Project collaboration modes allow you to manage project visibility and interaction levels, ensuring better control and collaboration within your organization.
The collaboration mode of a project defines who within your Unleash instance can access the project. This setting also determines who can submit change requests–a feature that provides controlled and secure updates for feature flags.
Unleash supports three collaboration modes: open, protected, and private. A user’s predefined root and project roles, as well as their custom root roles, determine what projects they can access.
All users of your Unleash instance can view the project and submit change requests. This is the default collaboration mode.
All users of your Unleash instance can view the project but only project Members and Admins can submit change requests.
Only project Members, Admins, Editors, and users with any custom root role can view the project. Viewers, who are not project Members, can’t see the project in the project list. Only project Members and Admins can submit change requests.
To create a new project with a specific collaboration mode, do the following:
To modify the collaboration mode of an existing project, do the following:
When you change the collaboration mode of an existing project to protected, all users who do not have sufficient permissions lose the ability to create new change requests. Existing change requests remain in place. Users with insufficient permissions can still cancel their change requests but can no longer update them.
When you change the collaboration mode of an existing project to private, all users who do not have sufficient permissions lose access to the project, including their existing change requests.
When upgrading Unleash to version 4.22.0 or later, all migrated projects get the open collaboration mode by default. See Modify project collaboration mode for instructions on changing the collaboration mode of an existing project.