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Connections

Connections determine what Alma can see and where it can act. Every workflow you build depends on the connections you set up here.

The Connections section, showing the Organization and Personal groups with coverage counts

Organization connections are connected once, by one person, on behalf of the whole company — a shared Slack workspace, the company GitHub org, your Linear workspace.

Personal connections are an individual’s own account — their Gmail, their calendar. Only they can connect it. You can require it, and Alma will ask them, but you can’t connect it on their behalf.

The lists show requirements, not a catalog

Section titled “The lists show requirements, not a catalog”

The two lists on this page show what your org has chosen to require — not everything Alma supports.

An entry appears under Organization because someone required it for the company. An entry appears under Personal because someone — a person, a group, or everyone — is required to connect it.

To add something, use Require a connection. The picker shows the full catalog.

The coverage card tracks personal-connection rollout: how many required people have connected, a progress bar, and who’s outstanding. It appears only while gaps exist.

Remind and Remind all send real reminder emails. Alma re-checks each person’s connection status before sending, so someone who just connected isn’t nagged. Anyone reminded in the last 7 days is marked as recently reminded.

If the person setting up Alma doesn’t own an account, delegate it to the teammate who does. They get an email, connect it from their own settings, and their row shows Pending until they finish, then Connected.

An organization connection delegated to a teammate, showing pending and connected states

Delegations can be revoked at any time.

Tab Org Personal Purpose
Overview ✓ ✓ Who connected it, delegation, coverage
People ✓ Who’s required individually
Groups ✓ Which groups require it
Tools ✓ ✓ What Alma can do with it, and who’s allowed
Access ✓ ✓ The rules that decide that
Log ✓ ✓ Every call Alma has made through it

People and Groups exist only for personal connections, since an org connection has a single account.

Disconnect stops Alma reading through that account immediately. You can reconnect any time.

Remove from required clears every requirement aimed at that connection — org, group, and individual — and removes it from the list.