====== Working with companies ======

===== Owner company vs. client companies =====

You can store as many companies as you like in your Feng Office installation, but one of them is different from all the others: The so called //owner company// defines which company (or organisation or group of people) runs a Feng Office installation and therefore has some privileges. All the other companies are called //client companies.//

The two main differences between these two types of companies are:
  * Only users that belong to the owner company are eligible to become administrators.
  * There are no permission settings for the owner company.

===== Client companies =====

You can have as many client companies as you like in a single Feng Office installation. Users of different client companies can collaborate when you assign them to the same workspace.

PLEASE NOTE: Even if users do not share any workspace they still can find out about the existence of all other users from any company. This can be a problem if you have one single Feng Office installation for several clients and these clients should not know of each other, so be careful.((http://forums.opengoo.org/index.php?topic=443))

===== Users and Contacts =====

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A company can have users and contacts assigned to it. In the detail view of a company you can see, edit and create such users and contacts. (Please make sure you [[Users vs. Contacts|understand the difference between users and contacts]].)

===== Workspace permissions =====

Workspace permissions are part of a user profile, but there are workspace permissions on the company level as well. To understand these permissions (especially how they relate to the workspace permissions of a single user), please read [[user_rights|Understanding user rights]]. 

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