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# Workspace members and external users

> Invite people to a workspace, control what they can access, and review the external users across all of its apps.

## Overview

A [workspace](/help/platform/getting-started/workspaces) holds one database plus the apps and forms built on it. Two different groups of people can reach it, and they're managed separately:

* **Members** are people in your organization who build or use the workspace. They can open the database, the editor, and any [internal app](/help/platform/access/internal-apps) they've been given access to.
* **External users** are people outside your organization who signed up to the workspace's [public apps](/help/platform/access/share-to-web). They never see the database or the editor.

## Open the Members page

From a workspace, open `Members`. The page has separate tabs for members and external users.

## Invite a member

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the Members tab">
    From the workspace, open `Members` and stay on the `Members` tab.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add people">
    Enter the email addresses of the people you want to add. They'll be invited to your organization if they aren't in it already.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set what they can do">
    Choose `Use` for people who need to work in the apps but not change them, or `Edit` for people who need to build. See [User groups](/help/platform/access/user-groups) to grant the same access to several people at once.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Organization admins always have access to every workspace, so you don't need to add them.

<Note>
  If someone gets access from more than one place — directly and through a group, for example — the highest level wins.
</Note>

## Review external users

Switch to the `External users` tab to see everyone outside your organization who can sign in to one of this workspace's apps.

Click a person to see which apps they have access to. From there you can remove them from a single app, cancel a pending invitation, or remove them from the workspace entirely.

<Note>
  There's no way to invite an external user from this page, and that's deliberate — external access is always granted per app. Invite them from the app's `Users` tab instead. See [Manage app users](/help/platform/access/manage-users).
</Note>

<Warning>
  Removing someone from the workspace removes their access to every app in it. If any table has a [User field](/help/database/configure-database/user-field) with **Delete row when user is deleted** turned on, their rows in that table are deleted too.
</Warning>

## How workspace access relates to app access

These are two different systems, and knowing which one you're in saves a lot of confusion:

|                  | Workspace access                                            | App access                         |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| **Controls**     | The database, the editor, and the apps inside the workspace | Who can sign in to a published app |
| **Managed from** | The workspace's `Members` page                              | Each app's `Users` tab             |
| **Applies to**   | People in your organization                                 | Everyone who uses the app          |

For an **internal app** the two are connected: workspace and organization permissions are exactly what lets someone sign in.

For a **public app** they're separate. Being a workspace member gives you no special standing — you sign up or get invited like anyone else, and being removed from the workspace doesn't remove you from the app's user list unless you're removed there too.

<p className="zite-related-topics-heading">Related topics</p>

<div className="zite-related-topics">
  <a href="/help/platform/access/internal-apps">Internal apps</a>
  <a href="/help/platform/access/manage-users">Manage users</a>
  <a href="/help/platform/access/user-groups">User groups</a>
  <a href="/help/platform/getting-started/workspaces">Workspaces</a>
</div>
