Getting Started Guide for Team Owners

Welcome to the CrossClave community! We're very excited that you've joined us and hope you'll have a great experience using CrossClave.

Download the CrossClave Application

You and each of the users in your team will need to download the CrossClave application. You can do so by clicking below.

Platform	Download Link
Windows	CrossClave Windows
Mac	CrossClave Mac
Android (Play Store)	CrossClave Android

 

After installation, launch CrossClave and select the Create a Team button. (The join a team button is for people simply looking to join an existing team)

 

Teams are the basic unit of users in CrossClave. Within a team, users collaborate in Spaces to work on files or chat. Members of a team can see other members of a team, and can create spaces and add other team members to the space. 

Enter your E-mail Address

After selecting to create a team, you will be prompted to enter your e-mail address. Bear in mind that this will be the address you receive information and login confirmations at, be certain you are entering it correctly.

Once you've entered your e-mail address, select continue. This will send a confirmation e-mail to the e-mail address you entered. Be sure to click the confirmation e-mail link before continuing to the next step.

 

Create your Team

After clicking the Continue button you will be prompted to give yourself and your team a name. These are the names that other people will see when accessing your team.

Enter the name you wish, then select 'Create Team'.

Recovery Phrase

Your team will then be created. CrossClave will then present you with a Recovery Phrase. This is essentially the password for your CrossClave account application (This is not the password you would use to access your online billing). Your Recovery Phrase is a long string of English words separated by spaces. The Recovery Phrase is generated on your device and is unique to your CrossClave profile.

Your Recovery Phrase is very important! You can use the Recovery Phrase if you need to install CrossClave on a different computer or reinstall after a system upgrade. This is the only time when you will be presented with the Recovery Phrase, so please be sure to record it somewhere safe. It should never be shared with another CrossClave user.

As noted on the screen, SpiderOak cannot retrieve your Recovery Phrase if you forget it. It is essential that you record your Recovery Phrase somewhere safe so you can retrieve it in the future if needed. You can highlight the text of the Recovery Phrase and use a keyboard shortcut to copy, or simply click the Copy button. After recording the Recovery Phrase, click the Continue button.

On the next screen please double check that you definitely have your Recovery Phrase saved somewhere. This is a final check to make sure you have the Recovery Phrase correctly recorded. After checking the Recovery Phrase again, click 'Yes, I saved it'.

Onboarding Team Members

(You can read more about how end users (those not creating teams) go through the team join workflow in this article.)

First, navigate to the team settings menu by selecting the hamburger menu in the top left of the CrossClave application window and select the settings cog. Then Select the name of the team you wish to add users to. This will show a list of all the users in the team currently. To add another user select the blue '+' icon in the top right of the window. You will be prompted to enter a name for this user you are adding. Note: this name will be how others send notifications to this user and the name others will see as their identity. After entering their name, select the 'Create Invite' Button. You will be presented with a sub window with a string of words (similar to the recovery phrase). Copy this string of words and send this to the end user you wish to add to your team.

The end-user will then need to perform the steps listed in the Getting Started Guide for End Users article. in the meantime you will see the pending invite in your team user list until the end-user is able to onboard.

Once the end-user has successfully onboarded the user avatar will illuminate to a more vibrant color and can then be added to other spaces within the team.

Special notes

*Currently only the administrator who creates the invite for an end-user can see the pending invites.

Getting Started Guide for End Users

We provide documentation for end users in our Getting Started Guide for End Users. Please feel free to send your users to that article so they can download the application and follow the steps to set up CrossClave.