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Outline

Team knowledge base for documents, collections, comments, members, groups, and workspace content.

Supports team knowledge-base work across documents, collections, comments, members, groups, and workspace content.

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Example Use Cases

These are example ways Snow can use Outline when building apps with you. This list is meant to show examples, not document every possible capability. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these automatically on its own.

Activate User

Tool to activate a previously suspended user in Outline. Activating a user allows them to sign in again and will cause billing totals to be re-calculated in the hosted version. Use when you need to restore access for a suspended user.

Add Document User

Tool to add a user membership to a document. Use when you need to grant a user access to a specific document.

Add Group to Collection

Tool to add a group to a collection in Outline. Use when you need to grant all members of a group access to a specific collection with read or write permissions.

Add Group to Document

Tool to give all members in a group access to a document. Use when you need to grant document-level access permissions to an entire group at once, rather than adding individual users one by one.

Add User to Collection

Tool to add a user to a collection with specified permissions. Use when you need to grant a user access to a specific collection.

Add User to Group

Tool to add a user to a group. Use when you need to grant a user membership in a specific group.

Archive Document

Tool to archive a document in Outline. Use when you need to move outdated information out of sight while retaining the ability to search and restore it later.

Create Attachment

Tool to create an attachment in Outline. This creates a database record and returns the inputs needed to generate a signed URL and upload the file from the client to cloud storage. Use when you need to prepare an attachment for upload to associate with a document.

Create Collection

Tool to create a new collection in Outline. Use when you need to organize documents by creating a new collection with a specific name, description, icon, color, and permission settings.

Create Comment

Tool to create a comment on an Outline document. Use when you need to add a comment or reply to a document. Either text or data field is required for the comment body.