Signing In

The web app and the StoryletEngine Server are online services, so they ask you to sign in. (The desktop app doesn't - it runs locally with no account and no login.)

How you sign in

You can sign in with Google or with an email and password:

• Google - click Sign in with Google and pick your account.
• Email and password - enter them and click Sign in with email. New here? Choose Create an account; we email you a verification link, and once you've clicked it you can sign in. Forgotten your password? Use Forgot password? to get a reset email.

Two things to know about email accounts: you must verify your email (click the link we send) before you can sign in, and creating an account doesn't grant access on its own - you still need an invite to an organisation (below).

Signing in only proves who you are. What you're allowed to do is decided separately, by your role within an organisation - see Members and Roles.

Organisations

Everything you create belongs to an organisation, never to you personally. An organisation owns its storyworlds, and (on the server side) its applications and live sessions. You take part by being a member of one.

You can belong to more than one organisation, and you can hold a different role in each. When you sign in, you're working within one organisation at a time.

Organisations also differ in which services they can use. Whether an organisation can use the StoryletEngine Server is a setting on the organisation, so even with an account and a server role you might not be able to sign in to the server at all - that's a property of your organisation, not your personal access.

Why you might see less than a colleague

If a button, a panel, or even a whole page is missing for you but there for someone else, it's almost always because your role doesn't include that capability, not because something is broken. A reviewer can browse and comment but won't see editing controls; only an administrator sees the member-management panel.

If you think you should have more access, your organisation's administrator can adjust your role. See Members and Roles.

Being invited

You get into an organisation through an invite link. Someone (a manager or administrator) sends you a link - open it, sign in with Google or email/password, and you're taken straight into the organisation, with no separate "accept" step.

Each link works once and then expires, so if it says the link is invalid or expired, just ask whoever invited you for a fresh one. (Links aren't always emailed automatically, so they might simply send you the link directly.)