An instance is the highest organizational unit in the Mediebank. An instance consists of one or more organizations.
Some common examples of instances with several organizations may be:
A media group with a variety of publications.
A holding company with its subsidiaries
An organization with various departments
Intra-organizational sharing
Organizations within an instance may be allowed to share assets directly between one another, if they have activated one or both of the following instance-features:
Shared collections: If this feature is activated, admins may share collections with other organizations within the same instance. When more than one organization is given access to a collection, all users in those organizations can access the assets within it. All organizations with access to a collection may add assets to it.
Cross-organizational search: When this feature is activated, users may choose whether they want to search for assets in all organizations, or only their own.
Intra-organizational sharing features is disabled by default. To enable these features, contact your technical account manager. |
Domain and access
Each instance have its own unique domain and separate login system. Usually, this is connected the customers own Identity and Access Management system (see SSO authentication) , but there are some notable exceptions:
NTB: The NTB-instance is accessed by a username and password to an NTB-account.
TT: The TT-instance is accessed by a username and password to a TT-account.
STT: The STT-instance is accessed by a username and password to an STT-account.