Airtable permissions overview

Workspace-level collaborators at the Owner and Creator levels have extra permissions regarding the workspace itself, which are outlined below.

• Workspaces can have multiple owners.
• Only owners can grant owner permissions.
• By default, the person who created the workspace is the owner.
  • The workspace creator is the only individual with permissions who can update that workspace's owner—after those changes are implemented, either owner can update the original owner's permissions. 
• If you are the sole owner of a workspace with multiple members, you will need to transfer ownership to another member before deleting your account.
• Only account owners receive notifications when potential collaborators request access to a particular base.

• You cannot change permission levels for a base collaborator from the workspace share dialog. 
• Similarly, you cannot change permission levels for a workspace collaborator from a base share dialog. However, in a base share modal, you'll see an arrow icon  to click from the base share management into the appropriate workspace share management modal to change that workspace collaborator's permissions.
• You cannot change permission levels for yourself (or anyone else) if doing so would grant you greater edit access to the data. For example: if you are an editor, you cannot grant yourself or anyone else creator permissions; if you are a read-only collaborator, you cannot grant yourself or anyone else editor permissions.

To view or change the permission settings of a workspace collaborator, go to the workspace share dialog, which can be accessed by clicking on the big green share button next to a workspace's name on the homepage.

You can update any collaborator's permissions level by using the dropdown to the right of their name, or click the X to remove them from the workspace entirely.

To view or change the permission settings of a base collaborator, go to the relevant base share dialog, which can be accessed by clicking the share button in the top right corner of the base.

The base share dialog includes a "Manage" button. Clicking on this button will show you which collaborators with access to the base are workspace collaborators and which are base collaborators.

To change a collaborator's permission level, select the permission level you want from the dropdown menu next to that collaborator's name.

To remove a collaborator, click the checkbox next to their name and click the "Remove x collaborator(s)" button.