Add and Manage Project Users

After creating a project, you’d want to add team members to collaborate on the project. You’d also want to allow or limit their access to project data or actions they can perform on the project.

In a project, you can add and manage team members from the Team tab of the Project Home page. Before you add a user, make sure that the user is a member of the identity domain and is assigned the DEVELOPER_ADMINISTRATOR (Developer Service Administrator) or the DEVELOPER_USER (Developer Service User) identity domain role.

the project owner icon You must be assigned the project Owner role to add and manage project users.

Action How To

Add a user to the project

  1. In the navigation bar, click Project Home Project Home.
  2. Click the Team tab.
  3. Click + Create Member.
  4. In the Create Member dialog box, in Role, specify the new member’s role.
  5. In Username, enter or select the user from the list.
  6. Click Add.

Add multiple users to the project

  1. In the navigation bar, click Project Home Project Home.
  2. Click the Team tab.
  3. Click + Create Member.
  4. In the Create Member dialog box, select the Multiple Users check box.
  5. In Username, enter or select the user from the list, and click Add User the add user icon.

    The selected user adds to the Username List text box. If you know the usernames of users to add, enter the usernames manually separated by a space, a comma, a semicolon, or a new line.

  6. Click Add.

Change a user’s project role

To change a user’s role to Owner, mouse over the user name and click Promote to Owner the Promote to Owner icon.

To change a user’s role to Member, mouse over the user name and click Demote to Member the Demote to Member icon.

Remove a user from the project

Before removing a user, change the user's ownership of assigned issues and merge requests.

Select the user and click Remove the remove icon.

Add Users from Another Project

If the users that you want to add to your project are members of another project that you can access, you can copy that project’s user list and add the users to your project.

  1. Open the project that has users already added.
  2. In the navigation bar, click Project Home Project Home.
  3. Click the Team tab.
  4. Click Export the export members icon.
  5. In the Members List Export dialog box, copy the names of project members.
  6. Click OK or Close the close icon to close the dialog box.
  7. Open the project where you want to add the copied users.
  8. In the navigation bar, click Project Home Project Home.
  9. Click the Team tab.
  10. Click + Create Member.
  11. In the New Member dialog box, select the Multiple Users check box.
  12. In Username List text box, paste the copied names of project members.
  13. Click Add.