Tenant Owner: Manage Users - Menu and Permission

In a few upcoming lessons, let's work on the invitation system.

So, I've just registered, and I want to invite new users to my team/tenant. For that, we will create a new menu item on top called Users where we will manage the invitations and the users who are invited to the team.

For that, we must introduce a concept called "Team Owner" or the person who created the tenant. Again, there are multiple ways how you can do that in the database. We will add an is_owner boolean column to the tenant_user pivot table, which will default to false and set to true during registration.

Database Changes

So, first, let's add a column titled is_owner.

php artisan make:migration "add is owner to tenant user table"

database/migrations/xxx_add_is_owner_to_tenant_user_table.php:

Schema::table('tenant_user', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->boolean('is_owner')->default(false);
});

app/Models/Tenant.php:

class Tenant extends Model
{
    // ...
 
    public function users(): BelongsToMany
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany(User::class); 
        return $this->belongsToMany(User::class)->withPivot('is_owner'); 
    }
}

app/Models/User.php:

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    // ...
 
    public function tenants(): BelongsToMany
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany(Tenant::class); 
        return $this->belongsToMany(Tenant::class)->withPivot('is_owner'); 
    }
}

Registration: Setting the Owner

Next, when we attach a user to a tenant...