User roles

Organization owners can assign role-based access levels to individual participants and teams in an organization workspace.

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You can group members and collaborators into teams and apply a role to that team. Members and collaborators inherit the access role of the team.

Organization user roles

• Owner: After an organization is created, the user who created the organization is the default owner of that organization. Aditional users can be assigned as organization owners. Owners have full read/write access to modify members, teams, collaborators, and settings within an organization.
• Member: A member is a user who is internal to the organization. Members have an organization role and can operate in one or more organization workspaces. In each workspace, members have a participant role that defines the permissions granted to them within that workspace.

Workspace participant roles

Permission / Role	Owner	Admin	Maintain	Launch	Connect	View
Organization: Settings: Add, edit, delete	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Workspaces: Add, delete	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Workspaces: Edit, change visibility	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Members: Add, delete, change role	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Teams: Add, edit, delete	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Teams: Members: Add, remove	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Teams: Workspaces: Add, remove, change role	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Collaborators: Add, edit, delete	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Managed identities: Add, delete	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Managed identities: Edit	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Organization: Managed identities: Users: Manage credentials	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Settings: Studios: Edit session lifespan	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Settings: Labels & Resource Labels: Add, edit, delete	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Compute environments: Add, rename, make primary, duplicate, delete	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Actions: Add, edit, delete	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Credentials: Add, edit, delete	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Secrets: Add, edit, delete	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Participants: Add, remove, change role	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Pipelines: Launch	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Workspace: Pipelines: View	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Workspace: Pipelines: Define input/output parameters	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Workspace: Pipelines: Modify execution configurations	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Pipelines: Add, edit, duplicate, delete	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Workspace: Pipelines: Modify resource labels	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Pipelines: Run: Apply labels, relaunch, save as new pipeline	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Pipelines: Run: Resume, delete, star (favourite)	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Workspace: Pipelines: Modify resource labels	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Datasets: Add, edit	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Workspace: Datasets: Delete	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Data Explorer: Upload, download, preview data	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Data Explorer: Attach, edit, remove buckets	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Data Explorer: Hide/unhide buckets	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Data Explorer: Edit bucket metadata	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Studios: Add, edit, delete a studio	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Studios: List/search/view studios	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Workspace: Studios: Connect to a running session	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Workspace: Studios: Add, edit, delete studio	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Studios: Edit studio resource labels	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Studios: Start, stop studio session	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Studios: Add as new (duplicate studio)	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: Studios: Checkpoints: Edit studio checkpoint name	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Workspace: View (read-only) resources	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

Role inheritance

If a user is concurrently assigned to a workspace as both a named participant and member of a team, Seqera assigns the higher of the two privilege sets.

Example:

• If the participant role is Launch and the team role is Admin, the user will have Admin rights.
• If the participant role is Admin and the team role is Launch, the user will have Admin rights.
• If the participant role is Launch and the team role is Launch, the user will have Launch rights.

As a best practice, use teams as the primary vehicle for assigning rights within a workspace and only add named participants when one-off privilege escalations are deemed necessary.