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Creating a Workspace

In this article, you'll learn how to create a workspace from your Product Catalog in Altana. Workspaces allow you to drill down into specific products, surface insights and risk, and take action. They're the ideal way to interact with your catalog data.

Step 1: From the home screen, navigate to the Catalog in the left-hand menu.

Your catalog is a repository of all the information Altana has about your products. This includes the list of products that are included in Altana, variants of those products, such as specific colors or styles, the suppliers that supply those products across all tiers of your value chains, and the T1 suppliers that supply you directly.

Step 2: To create a workspace, start by filtering your catalog. If you want to create a workspace with all of the products in your catalog, click Create Workspace.

Step 3: If you want to create a workspace that only has a subset of your products in it, first apply filters to your catalog. For instance, if you want to create a workspace that only contains shirts with suppliers that are located in China, you could apply those filters to your catalog.

Step 4: After applying those filters, your product catalog will be filtered down to only the relevant products. Now, when you select Create Workspace, you can create a workspace with these filters applied to it.

Step 5: Give your workspace a name and create it. Your products will be carried through from the catalog into your new workspace with the filters that you applied.

Step 6: Apply a lens to this workspace. Lenses are different ways of viewing the data contained within a workspace. A few different lenses come standard with every workspace:

  • Suppliers by Status - Allows you to track and manage suppliers according to the status you've assigned them.

  • All Exposures - Identifies products with any type of exposure

  • Forced Labor Exposures - Identifies products with forced labor exposures

You can also ask your Technical Account Manager to create custom lenses that surface the insights you care about most.

For more information about how to apply lenses and get the most out of your workspace, see this article.