Collaborator
object type
A Collaborator — the strictly-scoped NON-ACCOUNT access identity: the User-adjacent NEVER-OWNER identity for EXTERNALLY-ORIGINATED parties (outside accountant/bookkeeper, agency, consultant, an integration partner's human operator, a scoped helper) granted limited access to ONE org group without being a merchant Account. Group-scoped like the Consumer (parentId === rootId — per-group NOT global; the same firm at two merchant groups = two records; federated identity is the lock's flagged-not-now). THE THREE DISTINCTIONS FROM A USER: (1) no merchant Account (its own identity + credential + session class) · (2) NO OWNERSHIP EVER (owners are Account-only structural links — there is no Collaborator state in which ownership is permitted) · (3) externally-originated (invited, not part of the merchant's principal hierarchy). Access = STRICTLY the Roles-per-org mechanism Users ride. the identity-marker rule (the Consumer burn class): the (group × normalized email) UNIQ marker IS the login index — a live/inactive holder refuses CONFLICT/IDENTITY_TAKEN; on erase (doom) the identifiers BURN within the group. Credentials NEVER ride this record: a created Collaborator is born active but CREDENTIAL-LESS — issueCollaboratorInvite mints the show-once bootstrap token, acceptCollaboratorInvite redeems it into the argon2id credential (the invite handshake is a credential-store bootstrap, NOT an FSM state — the lock's chosen lean; NO staff password-set lane EVER — recovery = re-invite rotation). Self-service rides the COLLABORATOR SESSION channel (collaboratorLogin + descriptor-gated ops); staff manage via THIS face. SEARCHABLE (the book law).
Fields
| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
id | ID ID! | The record’s id — a UUID the platform assigned when the record was created; every reference to this record uses it. |
sysId | String String! | The group-scoped human-facing system id (CX-…). |
type | String String! | The kind of record — always Collaborator here. |
caption | String String! | The record’s display name — what people see it called. |
status | String String! | The FSM state: active | inactive | doomed. |
parentId | ID ID! | The parent org group; for a Collaborator parentId === rootId. |
rootId | ID ID! | The org-group family root. |
createdAt | String String! | When the record was created, as a UTC timestamp. |
updatedAt | String String! | When the record last changed, as a UTC timestamp. |
revisionNum | Int Int! | How many times this record has been edited; the first save is 0. |
revision | ID ID! | The OCC revision token — supply it on every mutation of this record; rotates on every write. |
refCaptions | RefCaption [RefCaption!]! | The server-composed captions of this record's declared references (the referenced-caption rule) — one row per referenced id; see RefCaption. |
email | String String! | The login identity — stored NORMALIZED (trim + lowercase, the class); the (group × email) UNIQ marker rides it. |
displayName | String | The external party's display name; absent ⇒ the caption carries the identity line (the normalized email). NO further profile block — data minimization. |
orgRoles | UserOrgRoles [UserOrgRoles!]! | No further notes. |