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Workgroups

Overview

The Workgroup API provides tools for managing the organizations and resources included in a baseline ecosystem. A Workgroup represents a logical collection of resources provisioned within Provide's containerized microservices architecture and designed to facilitate shared business processes amongst a group of known participants. A Workgroup is immutably configured upon initialization with support for a primary Network.
Access to programmatically manage resources associated with a Workgroup is provided via REST API, to which ACL-based authorization is managed using generic permissions.

Application

Workgroups are used to establish rulesets and define resources for use by participants in a shared baseline process. Typically, Workgroup variables are stored in a configurable Vault, defaulting to the organizational Vault as defined by the ecosystem operator

Fundamentals

Ecosystem

A Workgroup exists within a broader environment that includes all external resources needed to complete an end-to-end baselined process. In Provide Baseline, this environment is known as the Ecosystem or Baseline Ecosystem. An ecosystem can encompass systems of record, participants, external workgroups, networks, infrastructure or hosting environments.
An ecosystem is provisioned, curated and managed by an Ecosystem Operator.

Ecosystem Operator

An Ecosystem Operator is responsible for Workgroup creation, ecosystem management, Workflow design, and infrastructure architecture. Upon Workgroup initialization, the ecosystem operator defaults to the creating User. The ecosystem operator can be changed via an Update Workgroup request within an authorized scope.

Participants

Organizations or other entities included in a Workgroup are referred to as participants. Organizations are invited to become a participant in a Workgroup by way of an Invitation.

Using Workgroups

Prerequisites

The Workgroup API is intended to function within the context of an Organization
Within this context, it is assumed that:
  • an Organization scoped JWT is available for use
  • id of host Network is known

Workgroup Schema

Field
Type
Description
config
object
arbitrary data pertaining to Workflow
created_at
date/time
timestamp of Workgroup creation
hidden
boolean
when true, workgroup in not visible in public workgroup table
id
uuid
id of Workgroup
network_id
string
id of Network on which workgroup is registered
organization_id
string
id of Organizationserving as ecosystem operator
participants
array
list of workgroup participants
privacy_policy
string
arbitrary privacy policy encompassing the Workgroup
security_policy
string
arbitrary security policy encompassing the Workgroup
tokenization_policy
object
object that defines the tokenization policies made available to workgroup participants
type
uuid
type of workgroup; defaults to baseline
user_id
string
id of User that initialized workgroup creation

API Requests

List Workgroups

Returns a list of workgroups within the authorized scope
get
https://baseline.provide.services
/api/v1/workgroups
List Workgroups

Get Workgroup Details

get
https://baseline.provide.services
/api/v1/workgroups/:id
Get Workgroup Details

Create Workgroup

Creates a Workgroup per the provided parameters
post
https://baseline.provide.services
/api/v1/workgroups
Create Workgroup

Update Workgroup

Updates a specified Workgroup
post
https://baseline.provide.services
/api/v1/workgroups
Update Workgroup

List Workgroup Participants

Returns a list of participants in a specified Workgroup
get
https://baseline.provide.services
/api/v1/workgroups/:id/participants
List Workgroup Participants