Manage your research group — control who can see and use shared datasets, recipes, and notebooks within your team.
A Group Admin is a normal user with additional authority over a specific user group. Every user in the Workbench belongs to a group (identified by a userGroup code). A Group Admin can manage the users within their own group but cannot manage users in other groups — and cannot perform system-wide administration tasks.
A Group Admin retains all capabilities of a normal user — AI chat, datasets, visualizations, recipes, profile settings, connection management — plus the group administration features below.
View all users in your group. You can edit user details, verify email addresses, and soft-delete users who should no longer have access. The user list is scoped to your group only.
Within your own group, you can promote other users to Group Admin status — or demote them back to regular users. This lets you share management responsibilities within your team.
When you create datasets, database connections, AI connections, or recipes, you can assign them to your group. This makes them visible and usable by all members of your group — enabling collaborative research.
| Action | Within Own Group | Outside Own Group |
|---|---|---|
| View users | Yes | No |
| Edit user details | Yes | No |
| Verify email | Yes | No |
| Soft-delete users | Yes | No |
| Hard-delete users | No | No |
| Restore deleted users | Yes | No |
| Promote/demote Group Admin | Yes | No |
| Promote/demote Workbench Admin | No | No |
| Toggle BCC registrations | Yes | No |
isAdmin status. Group Admins also cannot perform hard deletes — those permanently remove data and require Workbench Admin authority.
When logged in as a Group Admin, the sidebar shows an Admin expandable section. Inside, you'll find:
Unlike Workbench Admins, Group Admins do not see the full Admin Panel, Providers, Models, or Visualization Types pages — those are system-wide concerns reserved for Workbench Admins.
Group Admin status is granted by an existing Workbench Admin or another Group Admin within your group. They use the Admin Groups page to toggle the isGroupAdmin flag on your user account.
If you're a Workbench Admin reading this, see the Workbench Admin guide for instructions on managing groups and promoting Group Admins.