Managing user access to workspaces and bases
  • 13 Mar 2024
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Managing user access to workspaces and bases

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Article Summary

Plan availability

Business and Enterprise Scale only

Platform(s)

Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app 

Related reading

Airtable terminology

  • Admin panel - A centralized set of tools to help admins manage their organization’s Enterprise account. It's a designated surface that includes ways for admins to view and manage users, groups, reports, bases, and more

Managing user access overview

The admin panel allows admins to take actions like adding and removing users from workspaces, activating and deactivating users, and transferring base ownership.

Some organizations take these actions one after the other. For example, if a user leaves an organization, company admins frequently deactivate the user account and then transfer the user's workspaces to a new owner.

Managing workspace users in Airtable

To manage workspace users:

  1. Visit your admin panel.

  2. Click Workspaces.

  3. Click your preferred collaborator group under the “Collaborators” column.

    1. A collaborator's pop-up window will open, detailing all collaborators within your chosen base.

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  1. Click the icon next to the collaborator's name you want to manage under the "Permissions" column.

  1. Select your preferred permission for that collaborator.

NOTE

To learn how to add workspace collaborators, check out our adding collaborators article.

Transferring workspace ownership in Airtable

To transfer workspace ownership:

To learn how to transfer workspace ownership, check out our transferring ownership article.

Managing base users in Airtable

To manage base users:

To learn how to manage base users, check out our users in the admin panel article.

Removing and deactivating users from workspaces and bases in Airtable

To remove and deactivate users from workspaces and bases:

NOTE

Deactivating users and removing them from a base or workspace are different actions. Deactivating users prevents them from logging in to Airtable, while removing users only removes their existing workspace and base privileges—still allowing users to log into Airtable and create workspaces and bases.

To learn how to remove users from workspaces and bases, check out our remove and deactivate users through the admin panel.

Programmatically removing workspace and base users in Airtable

Programmatically removing users from workspaces and bases

NOTE

Deactivating users and removing them from a base or workspace are different actions. Deactivating users prevents them from logging in to Airtable, while removing users only removes their existing workspace and base privileges—still allowing users to log into Airtable and create workspaces and bases.

To learn how to programmatically remove workspace and bases users, check our our API documentation.


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