Admin roles in admin panel: Overview and management

Plan availability	Enterprise Scale
Permissions	Super admins can/have: Configure SSO and SCIM for their org. Full visibility and admin 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 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. User admins have: Administrative rights over users. Ability to manage groups and their memberships. Ability to manage workspace, base and interface collaborations
Platform(s)	Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app
Related reading	Managing enterprise admins in admin panel Admin panel overview Admin panel user details Enterprise Hub in Airtable

What are admin roles in Airtable?

Admin roles allow admins to to delegate specific responsibilities to users without granting them full admin access.

What types of admin roles are available in Airtable?

Airtable offers the following admin roles:

Admin (Super admin in Enterprise Hub): Access to all admin panel functionality, including administrative rights over users and workspaces in the organization, and all settings.
Org unit admin (Enterprise Hub only): Access to all admin panel functionality in the org unit, including administrative rights for workspaces and user permissions on their org units.
User admin: Manages users (including licenses) and groups. Manages workspace, base, and interface permissions.
Integration admin: Manages integration settings, including HyperDB.
Brand admin: Manages organization branding settings and resources.

Role permissions in admin panel

Note
Super admins and org unit admins can access all of the category pages listed below.
All other roles’ access is individually noted below.

The table shown below details which admin panel pages can be access based on each admin role type.

Page	Permissions (Enterprise Scale plans only)
Organization	Super admin (Enterprise Hub only)
Users	Super admin, Org unit admin, User admin
Roles	Super admin, Org unit admin
Groups	Super admin, Org unit admin, User admin
Solutions	Super admin, Org unit admin
Workspaces	Super admin, Org unit admin, User admin
Bases	Super admin, Org unit admin, User admin
Interfaces	Super admin, Org unit admin, User admin
Data sets	Super admin, Org unit admin
HyperDB	Super admin, Org unit admin, Integration admin
Managed apps	Super admin, Org unit admin
Components	Super admin, Org unit admin
Reports	Super admin, Org unit admin
Settings	Integration admin can access the “Integrations & development” section, Brand admins can access the “Org resources” section.

How do I assign roles in admin panel?

To assign roles in admin panel:

Open your admin panel.
Click Roles.
Select the role title you want to assign.
Click Assignees.
Click + Assign.
Search for and select the assignee’s name.
Click Grant access.

How do I manage roles in admin panel?

To review or manage users in admin panel:

Open your admin panel.
Click Users.
Select the user(s) you want to manage.
Click Actions.
Click Edit admin access.
Select the user’s new level access level.
Click Confirm.

FAQs

How are admin roles different from the org unit admin role?

While the org unit admin role gives them full access to their org unit, specific admin roles allow for more granular control over specific administrative functions for an org unit.

Can users have multiple admin roles?

Yes. Users can be assigned multiple admin roles. Because individual roles have individual permissions, the user will have all the permissions from all assigned roles.

Can I create custom admin roles?

No. Currently, Airtable only offers predefined admin roles. Custom admin roles may be available in the future.