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The administrator can use scopes to share VM templates and VApp specs.
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The administrator can manage shared templates and specs with scopes if they have the Allow user to switch enterprises privilege and administrator access to the resource in the enterprise that owns it. The administrator can share a template or spec with their own scope, other available scopes, or a child scope in their hierarchy. |
To share a template:
Access the owner enterprise
Go to Apps library → select datacenter or public cloud region → Edit template
Add one or more available scopes
The global scope means that users from all current and future enterprises can access this template.
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If the customers create their own scope hierarchy for their departments, then customers can share resources with the departments by scope.
Resource scope summary
Q: Which administrators can edit templates or specs?
A: Administrators in the owner enterprise (creator) with permissions to administer other enterprises
Q: How can admins share resources to users of other enterprises?
Assign scopes
Abiquo reads the list of enterprises in the scopes and allows users from these enterprises to use the resources
Administrators can share templates with scopes in their own scope and scopes below their scope in the scope hierarchy tree