How to Manage Pieces

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Overview

Pieces are the building blocks of Activepieces — they are integrations and connectors (like Google Sheets, Slack, OpenAI, etc.) that users can use in their automation flows.

As a platform administrator, you have full control over which pieces are available to your users. This allows you to:

• Enforce security policies by restricting access to certain integrations
• Simplify the user experience by showing only relevant pieces for your use case
• Deploy custom/private pieces that are specific to your organization

There are two levels of piece management:

Level	Who Can Manage	Scope
Platform Level	Platform Admin	Install and remove across the entire platform
Project Level	Project Admin	Show/hide specific pieces for specfic project

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Platform-Level Management

Platform administrators can manage pieces for the entire Activepieces instance from Platform Admin → Setup → Pieces.

Project-Level Management

Project administrators can further restrict which pieces are available within their specific project. This is useful when different teams or projects need access to different integrations.

Show/Hide Pieces in a Project

<Steps> <Step title="Open Project Settings"> Navigate to your project and go to **Settings → Pieces**. </Step> <Step title="Configure Visibility"> You'll see a list of all pieces installed on the platform. Toggle the visibility for each piece: - **Enabled**: Users in this project can use the piece - **Disabled**: The piece is hidden from users in this project </Step> <Step title="Save Changes"> Changes take effect immediately — users will only see the enabled pieces when building their flows. </Step> </Steps>

<Note> Project-level settings can only **hide** pieces that are installed at the platform level. You cannot add pieces at the project level that aren't already installed on the platform. </Note>

Install Private Pieces

<Tip> For detailed instructions on building custom pieces, check the [Building Pieces](/build-pieces/building-pieces/overview) documentation. </Tip>

If you've built a custom piece for your organization, you can upload it directly as a tarball (.tgz) file.

<Steps> <Step title="Build Your Piece"> Build your piece using the Activepieces CLI: ```bash npm run pieces -- build --name=your-piece-name ``` This generates a tarball in `dist/packages/pieces/your-piece-name`. </Step> <Step title="Navigate to Pieces Settings"> Go to **Platform Admin → Setup → Pieces** and click **Install Piece**. </Step> <Step title="Select File Upload"> Choose **Upload File** as the installation source. </Step> <Step title="Upload the Tarball"> Select the `.tgz` file from your build output and upload it. </Step> </Steps>