Analysis + Repository and Enterprise
This feature is only available on our Analysis + Repository or Enterprise plans. Check out our pricing page for more information about these plans.
By default, all new projects created in the workspace are ‘open’. That means that everybody in the workspace can see all projects. You can restrict access to a specific project by changing the access settings for that project.
Get started
To manage access for a project:
Open a project.
Click Settings.
Click Access.
Project access levels
There are four access levels. They are cascading, which means that someone with Full access to a project will also inherit the permissions of the other roles.
| Permission | Full access | View and edit | View only | No access |
|---|
| View the project | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Create, edit, and analyze data | ✔ | ✔ | | |
| Toggle public access for insights | ✔ | | | |
| Manage project settings | ✔ | | | |
| Manage project access | ✔ | | | |
Viewers can only ever view
Note that project access levels only apply to admins and users. If assigned to a viewer, their workspace role takes precedence and access is limited to View only. Viewers can still be restricted from seeing a project by setting the workspace access to No access.
Fully open a project
To allow everyone in the workspace to see and manage your project, set the project’s workspace access to Full access, and don’t add any individual people. This is the default setting for all new projects.
Fully restrict a project
To restrict a project so that only certain people in the workspace can see it, set the project’s workspace access to No access, and add people individually as View only, View and edit, or Full access.
Allow some people to manage a project
To allow everyone in the workspace to see the project, but only allow some people to manage the project, set the project’s workspace access to View and edit, and add individual people with Full access.
Make your project private
To make your project private, set the project’s workspace access to No access, and make sure that you are the only person with Full access.
Workspace admins (see About workspace roles) will not be able to see restricted or private projects, unless they have been explicitly added to the project. This means you can have projects that even workspace admins cannot see.
Accessing a private project once a user is removed from your workspace
Once a user is removed from a workspace, Dovetail will automatically remove project access restrictions on a project if there’s nobody left that has "full access" to it.
For example, if User A creates private project (Project X) and User A is removed from the workspace, Project X is made visible to everyone in the workspace and access is restored to default access.
