Core concepts
Almost everything you do in iontos — organizing knowledge, deciding who can see it, onboarding a team, standing up a new client — rests on a small set of ideas. Learn these six and the rest of the product reads naturally.
The single most useful thing to hold in mind is that iontos keeps two questions deliberately separate:
- How is the data organized, and who inherits it? — answered by scopes and the data tree.
- Who can see and do what? — answered by roles, grants, and user visibility.
Data is inherited in a single direction — a scope automatically sees everything above it, up toward the root — while access is placed deliberately, grant by grant. Keeping these two apart is what lets iontos serve a single small team and a multi-company operator with the same model.
What to read
| # | Concept | In one line |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scopes and the data tree | Where knowledge lives, and how it is inherited and isolated. |
| 2 | Organizations and confidentiality | The boundary that decides which people can see each other. |
| 3 | Roles | The kinds of access a person can hold. |
| 4 | Grants | How access is given, and how far it reaches. |
| 5 | Who can see which users | Which people an administrator can find and manage. |
| 6 | Groups | Granting access to sets of people instead of one at a time. |
Read them in order the first time — each builds on the ones before it. These pages explain the model; step-by-step guides for each task follow in their own section.