Contributors

Learn about contributors in Orbit.

Welcome to Orbit 👋. Orbit helps you create winning products and impactful customer experiences, by managing product strategy, planning, discovery, and research.

As a contributor you will be able to see all of the important product strategy, research and decision-making in Orbit.

You can add notes directly into Orbit, to help product and UX teams manage valuable product feedback. You can also comment on work in Orbit and keep connected with all of the critical research and product work.

💡 You can also learn more about getting started in Orbit in our Quickstart guide.

In this article

• What is a contributor?

• Creating feedback in Orbit

• How can I check if I am a contributor?

• How can I change my user role?

What is a contributor?

What is a contributor: A contributor is a role in Orbit with access to product and customer feedback, and view-only access to the rest of Orbit. Contributors can create product insights, feedback and customer requests in the form of notes. A contributor has read access and can make comments in Orbit. A contributor can also create and edit their own notes in the feedback section.

Creating feedback in Orbit

Contributors in Orbit can submit product feedback via notes in Orbit. Learn more about Orbit's feedback feature.

Notes are individual pieces of product feedback. You can add notes manually by creating a new note in Orbit. When creating a note you can add a description, source, tag personas, add labels and more.

Document notes and create feedback in the feedback section.

How can I check if I am a contributor?

You can check if you are a viewer by navigating to the settings page and checking your role under the members tab.

How can I change my user role?

To change your user role, you will need to contact your admin. If you can't contact your creator admin, you can reach out to support via the help section or email [email protected]