Enter the Workspace name and an optional description, then set the Workspace permissions:

Permissions on setup

  • Only me – to set the Workspace as private.
  • Selected users – share the Workspace with selected users. In the lookup box find who the Workspace should be shared with.
  • All users in my Organization – share a workspace with all users. Set the default permission for all users (see table below). It is possible to add individual users with different permissions, e.g. all users should by default be viewers, however some should be editors.

Please note that Workspace permissions can be changed as needed.

When sharing with selected users or the entire organization, multiple permission rights are available:

 Role  Description 
 Owner Can edit workspace properties and manage permissions. Additionally, they can create Search Projects within the Workspace
 Editor Can create search projects within the Workspace as well as see notes and tags added in the Search Projects within the Workspace
 Viewer Can see a list of Search Projects along with their notes and tags
No accessThis setting is useful if a Workspace has been shared with an entire organization, however some users should not have access to the Workspace. In this case, look up the relevant users in the search box and set the access rights as needed

 

For all permission options, notes and tags are automatically shared across Search Projects within the Workspace – if selected on the Workspace. This means that if an annotated or tagged record appears in multiple Search Projects in the Workspace, the information will be available across all Search Projects. It is possible to toggle this option off and on as needed.

Please note, that when annotating records, you will also have the possibility to set access rights for individual notes.

Pro Tip: Add multiple notes in the same place with different access rights.

Click on Create Workspace to save and start adding Search Projects.

Once the Workspace has been created the very first page displayed is the Workspace management page, where it is possible to create Search Projects and control the Share settings from the right-hand side.

To access the Workspace management page for an existing Workspace, simply click the workspace from the list of workspaces on the home page

From the workspace page, all the details and sharing settings of that workspace, along with associated projects are shown

 

Workspaces with multiple users will have one user designed as the Searcher on each Search Project. The Searcher is the only one who can run searches, edit Reports, add records to the Saved list and create alerts.

To designate or change the Searcher, click on Open Workspace to the right of the relevant Workspace, choose the dropdown list under Searcher, make the changes as necessary, the click on Confirm within the pop-up message.

Selecting access

On the Home page, by default only Search Project assigned to you are visible, to view all Search Projects, choose the project option from the Workspaces/Projects slider. Additionally within this, the view can be toggled between "My search projects" which are only projects created by that account, and "All Search Projects" which includes projects shared with that account.

 

Additionally, within the menu it is possible to select what information to display for each Workspace:

  • Reference
  • Project name
  • Description
  • Searcher
  • Creation date
  • Last update

 

Deleting a Workspace

To delete a Workspace either Open the Workspace and click the Delete Workspace button in the top right-hand corner, or click on the three dots next to the relevant Workspace, then select Delete Workspace:

If the Workspace contains Search Projects, a prompt will appear where it is possible to:

  • Delete all Search Projects along with the Workspace
  • Move Search Projects to another Workspace

If selecting to move the Search Projects, a dropdown list will appear, which contains all the available Workspaces.

Delete confirm

After selecting the new Workspace click on Confirm to make the changes.

Leaving a Workspace

To leave a Workspace enter the Workspace management page or select the Leave Workspace via the three dots to the right of the relevant Workspace.

There are a couple of options available, depending on the access level.

  • If the owner leaves, they must choose a new owner.
  • If the person leaving is the searcher on any projects, they must reassign those projects to someone else.

Only the workspace owner can add users back to the workspace.

Reassigning a Search Project within a Workspace

Search Projects within Workspaces can be reassigned either by the Searcher or the Workspace owner.

To reassign a Search Project, click on Open Workspace, then from the Searcher dropdown menu on the relevant Search Project, select the new Searcher and click Confirm.
Please note that the original Searcher will have Viewer access to the Search Project unless removed from the Workspace.

Move Search Projects to another Workspace

Search Projects can be moved between Workspaces either by clicking on the three dots next to the relevant Workspace on the Homepage and selecting “Move to other Workspace”.

Alternatively, by opening a Workspace, then clicking on the three dots to the right of the relevant project and selecting “Move to other Workspace”:

For both options, on the pop up, select the Workspace to move the Search Project to via the dropdown selection.

It is possible to keep a copy of the Tags and Notes added to the records in the original Workspace, should you wish these to appear on the records in a different Search project. If this option is selected, please choose another Search Project available within the Workspace to copy the data to.
Any notes or tags will now automatically appear on the records, should they appear in existing searches or new searches within the Search Project.

Complete the action by clicking on the Confirm button.

 

Permissions for Viewers when accessing a project 

Sections and Functionalities 
Project SettingsViewer-Only Permissions
Delete project
Edit project properties
Timeline 
Export timeline
Open a search
Control view options
Run a new search
Update timeline
Reset timeline
Individual search menu (duplicate, mark as seen/unseen, add to report, delete search)
Notes 
View and search for Shared and Public notes
Add notes
Edit own notes
Export all notes
Remove own notes
Remove notes from other users
Tags 
Create new tags
Manage tags
Add tags to notes the user wrote
Add tags to documents
Remove tags from documents
Highlights 
Open highlights
Turn highlights on/off for the current user
Add/edit/remove highlights
Results list 
Export results
Run search insights
Adjust view options
Create a command from search insights
Mark results as seen/unseen
Add to timeline
Add to report
Document page 
Export documents
Print
Copy public link
Report missing data
Open PDF
Add/remove documents to Saved list
Add/remove documents from reports
Reports 
View report
Copy public link of report
Export in Report - Copy all numbers
Export in Report - Export documents
Manage view options
Export in Report - Add to Timeline
Create a new report
Edit existing reports
Delete reports
Change shared status of a report
Reset a report
Change order of documents
Alerts 
View alerts
Open alert update
Create alert
Edit alert
Delete alert

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