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People on a model and their roles

Invite people into one model, each in one role, and have the approver sign the brief off from a link.

You will see the roles a person can hold on a model, how an invitation reaches them, and how the approver signs the brief off without an account.

01One model, four roles

A model's owner invites people into that one model, not into a whole project, and gives each one role. The roles are the Programme's four (Part 3): the brief owner, the designer, the reviewer and the approver.

Calq checks the role on every change, whether it comes from the board, a save, a restore of the history or Calq AI: what a role may not change is kept as it was, and the person is told. Calq AI works for each person within their role.

ROLEMAY CHANGECALQ AI FOR THEMTHEIR PARTOwnerEverything, and who is on the modelEditsThe model is theirsBrief ownerThe brief: its lines, targets, rule andtoleranceEditsDecides what the designer asksDesignerThe building, and the links of its rooms tothe briefEditsA change to a target goes to the briefownerReviewerNothing: follows the model and the brief, andcommentsReadsWhere the design standsApproverNothing but the sign-off of the briefReadsSigns what the brief owner acceptedChecked on every changeThe board, a save, a restore and Calq AI meet the same rule: what a role may not change is kept as it was, and said.
The owner and the four roles: what each may change, and how Calq AI works for them.

02The role in the Programme drawer

Open the Programme drawer from the Rooms toolset. As the owner you see the four roles as tabs (1), and may look at the brief as each one sees it; under them (2), one line says what that role does. Here the designer.

A person invited into the model sees no tabs: the drawer holds the one role they were given, said as given to them by the owner of the model.

The Programme drawer: the four roles as tabs, and what the designer does.
The Programme drawer: the four roles as tabs, and what the designer does.

03Invite someone

On a saved model, Share holds People on this model, the one card where people are managed (the Programme drawer shows the same card to the owner). Type an address, pick a role and press Invite:

  1. Calq emails an invitation that works once, and only for that address.
  2. They sign in with that address, or make a free account with it.
  3. They open the model in their role. An invited person never pays to join.

From the card the owner changes a role, sends an invitation again (the old link stops working), withdraws it, or takes someone off the model: their access ends at once. How many people a model may hold depends on the owner's plan, on calq.live/pricing. Copy link copies the model's address, which opens only for the people on it.

01InviteThe owner, in ShareTypes an addressPicks one of the fourrolesPresses Invite02The emailSent by CalqAn invitation that worksonceOnly for that addressSent again or withdrawnfrom the card03Sign inThe person invitedSigns in with thataddressOr makes a free accountwith itNever pays to join04On the modelIn their roleOpens the model from itsaddressWorks within the rolegivenTheir role changed ortaken off by the ownerHow many people a model holdsThe people on a model and its open invitations both count, against the owner's plan: see calq.live/pricing.
An invitation: from an address and a role to a person on the model.

04The brief signed off from a link

The approver signs the brief off without a Calq account. Under Sign-off in the Programme drawer, the brief owner asks an address: Calq emails a link that works once, for seven days, bound to the model, to that address and to the brief as it stood when it was asked.

The approver opens the link, asks for a code sent to that address, types it and signs or refuses. The sign-off is written into the model as the approver. Sign-off then says signed or refused, by whom and when, or changed since when the brief or what the model measures moved after it was signed: ask again to have it signed as it stands.

01AskThe brief owner, in Sign-offTypes the approver'saddressThe brief as it standsis sealedAn ask may be withdrawn02The linkEmailed by CalqWorks once, for sevendaysBound to the model andthe addressNeeds no account03The codeThe approverAsks for a code at thataddressSix digits, good forfifteen minutesProves the address istheirs04Sign or refuseWritten into the modelAs the approver, withthat addressKept on the brief withits dateSeen by everyone on themodelWhat Sign-off saysNot signed, signed, refused, or changed since: the brief or what the model measures moved after it was signed, so it is asked again.
The sign-off from a link: the ask, the email, the code and the signature.
You should now haveThe roles a person may hold on a model, how an invitation reaches them, and how the brief is signed off from a link.
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