Collaboration Overview
HVAKR supports real-time collaboration, allowing multiple team members to work on projects simultaneously.
Collaboration Features
Section titled “Collaboration Features”Project Sharing
Section titled “Project Sharing”Share projects with team members:
- Invite by email
- Set permission levels
- Manage access
Learn more about Sharing Projects
Real-Time Collaboration
Section titled “Real-Time Collaboration”Work together simultaneously:
- See who’s online
- View live cursors, once you turn them on for yourself — they are off by default
- Instant updates, with no manual save
Learn more about Real-Time Collaboration
Team Collaboration
Section titled “Team Collaboration”Organization Accounts
Section titled “Organization Accounts”Organizations centralize billing and AI credits, not project access:
- One subscription, invoice history, and AI credit pool for the whole organization
- Organization membership alone does not grant access to any project — access is always granted per project, either by inviting an email or using Add My Organization (see Sharing Projects)
Project-Level Sharing
Section titled “Project-Level Sharing”For individual projects:
- Share specific projects
- Control per-project access
- Works with external collaborators
Permission Levels
Section titled “Permission Levels”Each collaborator has one of four roles. See Sharing Projects for how to assign them.
Owner and Admin
Section titled “Owner and Admin”Owner and Admin have the same project capabilities:
- Edit all content
- Run calculations and generate reports
- Manage sharing and change any collaborator’s role
- Delete the project
Every project must have at least one Owner. HVAKR blocks changing or removing the sole Owner’s role — even for an Admin — until you promote a second Owner.
Member
Section titled “Member”Can modify the project:
- Edit spaces and systems
- Run calculations
- Generate reports
Viewer
Section titled “Viewer”Read-only access to project data:
- View all content
- Cannot change project data — an edit shows You do not have the permissions to edit! instead
- Can download existing exports, but cannot create new ones
- Can still post in Chat — the one write the Viewer role keeps, on any licensed plan
Communication
Section titled “Communication”Chat is the single project conversation. Comments are not a separate feature — commenting on an element opens Chat with that element attached, and both go to the same project message history:
- Project-level messages, grouped by day and searchable
- @mention a teammate to loop them in
- Element feedback — right-click a space, zone, or system and choose Add Comment to open Chat with that item attached
- Threaded replies
See Real-Time Collaboration for the full Chat behavior and its license requirement.
Collaboration Tips
Section titled “Collaboration Tips”Before Sharing
Section titled “Before Sharing”- Set up the project structure
- Establish naming conventions
- Define who does what
While Collaborating
Section titled “While Collaborating”- Communicate about active work
- Avoid editing same areas simultaneously
- Use comments for async feedback
Best Practices
Section titled “Best Practices”- Clear ownership of sections
- Review changes together
- Give external reviewers Viewer, then upgrade to Member when they need to edit