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Organization administrators have full control over organization-level settings, including registering applications and managing access. Assign this role carefully; at least one administrator must remain active at all times. For more information on organization administrators, see Organizations.

Prerequisites

  • You must be an existing organization administrator to add or remove other administrators.
  • The users you want to add must have signed in to the organization at least once.
If your organization has no administrators yet, contact your Cognite representative and share the user IDs of the users who should become organization administrators. To find a user ID, select the username in the bottom-left corner of the sidebar and select Manage account.

Add an organization administrator

1

Open the Admins tab

Sign in to Cognite Data Fusion as an organization administrator and select the Admin workspace.Navigate to My organization > Admins.
2

Add an admin

Select Add admin.In the Add admin dialog, open the dropdown and select the user you want to add as an organization administrator.
3

Confirm

Select Add to grant organization administrator access.The user appears in the list of organization administrators with their name, email, and user ID, and can manage organization-level settings.

Remove an organization administrator

1

Open the Admins tab

In the Admin workspace, select My organization > Admins.
2

Remove the admin

Find the administrator in the list, open the row menu (), and select Remove as admin.Confirm the removal when prompted.
Make sure at least one organization administrator remains. If you remove the last organization admin, no one in your organization can manage organization settings.

Further reading

Last modified on August 6, 2026