Teamspace
A teamspace is the team your account works in on Cactus, with its name, its members and the email domains that let colleagues join. Each account belongs to one teamspace. Owners run it on the Teamspace page; other members see the same page without the controls.
On this page
Rename the teamspace
Only an owner can rename the teamspace, and the name holds up to 60 characters.
A new teamspace is named for its first owner, as in "Nour's teamspace".
In Teamspace, type the new name in Name.
Select Save. The new name shows to every member. Save stays off while the name is blank.
Change a member's role
Only an owner can change a role. The Role menu offers Owner and Member.
In Teamspace, open the Role menu beside the member and choose Owner or Member.
Remove a member
Only an owner can remove a member, and the only owner cannot be removed.
In Teamspace, select Remove beside the member.
Removing a member also clears their pending request to join and revokes the AI client access they hold for this teamspace.
Add an email domain
An owner can add only the domain of a verified email that they sign in with.
In Teamspace, select Add followed by your domain, under Email domains. The button appears only while your own domain is not listed yet.
Add the TXT record shown beside the domain to that domain's DNS. Its value is
cactus-verification=followed by a token Cactus makes for the domain.Select Check record. The domain shows Verified once Cactus finds the record there.
Only owners see the record, and only while the domain is not verified.
Who can join
Once a domain is verified, the Who can join section appears, with two choices for people who sign in on that domain. A new teamspace starts on the approval choice.
| Choice on the screen | What happens | | "Anyone with a @domain address joins on sign-in." | The person joins the teamspace as they sign in, with no request. | | "Colleagues ask, and an owner lets them in." | The person asks to join, and an owner approves or denies it under Requests. |
Joining by domain works only for a sign-in with a Google Workspace account on that domain. A consumer address does not count.
Requests to join
Owners see people who asked to join by domain, each with Approve and Deny.
In Teamspace, select Approve beside the person to let them in, or Deny to turn the request away.
Approving makes the person a member and emails them. Cactus emails the owners when a request comes in, and once more if nobody has answered.
Invite by email
Owners can invite anyone by email, whatever the address's domain.
In Teamspace, enter the address in Email and choose a Role: Member, which is picked first, or Owner.
Select Send invite. The person gets an email with a link to accept, which works for 7 days.
Pending invitations are listed under Invitations with their role and the days left. Select Cancel to end one.
Accept an invitation
The person who was invited accepts it after signing in with the invited address.
Open the link in the invitation email. Cactus accepts the invitation as the page opens.
Or sign in with the invited address. On Welcome, select Accept invitation. Select Not now, make my own teamspace to decline it.
An account can hold only one teamspace, so accepting an invitation while on another teamspace is refused.
What members see
Members who are not owners see the same page without the controls.
- The name, which they can read but not change.
- Each member's role as plain text, with no menu.
- Each email domain and whether it is Verified, with no Remove, Check record or record.
- No Who can join, Requests or Invitations sections.
If something doesn't work
| What you see | What it means | What to do | | "This invitation has expired. Ask for a new one." | The link is more than 7 days old, or it was declined, accepted or cancelled. | Ask an owner for a new invitation. | | "This invitation was sent to a masked address. Sign in with that account." | You are signed in with a different address. | Sign in with the invited address. | | "You already belong to your teamspace. Cactus supports one teamspace per account for now." | Your account is already on a teamspace. | Sign in with an account that is on no teamspace. | | "Already a member" | The address is already on this teamspace. | Find the person under Members; nothing needs sending. | | "Saved, but the email didn't go" beside an invitation | The invitation is saved, but its email was not sent. | Select Send invite again for that address. | | "The record isn't on domain yet. DNS changes can take a few minutes to show." | Cactus checked before the record showed in DNS. | Wait a few minutes, then select Check record again. | | "Cactus couldn't reach DNS just now. Try again in a minute." | The DNS lookup failed. | Select Check record again in a minute. | | "That domain already belongs to another teamspace" | Another teamspace has verified this domain, and a domain verifies for one teamspace only. | The other teamspace's owner must remove the domain first. | | "Your teamspace no longer proves domain in DNS, so it can't be joined by email domain. Ask an owner to invite you." | The record was removed from DNS, so joining by domain is off. | An owner adds the record back, then selects Check record. | | "Your request wasn't approved. Ask a teamspace owner to invite you." | An owner denied the request, and a new one cannot be sent. | Ask an owner to invite you by email. | | "They already belong to another teamspace." | The person you tried to approve is on another teamspace. | Nothing is approved; the request stays pending. |