Admin - Add Users to Project

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Is there a way to add a user to a project? We had someone leave our company, and I can’t add anyone to their project. I am an admin, and can see their project in the server management tab, I just can’t make any changes to the project. Everything is locked / greyed out.

FYI: Our Speckle server version is 2.18.5 (so not sure if this feature I’m describing has been changed in the recent updates?)

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Hi @RJCoolpix880,

At the moment this is expected behavior if you aren’t a collaborator or owner of the project, even if you are a server admin. I understand your problem, not being able to manage the project when the original owner of it left, and raised the question with the team. Will get back to you on this.

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We have been doing this the ugly (and definitely not failsafe) way by manipulating the database (Dangerous Play). Not the recommended way, but we had access issues in the past due to colleagues leaving our firm or changing last names and therefore getting new accounts (SSO).

This is the not recommended way how I did it
  • Use pgadmin
  • You need to figure out your colleagues ID in the database under users
  • You need to figure out your projects ID in the database under streams
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  • You search the user id and the corresponding resource id (aka project ID) looking for the stream:owner helps. Modify the user ID so that it is yours and save
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    Afterwards, you can rearrange the project as owner as you desire …

Definitely one of the big reasons to go for Speckle Workspace :slight_smile:

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