2. Use your personal workspace

Almost everything in OpenApp (integrations, devices, API keys) lives inside an organization (“org”). When you finish Create account (including accepting the terms when asked), OpenApp creates a personal workspace for you—an org where you are admin. The org switcher shows each org’s display name with a small Personal label beside your workspace. After Create account, look for something like Sam’s workspace or My workspace (from your account name).

Use one org for this guide—the one you admin:

1. After sign-in you land on Home. A new account with only a personal workspace auto-selects it — you do not need to pick an org. If you belong to more than one organization, open Access (or start the access-control wizard) after you have a site, and use the org switcher. While Home still asks how you want to start, the top nav is hidden; Organization resources stays in the user menu (avatar) for platform operators.
2. Platform operators open Organization resources from the user menu (avatar). Building owners reach the same tables from Settings → Organization resources. Open Organization resources if you are following the API steps below.
3. At the top of the Access or Organization resources page, open the org switcher (labeled Organization).

Organization switcher open on Access, showing Sam's workspace.(click to enlarge)

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4. Select your personal workspace and leave it selected for every step below:
   • If several orgs appear, pick the one named for you (see above), not a shared team or site org.
   • If the only org is not yours, Create account so you get a personal workspace for this guide.

Your org for this guide is not a fixed address in the link bar; the org switcher on Access and Organization resources pages is how you select it. When this guide points you to Integrations or other Organization resources screens, keep the same org selected.

Do not switch to other orgs while you follow this guide; they may be shared spaces with different permissions and will only slow you down here.

Beyond demos and personal workspaces

For non-demo and non-personal use — production hardware, shared operations with colleagues, or anything you expect to run long term — start from the Home chooser (or Access once it is in the nav) and choose Set up a company or property. That creates a dedicated organization under the org where you are admin (usually your personal workspace), then the first site under it. You do not get a separate admin row on the child—access is inherited. See Organizations for how orgs fit together. Do not use Organization resources → Organizations for this path; that table is for platform and debug use.

With that org selected in the org switcher, every Organization resources and Integrations screen in this guide applies to it. The next step spells out roles so it is clear why the controls you need are available (and what would differ in someone else’s org).

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