# What's a portfolio?

To explain a portfolio, let's first revisit ownership and access in FieldDoc.

If you want to access FieldDoc, you must create a user account with your professional email address. The system will match you with your employer based on the email domain, or invite you to create a new organization. Once you have your account configured, you can fully enter FieldDoc. The organization that you joined will determine what information is already in your account, as all activity records are managed at the organization level. Basic organizations start a single workspace. Standard accounts or users that have been invited to the workspaces of other organizations. What's a workspace?