Invite your team to a forms project — by email or OrionGIS account

9 November 2026The OrionGIS team

Forms projects now have platform members: invite anyone by email or username as a data collector or team member, with accounts auto-created and a sign-in link emailed for people who don't have one yet.

Building a data collection team used to require support: the account, the project link, the role — each step done by hand. Today the project owner does it themselves.

The Platform members card on a forms project's team page does the whole job:

  • Invite by email or OrionGIS username. Pick the role — data collector for the people who open, fill and submit, or team member for the people who should also see the dashboards and manage the programme.
  • No account? No problem. Inviting an email that isn't on OrionGIS yet creates the account, links it to the project with the chosen role, and emails a one-time sign-in link that lands the person straight on their forms. No password to invent, no IT hand-holding.
  • See the team. Everyone linked to the project is listed with their role and join date, and an owner can remove someone with one click.

Guardrails come built in. Only the project's own members can invite or remove people — a data collector can't manage the team. Staff accounts can't be pulled in, and an account that belongs to a different client organisation is refused, so a project's team can't cross into another organisation's data.

This completes the picture the data collector role started: a programme manager can now build the whole field team — collectors and managers alike — from one page, and each person sees exactly what their role should.

Release notes: OrionGIS web 1.53.0