# Workspace settings

> What General holds and who can change it, how to delete a workspace, where notification settings live, and how Trash keeps deleted items for 30 days.

Source: https://orbitalaip.com/docs/workspace-and-account/workspace-settings

## Open workspace settings

Settings opens as a dialog over the page you are on.

1. Click your avatar at the bottom of the sidebar.

2. Under **Workspace**, click **General**.

You can also go to [app.orbitalaip.com/settings/workspace/general](https://app.orbitalaip.com/settings/workspace/general).

Settings always shows the current [workspace](https://orbitalaip.com/docs/glossary#workspace). To change another workspace's settings, switch to it first. Open the workspace row at the top of the same menu and pick it under **Workspaces**.

## General

**General** holds four settings, in this order:

- **Workspace logo**: click **Choose** and pick a JPG, GIF or PNG of up to 1MB.

- **Workspace name**: a new name also goes on your invoices. A blank name is not saved.

- **Workspace ID**: the workspace's fixed identifier, which the button beside it copies. Its caption says it is sometimes used in API requests. A request made with an [API key](https://orbitalaip.com/docs/workspace-and-account/api-keys) can leave it out, since each key belongs to one workspace.

- **Country**: pick one of the 17 countries listed. It appears on your invoices and sets your tax location.

There is no Save button. A name saves when you stop typing or leave the field, and a country as soon as you pick it. For those two, the top right shows **Saving…**, then **Saved**, or the reason a change failed. A new logo saves at once and shows **Workspace image updated**.

Only workspace owners and admins can change the logo, the name or the country. For anyone else, **Workspace name** and **Country** are greyed out, and a logo upload is refused. See [Members and roles](https://orbitalaip.com/docs/workspace-and-account/members-and-roles).

## Delete a workspace

Only the owner sees **Delete workspace**, under **Danger zone** at the foot of **General**. It never appears in your personal workspace (**Personal** unless you renamed it), which goes only with your account.

> [!WARNING] Deleting is permanent
> The workspace goes at once, with every project and everything in it. Nothing is kept in **Trash**, and it cannot be undone.

1. **Switch to the workspace**
   
   Pick it under **Workspaces** in the account menu.

2. **Click Delete**
   
   On **General**, click **Delete** beside **Delete workspace**.

3. **Confirm**
   
   In the **Delete workspace** dialog, click **Delete workspace**, or **Cancel** to keep it.

Orbital shows **Workspace deleted**, cancels the workspace's subscription and switches you to your personal workspace. If Orbital refuses, the dialog stays open and says why.

## Notification settings

**Notifications**, under **Account** in the same menu, holds your own delivery settings for the current workspace.

Its card **Where notifications reach you** sets which channels each category reaches on top of your inbox. See [Notifications](https://orbitalaip.com/docs/alerts-and-notifications/notifications).

## Trash

Trash holds deleted items for 30 days, so you can restore them. Its page reads **Deleted items stay here for 30 days, then go permanently.**

Trash is not in the account menu. To open it:

1. Click your avatar and pick any page under **Account** or **Workspace**.

2. Click **Trash** at the foot of the Settings sidebar.

You can also go to [app.orbitalaip.com/settings/trash](https://app.orbitalaip.com/settings/trash). It lists the current project's items, plus deleted notification channels and saved views from across the workspace.

Each row shows the name, the kind and the days left, such as **Workflow · 12 days left**. The count turns amber in the last 7 days, and reads **Deleted permanently today** when time is up.

### What goes to Trash

These items go to Trash when you delete them. A deleted strategy appears as its workflow, a note by its symbol and a chat by its title.

| Shown as | Delete permanently also removes |
| --- | --- |
| Chat | Its messages, pasted images and anything shared from it |
| Dashboard | Its widgets and saved views |
| Document | Its extracted text, search index and the citations that point into it |
| Workflow | Its versions, run history, schedules and triggers, and for a strategy, the strategy and its backtests |
| Agent | Its run history, tasks and automations, and the artifacts it made, with any dashboard tiles placed from them |
| Watchlist | Its symbols |
| Notification channel | Its delivery settings |
| Note | Its comment thread |
| Saved view | Nothing else |

For a strategy's workflow, the dialog names only the run history, schedules and triggers. The strategy and its backtests go too.

A saved view whose dashboard is also in Trash shows **comes back with** and the dashboard's name instead of a count. Its **Restore** is greyed out until you restore that dashboard.

Workspaces, your account and plugin connections never go to Trash. Deleted notifications wait under **Deleted** in the inbox instead.

### Who sees what

Chats, documents and notification channels show only to their owner. Workspace owners and admins also see every deleted document and notification channel. Of those channels, they can restore only shared ones and their own. Everything else shows to everyone in the [project](https://orbitalaip.com/docs/glossary#project).

Restoring an item takes the same role as deleting it.

### Restore an item

1. **Open Trash**
   
   Open it from the foot of the Settings sidebar, as above.

2. **Open the row's menu**
   
   Click ⋮ at the end of the row.

3. **Click Restore**
   
   Orbital shows, for example, **Workflow restored**. The item returns with its contents.

To restore several:

1. **Select the rows**
   
   Tick each row's box.

2. **Click Restore**
   
   Click **Restore** in the bar that appears.

If some cannot come back, the message says why, and those rows stay selected.

A restored workflow comes back with its schedules and triggers off. Turn them on again in the workflow editor. An agent's automations come back on or off, as they were, and an archived agent comes back archived.

Restoring is refused when the workspace is at its plan's limit for that kind of item. Dashboards, documents, workflows and agents count toward those limits. Orbital shows **Could not restore** with the limit, and the item stays in Trash.

### Delete permanently

**Delete permanently** removes an item before its 30 days are up. Only workspace owners and admins can use it. Others still see it, and Orbital refuses with **Insufficient permissions. Required role: owner or admin**.

1. **Pick the item**
   
   Click **Delete permanently** in the row's menu, or in the bar for a selection.

2. **Read the dialog**
   
   For one item it names what goes with it. For several it gives the count, and the kinds when there are three or fewer. Either way it says this cannot be undone.

3. **Confirm**
   
   Click **Delete permanently**, or **Cancel** to keep it. Orbital shows **Deleted permanently**, or for a selection a count such as **3 items deleted permanently**.

A workflow that was ever deployed as a strategy cannot be deleted permanently. Orbital refuses with **This workflow has been deployed as a strategy, so it cannot be deleted permanently. The deployment record keeps the version it ran, and the workflow stays in Trash.** After 30 days its row reads **Deleted permanently today**, but it stays, and you can still restore it. See [deployment](https://orbitalaip.com/docs/glossary#deployment).

## Admin pages

An **Admin** group with **Waitlist** and **Users** appears only on Orbital staff accounts. It is for running the service, not a workspace setting.