Admin Setup
Prepare your organization, providers, repository, and team before developers start using CodeLantern.
Admin setup takes place in the CodeLantern portal. You connect the services your team uses and tell CodeLantern where a repository's issues and source code live.
If your organization and repository are already configured, continue with Developer Setup.
What you'll need
- An admin role in your CodeLantern organization, or an invite code from CodeLantern to create a new organization.
- Permission to authorize the providers your team uses and access the intended repositories and projects.
- A repository and the project or team where its issues will live.
If you need access to create an organization, contact CodeLantern.
1. Create or select your organization
Sign in to the portal with GitHub or an email sign-in code. Select your existing organization, or create one using its name and the invite code supplied by CodeLantern.
If you were invited to join an existing organization, accept that invitation using the email address it was sent to. You do not need to create another organization. See Team for invitation recovery.
2. Connect your providers
Open Integrations and connect the services your team uses:
- GitHub can host both issues and source code. Authorize the CodeLantern GitHub App for the repositories your team needs.
- Azure DevOps Services can provide Azure Boards for issues and Azure Repos for source code.
- Linear or Jira Cloud can manage issues alongside GitHub or Azure Repos for source code.
Follow Integrations for provider requirements and connection recovery. Organization connections make services available to the team; each developer will also connect their own account.
3. Register your repository
Open Repositories → Add Repository. Choose its source-control connection and repository, then its project-management connection and project or team. Complete the provider-specific fields and save.
For an Azure Repos repository, add it while your own Azure DevOps account is connected and has Project Administrator access, so CodeLantern can set up knowledge base sync. Check that the repository shows Active with the intended configuration. If it needs reconfiguration or a project is missing, follow readiness and recovery. Developers still need their own provider permissions before they can work in the repository.
4. Choose whether to collect session measurements
Review Organization Settings → Value Telemetry. This optional setting controls collection of coding-session measurements for analytics. It is off by default. See Value Telemetry for what enabling or disabling it means.
5. Invite your team
Open Team, invite each developer by email, and choose Member or Admin. See Team for roles and invitation management.
Send developers the organization name, the repository they should work in, and the Developer Setup guide. They will accept the invitation, connect their personal accounts, and prepare their coding environment.