Workspace Type and Language

Tell TribeNest what kind of business you run and which language it should write things in, then let it set up the basics for you.

Under your profile name on the Profile tab there's a card called Workspace edition. It answers two questions about your workspace: what kind of business it is, and the language it creates things in.

Neither answer is locked in at sign-up any more. You can change both whenever your business changes, and changing them never takes anything away from you.

Where to find it

Open Settings from the sidebar.
Stay on the Profile tab (it's selected by default).
Scroll past the profile name card to Workspace edition.

You need settings access to see this card. If you can see it but the dropdowns are greyed out, you have view access only, and a line under them tells you to ask an owner or admin. See team for how access is granted.

Edition: what kind of workspace this is

The Edition dropdown tells TribeNest what sort of business you run. Today you can leave it on No edition, or pick a specialised one such as a law firm in Germany.

Picking an edition does two things:

It changes the words the product uses for its own concepts. In a law edition, a piece of work is called a matter rather than a project. The wording follows the trade you actually work in, so the dashboard reads like your business instead of a generic tool.
It offers you a starter pack to match. More on that below.

A ? beside the label explains the same thing on screen.

Changing edition never removes anything

An edition is a label plus an offer. Switching it, or switching back to No edition, never deletes or rewrites templates, columns, fields, folders or forms you already have. Nothing you've built is at risk here.

The starter pack

The moment you choose an edition, TribeNest offers to install the starter pack that goes with it, in a dialog titled Install the starter pack?

The dialog lists exactly what would be created before it creates anything:

The matter template the edition uses, named, with its board columns underneath.
The milestones that kind of work runs through.
The matter fields, meaning the custom fields that kind of work needs.
The case-file folders each piece of work should arrive with.
The intake form, named, with its questions listed out.
The party roles used on that kind of work.

Two badges at the top tell you the language the pack will be written in and the currency it uses. Anything already in your workspace is marked as such, so you can see what's genuinely new.

Then choose:

Install the pack to create it all.
Not now to leave your workspace exactly as it is.

When the install finishes, you get a short report: how many items were added, and how many were already there and left alone. Click Done to close.

Running it again is safe

If you clicked Not now and changed your mind, or an install didn't finish, open the Edition dropdown and pick the edition again to get the offer back. Every item is checked before it's created, so a second run only creates what's missing. That also makes it the right way to finish a half-done install. A ? on the pack explains this on screen.

Workspace language

The Workspace language dropdown decides what language TribeNest writes things in: matter templates, board columns, field labels, and everything else it creates on your behalf. English and German are available.

This is not the same as the language switcher at the top of the dashboard.

Setting	What it controls	Who it applies to
The switcher in the top bar	What the dashboard says to you as you click around	Just you. Every person picks their own.
Workspace language	The language things are created in	The whole workspace

A ? beside the label spells out the difference where you're standing.

Existing items keep the language they were written in

Things TribeNest has already created are yours now, so it doesn't go back and rewrite them. Change this setting and everything created from that point on uses the new language, while what already exists stays as it is. If you want an existing template in the new language, rename it yourself.

Change the dropdown and it saves straight away, with a short confirmation.

Setting it up in the right order

If you're doing this for the first time, a little order saves you work:

Set the workspace language first. It decides the language everything created after it is written in, including a starter pack.
Then pick the edition, and accept the starter pack when it's offered.
Then adapt what you got. The pack is a starting point, not a finished setup. Rename a column, add a field, delete a folder you don't need.

Doing it the other way round leaves you with a pack in the wrong language and a rename job.

Where to go next

Change the name fans see → profile settings
Set the address that backs your invoices → business address
Connect a card processor and pick your currency → payment setup