# Instance Management in Teams and the Portal

Proper instance management, as well as interpreting the events associated with them, is as crucial a part of the process as designing forms or managing the profiles that will have access to them. By completing this section, you will be able to:

* View the forms assigned to you in the roles of ***Contributor*** or ***Manager***.
* Manage, organize, and review received and sent instances.
* Understand the functionality of status indicators and Teams notifications to obtain relevant information for each stage of the process.