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title: "Assigning and revoking user seats"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to efficiently assign and revoke user seats in Code Studio. Manage access, set user roles, and maintain project continuity with step-by-step instructions for administrators and team leaders."
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Assigning user seats
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After your subscription is enabled with Code Studio, you can assign user seats.

To assign Code Studio user seats:

1.  [Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface](https://cloud.acquia.com).
2.  Go to **Manage** and select your organization.
3.  Click **Subscription** and select the Code Studio subscription.
4.  View the number of seats that you can assign.
    
    ![Seat assignments on Code Studio](https://acquia.widen.net/content/6gfik4y8wv/jpeg/code-studio_viewing-seats.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=0b06mk)
    
5.  To assign a seat, click **Assign Seat**.
6.  Select a user.

![code-studio_assigning-seat-user.png](https://acquia.widen.net/content/172aafd0-d3e4-4e5c-8339-133bfd0890d4/web/code-studio_assigning-seat-user.png?h=480&itok=RG2u937d)

7.  Select a role for the user.
    
    Code Studio is powered by GitLab and all user roles available in Code Studio are synonymous with GitLab user roles. For more information about GitLab permissions and roles, see [Project members permissions](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/permissions.html#project-members-permissions).
    

![The "Assign seat to user" dialog box is displayed. It allows selecting a role for a user, with options: Guest, Planner, Reporter, Developer, Maintainer, and Owner. There are "Back," "Cancel," and "Assign Seat" buttons at the bottom.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/5bee72ab-1dad-4804-a464-e52349793064/web/code-studio_roles.png?w=480&itok=iLSUIVau)

8.  Click **Assign Seat**.
9.  After a user is assigned a Code Studio seat, they will receive an invitation email. The user must click the link in the invitation email to accept and activate their Code Studio access.
10.  After you assign seats to your users, you are ready to [create a Code Studio project](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/code-studio/getting-started/creating-new-project) for a new or existing Acquia-hosted application.

Revoking user seats
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If a user does not need access to Code Studio, you can revoke their Code Studio seat and make the seat immediately available for assigning to another user. Revoking the seat of a user does not remove their previous project contributions such as commits and merge requests.

### Revoking a standard user seat

To revoke the seat of a user:

1.  [Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface](https://cloud.acquia.com/).
2.  Go to **Manage** and select your organization.
3.  Click **Subscriptions** and select the Code Studio subscription.
4.  In the Seat Assignments section, click the ellipsis (...) icon next to the user whose seat is to be revoked.
5.  Click **Revoke seat assignment.**
    
    ![seat-assignment](https://acquia.widen.net/content/3a66154c-1adb-4f60-b764-5966bc44f407/web/120f3_code-studio_revoke-seat-assignment.jpg?w=480&itok=aaODGWZG)
    
6.  In the Revoke Seat Assignment dialog box, type `confirm` in the text box, and then click **Revoke**.
    
    ![revoke-seat-assigment](https://acquia.widen.net/content/013f8e9d-878a-403e-87e1-74960632ee23/web/80a1c_code-studio_revoke-seat-assignment-confirm.jpg?w=480&itok=uozc7Whc)
    

### Revoking an owner seat

To revoke an owner seat to maintain continuous access to Code Studio projects:

1.  Assign the owner seat to at least one other user if none exists:
    1.  Identify the user whom you want to assign the owner seat.
    2.  Follow the [standard seat assignment process](#revoke-standard-user-seat "https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/code-studio/assigning-and-revoking-user-seats#section-assigning-user-seats").
    3.  When prompted to select a role, select the **Owner** role for the user.
    4.  Complete the assignment process.
2.  Only a user with the Owner role can perform the following steps to change the current owner's role:
    1.   Go to the **Group members** page in Code Studio.
        
        For example, `https://code.acquia.com/groups/<GroupName>/-/group_members`.
        
        ![group-name](https://acquia.widen.net/content/74db8539-6a10-4b88-a4de-cef16fd2acaa/web/b34ad_a431e_revoke-group.jpg?w=480&itok=Rgm48EJQ)
        
    2.  Select the ellipsis (…) next to the owner’s name.
    3.  Click **Edit role**.
    4.  Select a new role, such as **Maintainer**.
    5.  Complete the standard user seat revocation process to remove the owner seat.

Note

Only group owners in Code Studio can have the owner role. If a user does not have group owner status, do not assign the owner role.