# Set up Witness Terminal for your team

> Choose the places and decisions your team cares about, assign workspace roles, and check the handoff before relying on alerts.

## Start with a decision

Write down the place or route you care about, the changes that would matter, and who can act. A useful starting question is “When do we reroute deliveries if access to the warehouse changes?”

Use a place and a time window to investigate the evidence. Create a watch separately when you want Terminal to flag a future change.

## Give teammates access for their work

- **Admin.** Manage workspace access and set up shared delivery destinations.
- **Analyst.** Investigate events, set watches and record decisions within the workspace’s permissions.
- **View only.** Review records and context. Ask an admin to confirm access if an action is part of your job.

## Choose context for the map

Start with the layers relevant to the decision. A port question might need firsthand reports, nearby vessel activity and news. A warehouse question might need outages and weather.

When your team needs its own context, use Sources to review the connection or import options available in your workspace. Start with a file or feed you have permission to use. Check the first items for place, time and the source label before relying on them.

## Run a handoff before you rely on it

1. **Create a watch with a clear name.** Name it after the location and what you want to notice. Ask a teammate to confirm they can find it.
2. **Check delivery.** Set up the Slack, Teams or email destination your team uses. Send a test and confirm it reaches the intended people.
3. **Agree on the follow-up.** Decide who reviews the inbox, who owns a response, and what the handoff needs to include.

- [Create your first watch](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/first-watch)

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Web page: https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/workspace-setup
Index for agents: https://www.thewitnessapp.com/llms.txt