Ownership groups
An ownership group controls who can change an artifact — and who can always see all of it. For who can see data more broadly, see Scope groups.
Ownership groups are the stewards of governed data — and for Workbooks specifically, they’re who a publish request goes to when your workspace requires publish approval.
An ownership group must have at least one admin (steward) — for Workbooks, that’s who approval requests go to. You cannot create an ownership group without one.
Viewers cannot be added to an ownership group. Demoting a member to Viewer removes their ownership memberships automatically.
Create an ownership group
- Go to
Settings > Groupsand clickAdd ownership group. - Name the group.
- Assign at least one admin (steward).
- Add members, and assign the artifacts the group owns.
Adding and removing members
- Open the group you want to edit.
- Click
Add Members, search for users by name or email, select one or more, and confirm. - To remove someone, open the group, find their row, and click the remove icon.
Membership changes take effect immediately: members gain or lose edit rights and full visibility on the owned artifacts as soon as they’re added or removed. Access a user holds through other groups, or through their role, stays unaffected.
Deleting a group
Open the group and click Delete Group. Members lose the edit rights and full visibility that group provided on its owned artifacts. No user accounts are affected.
A group’s kind is fixed at creation. You can’t convert a scope group into an ownership group, or the other way around — create a new group of the right kind instead.