Org unit assignment with user groups in Airtable

Last updated: August 10, 2026

Plan availability

Enterprise Scale plans only

Permissions

  • Super admins can configure SSO and SCIM for their org. Super admins have:

    • Full visibility and administrative rights over users and workspaces in the organization.

    • Visibility into on-domain users and any external user collaborating on an org-owned workspace, base, or interface.

    • Control Airtable licenses.

    • Ability to create new org units or grant super admin access, new org units through the admin panel that inherit the organization's default security policies.

    • Ability to configure SSO, SCIM, and domains.

    • Power to establish security policies that apply to all org units, by default. Rules for APIs and compliance tools such as EKM, DLP, and audit logs apply to the entire organization.

  • Org unit admins cannot connect user groups to org units. However, Org-unit admins have:

    • Visibility into specific org units where they are an admin.

    • Administrative rights for workspaces and user permissions on their org units.

    • Visibility into all org unit members, and any on-domain user or external user collaborating on an org unit-owned workspace, base, or interface.

    • Ability to grant org unit admin access.

Platform(s)

Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app

Related reading

Airtable terminology

  • Enterprise Hub - The feature on the Enterprise Scale plan that supports a more complex organizational structure in Airtable with organizational units, central visibility and control for IT, and scalable administration with layers of admin roles (super admin and org unit admin).

Connecting user groups to org units

  • An org unit can be connected to multiple user groups. A user is only required to be a member of one connected user group to be assigned to the org unit.

  • Changes to connected user groups automatically apply to the org unit’s membership.

  • To connect a user group to an org unit, the user group must belong to the unassigned org unit.

  • To control org unit assignments with SCIM, we recommend pushing groups to Airtable through SCIM before connecting groups to org units.

To connect user groups to an org unit:

  1. Open your admin panel.

  2. Click Organization.

  3. Search for and locate the organization you want to connect to your preferred user group.

  4. Click the … icon next to the org unit’s name.

  5. Click Connect to user groups.

  1. Search for and select the user group you want to connect your preferred org unit.

  2. Click Connect.

Once the user group(s) is connected to your preferred org unit:

  • The org unit's current members' list is overwritten.

  • All users that belong to a connected user group become members of the assigned org unit. 

  • The org unit's membership setting will change to "Connected to user group." 

  • The org unit's membership setting cannot change until all user groups are disconnected from the org unit.

Editing existing user group connections

To edit existing user group connections:

  1. Visit your admin panel.

  2. Click Organization.

  3. Click the … icon next to the org unit’s name already connected to the assigned user groups.

  4. Click Edit user group connections.

  5. Add or remove your preferred group connections.

  6. Click Save.

Disconnecting all user groups from an org unit

To disconnect all user groups from a single org unit:

  1. Visit your admin panel.

  2. Click Organization.

  3. Click the … icon next to the org unit’s name already connected to the assigned user groups.

  4. Click Disconnect from user groups.

  5. Click Disconnect.

    1. Users in disconnected user groups retain org unit membership and can be assigned/unassigned individually from the org unit.

    2. User groups no longer determine org unit membership.

    3. After being disconnected from user groups, the org unit's membership setting reverted to the organization's default setting.

Viewing connected user groups

To view the org units that a user group is connected to:

  1. Visit your admin panel.

  2. Click Organization.

    1. Org units connected to user groups display a link icon next to the "members" column.

  3. Click the “X members” icon to display all currently connected user groups. The X will vary depending upon the number of members that user group has.

  4. Click on a user group to show its detail page, which will display individual user data for the selected user group.