n8n-docs/docs/user-management/rbac/projects.md

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howto	RBAC projects	Understand how n8n uses project for RBAC. Learn how to create and manage projects.

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n8n uses projects to group workflows and credentials, and assigns roles to users in each project. This means that a single user can have different roles in different projects, giving them different levels of access.

Create a project

Instance owners and instance admins can create projects.

To create a project:

1. Select Add project.
2. Fill out the project settings.
3. Select Save.

Add and remove users in a project

Project admins can add and remove users.

To add a user to a project:

1. Select the project.
2. Select Project settings.
3. Under Project members, browse for users or search by username or email address.
4. Select the user you want to add.
5. Check the role type and change it if needed.
6. Select Save.

To remove a user from a project:

1. Select the project.
2. Select Project settings.
3. In the role type dropdown for the user you want to remove, select Remove access.
4. Select Save.

Delete a project

To delete a project:

1. Select the project.
2. Select Project settings.
3. Select Delete project.
4. Choose what to do with the workflows and credentials. You can select:
   • Transfer its workflows and credentials to another project: n8n prompts you to choose a project to move the data to.
   • Delete its workflows and credentials: n8n prompts you to confirm that you want to delete all the data in the project.

Using external secrets in projects

To use external secrets in a project, you must have an instance owner or instance admin as a member of the project.